Root Cause Analysis Towards Lean Collaboration Between Production Line and Factory Planning

Cooperative processes are critical in complex projects involving stakeholders from different branches. The need to coordinate tasks and exchange information between production line and factory planning are key challenges for industrial plant construction management. Inefficient collaboration leads to increased cost and time, low quality, reduced output, loss of competitiveness and income and unfavorable image. This paper presents root causes of collaborative problems between production line and factory planning. The study integrates lean project management principles and root cause analysis methodology. This methodology is applied in a qualitative case study that builds on project data from production line and factory planning work environments, including the results of brainstorming sessions, online-survey and comparative analysis of industrial plant planning projects using different levels of lean project management ICT.