  Construction frequently appears at the bottom of productivity charts with
decreasing indexes of productivity over the years. Lack of innovation and
delayed adoption, informal processes or insufficient rigor and consistency in
process execution, insufficient knowledge transfer from project to project,
weak project monitoring, little cross- functional cooperation, little
collaboration with suppliers, conservative company culture, and a shortage of
young talent and people development are usual issues. Whereas work has been
carried out on information technology and automation in construction their
application is isolated without an interconnected information flow. This paper
suggests a framework to address production issues on construction by
implementing an integrated automatic supervisory control and data acquisition
for management and operations. The system is divided into planning, monitoring,
controlling, and executing groups clustering technologies to track both the
project product and production. This research stands on the four pillars of
manufacturing knowledge and lean production (production processes, production
management, equipment/tool design, and automated systems and control). The
framework offers benefits such as increased information flow, detection and
prevention of overburdening equipment or labor (Muri) and production unevenness
(Mura), reduction of waste (Muda), evidential and continuous process
standardization and improvement, reuse and abstraction of project information
across endeavors.
