PPM Timeline

1910 Scientific Management

Frederick Taylor

1913 Bar Chart

Henry Gantt

1913 Mass Production

Henry Ford

1920 Batch Production

General Motors

1925 Application of "Flow Production"

Frank George Woollard

1938 JIT Production

Toyota

1941 Line of Balance Scheduling

George E. Fouch

1964 Material Requirement Planning (MRP)

Joseph Orlicky

1979 - The Product-Process Matrix

Hayes and Wheelwright

1981 Production / Operations Management

W. Schmenner

1983 Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII)

Oliver Wight

1984 Theory of Constraints

E. Goldratt

1986 Six Sigma

Motorola

1990 Machine That Changed the World

IMVP

1996 Factory Physics

Hopp & Spearman

2002 Lean Sigma

George & Lawrence

2008 Supply Chain Sciences

W. Hopp

2014 Factory Physics for Managers - How Leaders Improve Performance in a Post Lean SixSigma World

Pound, Bell & Spearman

1940’s CPM Precursor – Manhattan Project

DuPont

1957 Program Evaluation & Review Technique (PERT)

US Navy Special Projects Office

1959 Critical Path Schedule (CPM)

DuPont / Rand

1961 Non-Computer Approach to CPM

John Fondahl - Stanford

1962 PERT Cost

US DOD

1967 DOD1 7000.2 Performance Measurement for Selected Acquisitions

US DOD

1969 Project Management Institute (PMI)

Organization

1986 Project Management Book of Knowledge

PMI

1987 Independent Project Analysis (IPA)

Organization

1997 Critical Chain Scheduling

E. Goldratt

1918 Scientific Management Applied to Construction

D.J. Hauer

1955 Stanford CEM Program

Organization

1972 Productivity Improvement in Construction

C. Oglesby & H. Parker

1992 Application of the New Production Philosophy to Construction

L. Koskela

1992 Last Planner System of Production Control

H.G. Ballard

1993 International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)

Organization

1997 Lean Construction Institute (LCI)

Organization

2014 Project Production Institute (PPI)

Organization