The International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction
Publications / 2011 Proceedings of the 28th ISARC, Seoul, Korea
Development of Information System for Large-Scale Structural Steel Fabricators Production Management
This paper deals with the development of information system for steel fabricator to manage its production and delivery works. Each fabricator has different production and quality management capabilities. However, most of the proposed information models for steel construction management have focused upon the construction site for delivery and erection of structural steel members. Moreover, each fabricators individual properties have never been appropriately considered in the development of information system. In Japan, steel fabricators developed their specialization depending upon new projects contracted through their general contractors and their fabrication capabilities. Therefore, the development of information systems to support steel fabricators work should take in to consideration, the type of fabricator involved and their work process. In addition, interoperability with stakeholders, such as the client, the designer, and the general contractor should also be taken in to account. Introducing the surveyed results of large-sized fabricators works and their information systems based upon barcodes, to support steel fabricators production work, such as material tracking, inventory management, and performance measuring, we discuss fabricators information systems and developmental assignment to extend the applications throughout the fabricators overall work stages for steel member production.