Robotic Industrialization: Automation and Robotic Technologies for Customized Component, Module, and Building Prefabrication
Cambridge University Press, 8/10/2015
EAN 9781107076396, ISBN10: 1107076390
Hardcover, 260 pages, 25.3 x 17.7 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
In this volume, concepts, technologies and developments in the field of building-component manufacturing - based on concrete, brick, wood and steel as building materials and on large-scale prefabrication, delivering complex, customized components and products - are introduced and discussed. Robotic industrialization refers to the transformation of parts and low-level components into higher-level components, modules and finally building systems by highly mechanized, automated, or robot-supported industrial settings in structured off-site environments. Components and modules are open building systems (in modular building product structures) that are delivered by suppliers to original equipment manufacturers such as, for example, large-scale prefabrication companies or automated/robotic on-site factories. In particular, innovative large-scale prefabrication companies have altered the building structures, manufacturing processes, and organizational structures significantly to be able to assemble in their factories high-level components and modules from Tier-1 suppliers into customized buildings by heavily utilizing robotic technology in combination with automated logistics and production lines.
1. Introduction
2. Automation and robotics in building-component manufacturing
3. Building-module manufacturing
4. Comparison of large-scale building manufacturing in different countries
5. Large-scale building-system manufacturing in Japan.