M: A crit involves the students individually presenting their design work project to a panel of critics.
This distribution helps manufacturers to maximise their utilisation; downtime on equipment and operatives contributes to overhead, which is amortised across orders, raising prices and lowering productivity.Having easy access to long term pipeline (as advocated in the Construction Playbook) will of course help ensure there is less downtime.
But being able to use down time to manufacture ‘short’ orders or contribute to a larger order (the consistent specifications making products from different suppliers fungible) will also help increase utilisation and productivity, reducing prices;.It creates a more direct link between global organisations such as those listed above, and manufacturers.This is a link which rarely exists in construction, where there are typically numerous tiers between the client and manufacturers, introducing enormous economic ‘friction’ and transactional cost.
Manufacturers are pre-qualified to relevant standards (such as ISO 9001, but also to specialist medical, aerospace and defence standards including ISO 13485, AS 9100, NADCAP and ITAR).This would overcome concerns regarding the perceived risk of standardised components and product recall.
In a Platform marketplace, manufacturers would have to demonstrate their CQP process, ensuring performance of components meets the precise brief established by the ‘spatial analysis’ work.
It allows for both simple, standard elements but also prototypes and more complex designs.We must understand every aspect, including workflows, performance, and sustainability.
Further, it’s important to recognise that productisation won’t solve everything.However, it will give us a starting point.. Marks refers to this as “chaos to order theory,” a phrase she coined after a superintendent on one of her first jobs described his positive experience working with bathroom pods.
The pods created a welcome amount of certainty and consistency in his day.He could count on receiving them, he knew exactly what they were, and he could schedule his other work around them.
(Editor: Heavy-Duty Cameras)