Business Development Opportunities for Robotics in Dutch Construction Industry
Koos Johannes
Pages 215-218 (2003 Proceedings of the 20th ISARC, Eindhoven, Holland, ISBN 978-90-6814-574-8, ISSN 2413-5844)
Abstract: This paper describes a research project of the Dutch foundation for building research, aimed at identifying and describing the key technologies for robotics and automated production systems in the building & construction industry. The project focusses on the dutch building & construction industry (housing & utility buildings excluding civil engineering constructions). The main goals of the project are to:
- Describe the available technologies, relevant for automated production systems, currently reffered to as:
- Construction robots and/or computercontrolled machines
- Automated buildingfactories
- Computer aided manufacturing
- Identify the opportunity areas for succesfull implementation of automated production systems
- Describe the consequences of applying automated production systems for the organization of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Develop a detailed plan for knowledge transfer.
Keywords: Off-site construction, product/market/technology mapping, business development, SMEs