It was the MTC that first introduced us to the concept of Platforms.
This could create a new ecosystem of apps and tools that could sit alongside e-commerce to help clients, designers and manufacturers;.Longer term digital transformation.. Last year, I wrote a. piece on a future state for Platforms.
, much of which was underpinned by a continuous flow of data across the design, manufacturing, assembly and operation phases.The ability of a classification system like Uniclass (or some future version of it) to allow data aggregation at all scales from complexes to products and everything in between, will be exactly what is needed to allow the future state I described, and I believe it will be a key way in which we will navigate the marketplace;.Gemini Principles.
’ set out by the Cambridge Centre for Digital Built Britain state that ‘Greater data sharing could release an additional £7bn per year of benefits across the UK infrastructure sectors’.However, to realise these benefits we will have to use a consistent way to describe assets, as was done in ‘Defining the Need’.. ‘Digital Tools’.
include the new workflows that a Platform construction approach will unlock, including automated and computational design.
Digital tools and spatial analysis are strongly linked; it is through the spatial analysis work that we have derived the rules that underpin our configurators.He also notes that programs and build times are coming down, and that people are looking for ways to modularize and make things work.
All of this requires proper digital coordination.The tier one contractors are trying to drive innovation in a different way, he says, and the smaller players are looking for a point of difference..
Conversations about DfMA are also starting in Australia, with some large contractors setting up their own DfMA plants.However, it really comes down to two, distinct schools of thought.