Description
Industrialized construction is becoming more important than ever, considering current housing shortages and a decline in skilled labor. Optimizing factory processes is thus essential for productivity; however, changes to lines can be both expensive and disruptive. In this presentation we will demonstrate how a process-based digital twin can help to analyze and optimize a factory. First, a factory information model is created using discrete event simulation and virtual reality. This model is then updated using a variety of sensors that can measure baseline performance. Together, the model and sensors produce a digital twin of a factory that serves as a virtual test bed for evaluating the manufacturing process and optimizing factory layout and resource allocation to mitigate any adverse effects. We’ll share preliminary results from an ongoing project to integrate energy efficiency technologies into modular buildings with little or no additional lead time and first cost.
Key Learnings
- Discover how discrete event simulation measures and optimizes the baseline performance of an industrialized construction factory.
- Discover the importance of visualizing factory processes in 3D to enable a greater level of stakeholder interaction.
- Discover how a process-based digital twin can be capitalized on to improve existing and upcoming factories and products.
- Discover how BIM, IFC, VDC, and machine learning integrate energy efficiency tech with little to no extra lead time and first cost.
Speakers
Colby SwansonColby Swanson is a Serial Entrepreneur, Innovation Strategist and Construction Technologist who has spent over 20 years in the building industry gaining a 360 degree understanding of the construction space. He began as a framer, graduated to a building scientist and forensics investigator, has authored corporate strategies at multiple Fortune 500 companies, and has led the launch of many new ventures. He is currently the Managing Partner at Momentum Innovation Group "MIG", an innovation consulting firm helping clients drive transformation in their business and find unseen areas of opportunity and growth. MIG is designed and determined to help the industry build smarter, faster and more equitably for everyone. Colby also serves as the Director of the Modular Mobilization Coalition "MMC" - 15+ modular construction companies with a nationwide network of two dozen factories. The MMC product portfolio and network of factories is designed to service very large developers and building owners who demand high value, volume and velocity in all their projects. The MMC offers guaranteed pricing and guaranteed timeline with its modular building delivery system. For more info on the Digital Twin Platform visit https://www.momentuminnovationgroup.com/virtual-digital-twin-platform.
Ankur PodderAnkur joined the Communities and Urban Science Research Group at NREL in 2019 with a focus on buildings advanced manufacturing, industrialized construction innovation, and integration science. His work helps facilitate the integration of a wide range of energy efficiency strategies and distributed energy resources with industrialized construction methods such as off-site construction, modularization, prefabrication, and panelization. His work also involves strategizing the blending of factory information modeling and building information modeling into NREL's building energy modeling capabilities as well as accelerating whole-building systems integration in upcoming modular net-zero energy buildings. Ankur gained academic and research training on advanced manufacturing, building energy, life-cycle assessment, and urbanism from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entrepreneurship and economics from courses at Harvard Business School, and architectural and building sciences/technology from Birla Institute of Technology. At MIT, he developed machine-mediated advanced manufacturing techniques and digital design-fabrication methods to effectively quantify and lower embodied carbon during new construction in the United States.
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