PROJECT AUTOMATION APPLICATION WITH LEAN PHILOSOPHY AT THE CONSTRUCTION OF OIL REFINING UNIT

Abstract

The growth of investment demand in the oil and gas industry motivated improvements in Brazilian construction and assembly processes. To this end, the support of automation tools and principles of Lean Construction projects used in the construction and Assembly of a cracked naphtha hydrotreating unit in southern Brazil between 2009 and 2012. This study aims to demonstrate the role of these tools by the Lean philosophy and proposes, from the critical analysis of an empirical study, barriers and benefits identified in the application in the Planning and Control of Industrial Construction. This methodology is of qualitative nature from exploratory and descriptive, by means of bibliographical study with Bibliometric analysis and experimental study, in order to show barriers and benefits of using automation tools to projects linked to the principles of Lean Construction. In this article it was demonstrated the importance of visual management of the enterprise to meet the priorities of work, uninterrupted production and commissioning. With the use of the tools of automation projects, the identification performed, subsidizing the planning teams for programming services, advocating the optimization of costs and deadlines. However, initially, in the practical case demonstrated, only items with high weight on analytical structure of project assembled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]