Pre-manufacture
The Farmer Review of the UK Construction Labour Model, published in 2016 by the Construction Leadership Council suggests in relation to pre-manufacture that: ‘Many different terms are used in the realm of construction innovation including "off-site manufacture" "modern methods of construction" or "pre-fabrication"'.
This review uniformly adopts the term pre-manufacture as a generic term to embrace all processes which reduce the level of on-site labour intensity and delivery risk. This implicitly includes a ‘design for manufacture & assembly’ approach at all levels ranging from component level standardisation and lean processes through to completely pre-finished volumetric solutions. It also includes any element of on-site or adjacent to site temporary or ‘flying’ factory or consolidation facilities which de-risk in-situ construction, improving productivity and predictability.
‘Industry 4.0’ is a term often used to reference the fourth industrial revolution underpinned by cyber-physical ‘smart’ production techniques. It is however clear that in many respects, construction has not even made the transition to ‘industry 3.0’ status which is predicated on large scale use of electronics and IT to automate production. It is important therefore to see this as the immediate goal and to use terminology and definitions based on industrial strategy benchmarks that reflect this current reality.’
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