Linear scheduling method (LSM) is a graphical scheduling method focusing on continuous resource utilization in repetitive activities.

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LSM is used mainly in the

construction industry Construction are processes involved in delivering buildings, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with planning, financing, and design that continues until the ...

to schedule resources in repetitive activities commonly found in

highway A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It includes not just major roads, but also other public roads and rights of way. In the United States, it is also used as an equivalent term to controlled-access highway, or ...

pipeline A pipeline is a system of Pipe (fluid conveyance), pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption. The latest data from 2014 gives a total of slightly less than of pipeline in 120 countries ...

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and rail construction projects. These projects are called repetitive or linear projects. The main advantages of LSM over

critical path method The critical path method (CPM), or critical path analysis (CPA), is an algorithm for schedule (project management), scheduling a set of project activities. A critical path is determined by identifying the longest stretch of dependent activiti ...

(CPM) is its underlying idea of keeping resources continuously at work. In other words, it schedules activities in such a way that: # resource utilization is maximized; # interruption in on-going process is minimized, including hiring-and-firing; and # the effect of the

learning curve A learning curve is a graphical representation of the relationship between how proficient people are at a task and the amount of experience they have. Proficiency (measured on the vertical axis) usually increases with increased experience (the ...

phenomenon is maximized

Alternative names

Specific names for the linear scheduling method have been adopted, such as: *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 versus distance diagrams (T-D charts) *Time chainage *Linear balance charts *Velocity diagrams

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