Abstract
Supply chain management (SCM) has been undervalued
subject in the construction process. Effectiveness of the
supply chain and information interaction, are fundamental
requirements of the industrialised construction having
immediate influence on construction productivity.
Information management methodologies in the construction
are not at the same level as in some other industries
mainly due the fragmented project based business models.
In the last 10 years, the building information model
(BIM) technologies have become common in design phase and
gained critical mass for credible usage as a platform for
construction planning and management, and for product
data management in supply chains. However, the
participants in the process interpret the project
information from design documents differently.
Interpretation actualises in several phases of project
without systematic data management. The use of
intellectual information on virtual model is unsystematic
and users of models exploit the data manually. The
current construction process sets also restrictions to
the implementation of BIM technologies, but the BIM based
building design itself will improve the construction
process and reduce the errors with real 3D design work,
and better compatibility of design disciplines. Now the
accomplishment of all these benefits is not necessarily
possible.
The main objective in on-going research is to develop a
comprehensive BIM based product data management procedure
for the supply chains in industrialised construction
process. This requires the definition of the process and
needed methodologies that the stakeholders in networked
construction branch can apply to get product and
production information in an electronically interpretable
format, and update their subset of this information. In
this paper, we will define the key challenges and
possibilities for BIM based supply chain management
between main contractor and product suppliers. This paper
rests on the observations made in product group specific
workshops, interviews and meetings related to three
different kinds of product groups.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Conference Proceedings of CIB W078 - W102 2011 joint conference. Sophia Antipolis, FR, 26 - 28 Oct. 2011 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
| MoE publication type | D2 Article in professional manuals or guides or professional information systems or text book material |