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'''Linear Scheduling Method''' (LSM)<br />

LSM is a graphical scheduling method focusing on continous resource utilization in repetitive activities. It is believed that it originally adopted the idea of [[Line-Of-Balance method]].

LSM is used mainly in construction industry to schedule resources in repetitive activities commonly found in highway, pipeline, high-rise building projects. These projects are called repetitive projects or linear projects.

The main advantages of LSM over [[Critical Path Method]] is its underlying idea of keeping resource work continously. In other words, it schedules activities in such a way that:

1) resource utlization is maximized.

2) interruption in on-going process is minimized, includin hiring-and-filing.

3) effect of learning curve phenomenon is miximized.

These benefits are achieved in LSM by schedule activity start date at the date which will provide such a continuous work flow for the resource. In contrast to CPM, this date scheduled by LSM is not the earliest posible start date of an activity. ...?

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==Further ReadingApplication==

LSM is used mainly in the [[Construction|construction industry]] to schedule resources in repetitive activities commonly found in [[highway]], [[Pipeline transport|pipeline]], [[Skyscraper|high-rise building]] and rail construction projects. These projects are called repetitive projects or linear projects. The main advantages of LSM over [[critical path method]] (CPM) is its underlying idea of keeping resources continuously at work. In other words, it schedules activities in such a way that:

* Robert B. Harris and Photios G. Ioannou[http://www.cem.umich.edu/Ioannou/Pubs/CEE98_RSM/PGI_CEE98_RSM.pdf Repetitive Scheduling Metod]<br />

* David W. Johnston [http://cedb.asce.org/cgi/WWWdisplay.cgi?5016289 Linear Scheduling Method for Highway Construction]

1)# resource utlizationutilization is maximized.;

2)# interruption in on-going process is minimized, includinincluding hiring-and-filing.firing; and

3)# the effect of the [[Experience curve effects|learning curve]] phenomenon is miximized.maximized

==Alternative names==

Specific names for the linear scheduling method have been adopted, such as:<ref name="kenley2010">{{cite book |last1=Kenley |first1=Russell |last2=Seppänen |first2=Olli |title=Location-Based Management for Construction |page=6 |year=2010 |publisher=Spon Press |isbn=978-0-415-37050-9 |chapter=Chapter 1: Introduction}}</ref>

*Location-based scheduling (the preferred term in the book)

*Harmonograms

*Line-of-balance

*Flowline or flow line

*Repetitive scheduling method

*Vertical production method

*Time-___location matrix model

*Time space scheduling method

*Disturbance scheduling

*Horizontal and vertical logic scheduling for multistory projects

*Horizontal and vertical scheduling

*Multiple repetitive construction process

*Representing construction

*Linear scheduling

*[[Time distance diagram|Time versus distance diagrams]] (T-D charts)

*Time chainage

*Linear balance charts

*Velocity diagrams

==See also==

*[[List of project management software]]

*[[List of project management topics]]

*[[Project management]]

*[[Project planning]]

*[[Sequence step algorithm]]

*[[Time distance diagram]]

*[[Work breakdown structure]]

==References==

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==Further reading==

* James Wonneberg and Ron Drake (2016) [https://graphicschedule.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Linear-Scheduling-101.pdf Linear Scheduling 101]

* Robert B. Harris and [[Photios G. Ioannou]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191337/http://www.cem.umich.edu/Ioannou/Pubs/CEE98_RSM/PGI_CEE98_RSM.pdf Repetitive Scheduling MetodMethod]<br />

* David W. Johnston [https://archive.today/20130414083917/http://cedb.asce.org/cgi/WWWdisplay.cgi?5016289 Linear Scheduling Method for Highway Construction]

* Frank Harris and [[Ronald McCaffer]] Modern Construction Management 6th Ed UK: Blackwell Publishing

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