Robot-oriented design : design and management tools for the deployment of automation and robotics in construction / Thomas Bock

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Advanced construction and building technology -- 2. The structure of this volume -- 3. The role of complementarity of products, organization, information, and machine technology -- 4. Introduction of relevant terms, concepts, and technologies -- 5. Complex products in other industries and relevance of fixed-site/ONM technology -- 6. Synchronization of organization, building structure, and manufacturing technology by robot-oriented design -- 7. Utilizing innovation science to develop and deploy automated/robotic systems in construction -- 8. Competitive advantage by coadapting and taking products and manufacturing systems further.

"The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series focuses on the implementation of automation and robot technology to renew the construction industry and to arrest its declining productivity. The series is intended to give professionals, researchers, lecturers, and students basic conceptual and technical skills and implementation strategies to manage, research, or teach the implementation of advanced automation and robot-technology-based processes and technologies in construction. Currently, the implementation of modern developments in product structures (modularity and design for manufacturing), organizational strategies (just in time, just in sequence, and pulling production), and informational aspects (computer-aided design/manufacturing or computer-integrated manufacturing) are lagging because of the lack of modern integrated machine technology in construction. The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics books discuss progress in robot systems theory and demonstrate their integration using real systematic applications and projections for off-site as well as on-site building production"