This research proposes a component-oriented framework integrating design and production, which enables customer and designer together to customize housing design and avoid ad-hoc design in order to industrialize and standardize housing production. The component-oriented framework facilitates the reuse of components, quickly configures and assesses of alternative housing designs. The developed visualization-simulation modelling provides a consistent and transparent communication platform for customers, designers and builders, where components flow intelligently according to specific sequences, resource requirements, order numbers and durations. A case study of industrialized doors production is used to illustrate proposed component-oriented framework.
Godkänd; 2011; 20110808 (jarkko)