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Paper: w78-2005-a11-1-lapointe
| Paper title: | An exploration of design systems for mass customization of factory-built timber frame homes |
| Authors: | M Lapointe, R Beauregard & S D’Amours |
| Summary: | Demographic trends are forcing the homebuilding industry to speed up the industrialization process through mass customization. Our survey of companies in the sector of factory-built timber frame homes shows that data processing for the prefabrication of houses and their structural components comprises many iterations which generate a bottleneck at the technical design function. Companies must generate considerable agility in their design function to deal with repeated change in orders and to coordinate multidisci-plinary information, while controlling costs, delays and quality. In order to develop mass customization of factory-built timber houses, our study proposes a design system framework, taking advantage of a product platform based solution. The framework aims at integrating functional requirements and constraints in house engineering and manufacturing. Such conceptual work is an initial step towards emulating a multi-agent based method capable to provide proper coordination through proper data exchange required for the processes of the homebuilding value creation network. |
| Type: | normal paper |
| Year of publication: | 2005 |
| Series: | w78:2005 |
| ISSN: | 2706-6568 |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/w78-2005-A11-1-Lapointe.pdf |
| Citation: | M Lapointe, R Beauregard & S D’Amours (2005). An exploration of design systems for mass customization of factory-built timber frame homes. (ISSN: 2706-6568), http://itc.scix.net/paper/w78-2005-a11-1-lapointe |
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