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Product modelling of configurable building systems - a case study

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Author

  • Linus Malmgren
  • Patrik Jensen
  • Thomas Olofsson

Summary, in English

This paper investigates a Swedish house manufactures building system regarding the documentation and information structures. The aim is to evaluate how product modeling technology can be used to facilitate product customization. By dividing the product in four different views the complexity of the product can be reduced and each view represent the interest of customer, engineering, production and assembly respectively. The analysis shows that the connections between the different view, i.e. the information transfer, is an area for potential improvements and little attention has been devoted to transfer information upstream from manufacturing and engineering to the customer view. The lack of information transfer can often lead to ad-hoc solutions in the customization process. We believe that successful cooperation and information exchange between these four views is the key to future development and customize-to-order configuration.

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

354-368

Publication/Series

Journal of Information Technology in Construction

Volume

15

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, CIB

Topic

  • Building Technologies

Keywords

  • industrialized construction
  • modular houses
  • building product model
  • product customization
  • kstrit

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1874-4753