Title

The Role Of Object Oriented Cad In A Generic Simulator For The Industrialized Housing Industry

Keywords

Generic simulators; Housing; Object oriented CAD; Prefabrication

Abstract

This paper describes a simulator-based decision support tool for manufacturers of prefabricated homebuilding components. The Generic Industrialized Housing Manufacturing Simulator (GIHMS) serves as an experimental factory, capable of simulating factory performance under various product design, factory design, and operations management scenarios. GIHMS' strength lies in its user-friendly, icon-based, point-and-click user interface. The interface allows the user to configure a factory and specify home designs for production without simulation language programming. The heart of the user interface is a specialized object oriented CAD system. This paper describes the GIHMS structure, focusing on the specialized CAD system, and demonstrates its functionality by describing the development of a structural foam panel factory model. © 1995.

Publication Date

1-1-1995

Publication Title

Automation in Construction

Volume

4

Issue

1

Number of Pages

29-43

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/0926-5805(94)00031-H

Socpus ID

0029271503 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0029271503

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