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The Intersection of BIM and Smart Buildings
The Role of Digital Twins
It was in the early twentieth century when Henry Ford — through the Batch Production System (BPS) — reduced the time it took to build a car from more than twelve hours to just two hours. Since then, the automobile industry has seen multiple disruptions and innovations. Now a new car can come out of an Assembly Line every 3 seconds.
The product itself — which is the car — has evolved from a modest mechanical marvel to a complex intelligent system, comprising an array of technologies, electronics, and materials.
Initially, the automobile industry was driven by Mass Production, Lean Methodologies, and Globalisation. However, with the advent of industry 4.0, the future of the automobile industry is hinged on data-led manufacturing.
Industry 4.0 has disrupted every sector and industry today, likewise.
Data, they say, is the new oil, today.
Products are increasingly becoming servitized.
I mean when you purchase an iPhone today, you just purchased a piece of service from Apple.
When you purchase an Electric Vehicle (EV) from Tesla today, you just got yourself a piece of service that is continuously being monitored and analysed remotely for improvements and maintenance.
Even MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul) services in the aviation sector rely heavily on data for predictive maintenance and analytics.
So, it becomes obvious that…
