Integrated production planning and control system for a panelized home prefabrication facility using simulation and RFID

Altaf, Mohammed Sadiq; Bouferguène, Ahmed; Liu, Hexu; Al‐Hussein, Mohamed; Yu, Haitao

doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2017.09.009

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“…This platform was applied in a public rental housing project in Hong Kong. Altaf, Bouferguene, Liu, Al-Hussein, and Yu (2018) proposed a simulation-based optimization model for an integrated planning and control system for the prefabrication of 2D panels. The system could efficiently generate optimal production schedules and the resulting waiting time, idle time, and station utilization data.…”

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confidence: 99%

Optimal transportation planning for prefabricated products in construction

Wang

Zhang

2019

Computer aided Civil Eng

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Prefabrication‐based construction has several advantages, such as short building time and superior quality. The transportation of prefabricated products from factories to construction sites has two key issues to consider. One is how to efficiently utilize the capacity of trucks in order to use as few trucks as possible, and the other is how to postpone the transportation of prefabricated products so as to pay for them as late as possible. This study proposes a mathematical programming model to optimize the transportation planning of prefabricated products to minimize the sum of trucking transportation costs and inventory holding costs. Extensive numerical experiments show that the optimal transport plan generated by the model outperforms the plan obtained by a greedy approach by 10% of cost savings, implying the effectiveness of the model for the construction industry.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimal transportation planning for prefabricated products in construction

Wang

Zhang

2019

Computer aided Civil Eng

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“…Some foreign scholars focus on the application of BIM technology to improve the intelligent level of prefabricated component production process and achieve fine management so as to improve the efficiency of prefabricated components production [6,7]. Mohammed and Liu made use of the visualization advantage of BIM technology, integrated the schedule plan, and guided by the task of the factory, proposed the BIM-4D simulation framework to carry out fine management on the production process, quality, and quantity of prefabricated components in the factory but lacked in the development of BIM technology platform [16]. In addition, Azimi et al put forward a schedule plan for the production of prefabricated components outputted by the MCMPro and imported them into the process of the whole optimization model.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Altaf et al [16] e production planning and control system of prefabricated components based on BIM-RFID technology is proposed e system is limited to the theoretical framework, and the improvement of actual production efficiency needs to be verified Li et al [34] e RFID technology is used to track the construction components and improve the construction schedule…”

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Visualization of Component Status Information of Prefabricated Concrete Building Based on Building Information Modeling and Radio Frequency Identification: A Case Study in China

Guo

Jiang

Shang

2019

Advances in Civil Engineering

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In view of the problems such as the basic properties, usage, and location of prefabricated concrete building components, which are easy to be omitted, missed, and difficult to query in the field management, this study introduces building information modeling (BIM) and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies to visualize the state information of prefabricated concrete components, such as component type, manufacturer, location, and temperature. In the design stage, a new RFID family can be built in the actual model in order to solve the lack of definition of RFID family through the Industry Foundation Class (IFC) standard, and the databases of BIM and RFID can be connected with C# language, realizing the effective integration of the two engineering technologies. In the application stage, through the secondary development of Revit, the information connection between PC terminal and RFID equipment is completed, and the component data collected by RFID tags are transmitted to the BIM model to realize the integration and visualization of prefabricated component state information. In this study, the traceability of prefabricated components of prefabricated concrete buildings can be improved, providing a basis for quality responsibility tracking in the later period, reducing unnecessary waste of human and material resources and helping to maximize economic benefits.

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“…Two papers discussed how algorithms can automate production processes, optimizing planning, control and scheduling in off-site construction facilities. The solution implemented in a prefabricated homes factory is based on an optimization algorithm which enables real-time scheduling and performance monitoring using the production data collected by radio frequency identification (RFID), whose noisy is automatically removed by a RANSAC model before being used in a simulation model and then, integrated with the optimization algorithm (Altaf et al 2018). The other paper uses an optimization modelling algorithm to define the optimal product sequencing considering resource sharing and job sequencing for a concrete panels factory (Arashpour et al 2016).…”

Section: Automation and Modularization In Construction Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When applied to the AEC industry as a holistic system, the effectiveness of strategies involving lean construction, automated technologies and modular building systems has been confirmed by research (Altaf et al 2018;Tillmann et al 2015). Individually, each of these strategies aims to increase the productivity and quality of the construction industry.…”

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Lean, Automation and Modularization in Construction

Brissi¹,

Debs²

2019

Proc. 27th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)

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The architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry lags behind the manufacturing industry, both in terms of innovation and productivity, mainly due to its heterogeneous, fragmented nature and the uniqueness of its projects. This paper analyzes three effective processes and technologies which are carrying out great benefits to the construction industry: lean construction, automation, and modularization (LAM). The research consists of a systematic literature review and assesses previously published work related to the three combined topics LAM in construction with two main goals: (1) identify the relevance of the three topics combined for both the AEC industry and the academy, and (2) identify in the papers investigated the main themes related to the combination of LAM in construction. Findings reveal only 31 publications meeting the criteria within the two sources investigated. The most frequent areas of LAM identified in the papers were lean production management, optimization algorithm and prefabrication, respectively related to lean construction, automation in construction and modular construction. The results reveal a need to better investigate the interactions of LAM in construction as a way to promote the continuous improvement of the AEC industry.

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Integrated production planning and control system for a panelized home prefabrication facility using simulation and RFID

Cited by 124 publications

References 26 publications

Optimal transportation planning for prefabricated products in construction

Optimal transportation planning for prefabricated products in construction

Visualization of Component Status Information of Prefabricated Concrete Building Based on Building Information Modeling and Radio Frequency Identification: A Case Study in China

Lean, Automation and Modularization in Construction

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