Prefabricated Construction using Digitally Integrated Industrial Manufacturing

Modeling Construction Manufacturing Processes Using Foresight

An essential part of the planning and control of any manufacturing system is the development of a model of the key processes. The Critical Path Method (CPM) is the most widely used modeling method in construction due to its simplicity. Discrete-event simulation is more versatile than CPM and is well suited to modeling manufacturing processes since these tend to be repetitive, but it lacks the s...

Digitally enabling the construction virtual enterprise

The construction industry is highly fragmented, consisting of a large number of very small companies that come together as members of non-collocated teams to complete building projects, and who subsequently may never work together again. The industry still faces various challenges in terms of human and organisational issues. The Virtual Enterprise (VE), and other variations of the paradigm, rel...

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Verification of an industrial rule-based manufacturing system using REX

Formal methods are not used in their full potential for enhancing software quality in industry. We argue that seamless support in a high-level specification tool is a viable way to provide system designers with powerful and paradigm specific formal verification techniques. Event condition action (ECA) rules can be used to model and implement reactive behavior in, for example, the semantic web. ...

Manufacturing the Next Industrial Revolution