They realise that it's not just about understanding the how, because what Toyota are doing requires a different mindset, a different set of ambitions.
Innovation doesn’t respect discipline or sector boundaries.It needs to sit across the entire operation.
We are interested in increasing quality, productivity, timeliness and cost effectiveness.So we have to ask certain key questions from the outset, like: what’s the least amount of material that could possibly be used to build an asset?What’s the smallest number of times that asset could be touched or processed by people?
How productive can those people be?.Our goal with P-DfMA is lean construction.
We want to remove anything which doesn’t add value.
To achieve the best possible results, we must change the way we think, the way we manage materials and people.At that stage, we’ll be able to use the data to create insights beyond one particular project.
Instead, the data will help us understand network and system level impacts.We’ll be able to evaluate specifically how an energy project, a transport project, a school and a housing scheme interact.
Digital twins and federated digital twins will enable us to understand how things are actively performing..Whereas, originally, this effort focused on the capital phase of a single construction project, with digital twins we’ll be dealing with the whole life of an asset, and how it relates to, and integrates with,its environment and the other assets around it.
(Editor: Elegant Grills)