Integrating product and process information in the construction sector
Abstract
Collaborative working in construction projects is becoming very important as many activities are usually performed involving actors based in different geographical locations. Recent years have seen the emergence and development of a plethora of visual software modelling tools, modelling standards, methods for wide enterprise concurrent engineering, and techniques for exchanging and sharing construction information between software applications. This paper describes an integrated product and process information modelling system developed to manage information essential to construction managers. The integrated conceptual model is based on information and functional requirements and was developed to model both product and process information in a hierarchical manner. The also shows how the model relates to practice, and presents the benefits that are gained from structuring information using this approach.
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Citation
Bouchlaghem, D., Kimmance, A.G. and Anumba, C.J. (2004), "Integrating product and process information in the construction sector", Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 104 No. 3, pp. 218-233. https://doi.org/10.1108/02635570410525771
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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