ManuBuild - 1st International Conference - 25-26 April 2007
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The Transformation of the Industry – Open Building Manufacturing
25-26 April 2007, at the Doelen Congress Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Conference Topics
Concepts for Manufactured Buildings
- Flexible system topology with rich architectural expressions
- Flexible manufacturing and mass-customisation options
- Smart components with integrated services
- Smart connections enabling rapid, easy, "plug and fix" assembly on site
Business Processes
- Performance-driven production and delivery processes supported by assessment methods and coherent indicators for whole buildings
- New value-driven business processes specifically for open manufactured building systems
- Organisational concepts and models to support and reflect the new processes
- New services covering the whole life cycle of buildings
Production Technology & Automation
- Off-site manufacturing and preassembly: highly flexible, scalable, efficient, and automated manufacturing methods systems including robotics
- Mobile factories: concepts for portable/mobile factories that will bring efficient manufacturing and preassembly operations to building sites
- Logistic solutions: for efficient and lean handling and on-time delivery of modules and components
- On-site assembly methods and systems for rapid, safe, and precise handling and assembly of modules and components
Information & Communication Technology
- Distributed, web-based intelligent component catalogues
- Customer-driven, three-dimensional model-based, design and configuration
- Model-based, site logistics and assembly planning
Training
- Practice based training
- University education in Construction Manufacturing
- Teaching facilities in factory environment
- Virtual simulated construction sites
System Integration
- Open vs. closed systems
- Integration of products, processes, life cycle support and information
