Open Building Manufacturing: Core Concepts and Industrial Requirements

In order to be prepared for the future and to stay competitive there is an increasing need for construction to take appropriate actions to improve in many areas and also to keep pace with current technological achievements and innovations especially when compared to advancements in other industries. ManuBuild is targeted at providing a holistic approach to solve highly relevant problems construction is currently facing. The vision of ManuBuild is open building manufacturing, a new paradigm for building production and conceiving business by combining value driven, innovative, efficient and safe manufacturing and assembly in factories and on construction sites and an open system for products and components offering diversity of supply and building component configuration (on demand) opportunities in the open market. The core of the strategy of ManuBuild to cope with construction's challenges, to drastically improve customer orientation and thus for achieving the overall goal Open Building Manufacturing, is driven by the necessity to completely and consistently combine the concepts of "open systems" AND "efficient manufacturing". By having for the first time buildings designed for manufacture and customisation, using ambient manufacturing, the production of buildings will be taken far beyond today’s pre-fabrication concepts, which (up to now) are little more than "bringing construction indoors". The result will be much more customer oriented, customisable, open, scalable, cost-efficient and at higher quality. To this end the ManuBuild Open Building Manufacturing System is developed, which is an integrated system that holistically incorporates Building Concepts, Business Processes, Production Technologies and ICT Support as well as Training and thus enables future construction to act as a flexible, agile, value-driven and knowledge based industry and most of all to be highly customer-centric, efficient and competitive.

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