“Design for Manufacture and Assembly” is a design approach.
While none of them is a perfect fit for construction procurement, they all have certain synergies with a potential marketplace for Platforms and it is worth exploring them.. Amazon.Amazon is of course the most famous digital marketplace, and the one most people are familiar with (except Alibaba perhaps, depending on where you are reading this).
But it is not necessarily the best example to learn from.For one thing, the product range is far bigger and more diverse than construction would need.More importantly, Amazon is not a neutral broker, a place where the price is set by the market.
Amazon is itself a participant in the market and therefore sets or influences pricing.A digital marketplace for construction should be as neutral as possible, providing a space for buyers and sellers to find each other, without influencing the transaction.. Xometry.
This US-based ‘manufacturing on demand’ company links customers wanting components (including BMW, General Electric, NASA, Dell and Bosch), to a network of 5,000 suppliers across the USA, Europe and Asia.
Typically, a client uploads a request for a proposal via 3D models or technical drawings and specifications.The report collated cross-departmental data across UK government departments, including the Department for Education (DfE), Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Ministry of Justice (MoJ), and the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Defining the Need examined future requirements against a £50 billion, five-year, new build pipeline.As all of the departments had their own nomenclature for the base types, it was an arduous task.
And yet, once all of the cross-departmental pipelines were put into Uniclass, a great deal of cross-department commonality was revealed.This has delivered a huge body of evidence in terms of how platform design (P-DfMA) can unlock industrialised construction..