The Challenge: Costly Scheduling Conflicts

In railway construction projects, team coordination and task sequencing are crucial to ensuring smooth progress. However, scheduling conflicts can lead to significant time and financial losses.

Let’s look at a concrete example:

• On a 20 km double-track railway project, a conflict between two work teams (5 to 6 people each) halts progress for approximately 2 hours. This results in an average of 3 lost workdays per conflict.
• On this same railway line, up to 4 conflicts per day are observed, totaling 20 conflicts per week.
• The impact? 60 lost workdays every week due to unanticipated conflicts.

These inefficiencies directly affect project timelines and costs, making improved coordination and scheduling essential.

LPS: A Structured Methodology for Complex Projects

The Last Planner System (LPS) is a widely used planning approach for complex projects, based on two key principles:

1. Progressive Planning – Refining details as the execution date approaches.
2. Collaborative Scheduling – Involving all disciplines at every stage to ensure a plan that reflects real-world conditions.

LPS operates on three levels of planning:

T-Ops: The Ultimate Web Solution to Optimize Work and Anticipate Conflicts

T-Ops is a web-based application designed to revolutionize railway project management. Its mission? To provide a visual and collaborative tool that enables seamless coordination between construction teams, planners, and project coordinators.

With T-Ops, your teams gain access to dynamic, visual schedules, making collaboration easier than ever.