Robotized Lean Assembly in the Building Industry

Abstract

The construction is probably one of the oldest industries that exist nowadays. The processes and techniques used today are basically the same since ancient times. The main difference is the level of mechanization used in the tasks execution and materials used. What seems obvious is the fact that building industry has continuously evolved towards mechanization. This evolution has experimented an enhancement in the last few years. Robotization and automation of the building processes start to be applied not only off site but on site. In this way, using concepts as DFMA and Lean Assembly, products can be developed for their assembly by robotics systems on site. In order to apply these concepts one product has been selected (the Service Core). This paper presents the starting point of the automatization process: the analysis of the traditional assembly of the module.