This allows us to control processes at both ends of the scale – from an oil refinery to a micro robot.
These ranged from maintaining the current system but fixing the most obvious issues, through to relocation and/or consolidation of laboratories, and optimisation and automation of Quality Assurance processes.. A digital methodology.At Bryden Wood, we say that we are powered by technology as a methodology, a way of thinking that unlocks new approaches to complexity.
Our Design to Value approach to master planning is an example of that.. Our Creative Technologies team has produced a number of digital configurators, including master planning tools for railways, roads and data centres.These configurators rely on comprehensive data sets, organised in such a way as to be codified and machine-readable.The master planning approach described in this article can be seen as the data-gathering and organising part of digital master planning – the preparatory work which could lead, in this case, to a digital configurator for pharmaceutical facilities..
While the data we gather in master planning involves large amounts of human activity and processes, the outputs are all digital to some degree, and the entire process is digital in character, seeking to extract and organise data, so that at a later stage we can establish and apply rigorous rules.This is where Design to Value intersects with digital.. For master planning, this is an approach that is proven to deliver substantial benefit to clients, against a wide range of value drivers.
The collaborative element is essential.
The distance travelled across a project is always impressive, and the destination is rarely what the client imagined it would be at the outset – but it is always better.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.Still, switching the whole ecosystem to support industrialised construction represents a very difficult challenge..
Starting with DfMA.Marks feels one beneficial change would come from the construction industry committing more broadly to seeking guidance from manufacturing professionals.
Currently, that isn’t often happening.However, if we want to shift to more of a manufacturing mindset, she believes it’s essential that we “get the right people in the room.”.