This revolution is pivotal for advancing the mainstay of essential medicines globally.. 2.
However, she cautions that we can’t just jump straight from our current position, which she likens to “crawling out of the primordial ooze,” to an end goal of mass customisation akin to ordering a bespoke, Nike shoe.. Jaimie Johnston says that at the moment, there are still too many breaks in the digital chain to get us exactly where we need to go.. “We never get operational data in a particularly sensible format,” he says.“You know, the statutory approvals process isn't digital.”.
He says that to get the benefits we’re seeking, all of these other aspects need to be reconciled first, and one of the things that will enable that is productisation.It’s not really “anything to do with DfMA,” he says, or whether it's a panelised, or volumetric or Platform system.“You're miles away from that if we don't get all of these other ecosystem elements in place to support it.”.
Johnston recalls a bathroom pod project early in his own career, where the beautifully designed, millimetre-perfect pods had to be inserted into a traditionally built building.. Aiming for efficiency in such modular projects carries risk..He says that far too much time was spent fixing the gaps between the manufactured and traditional parts.
Whilst the insides of the pods were identical, the outside utility connections were different every single time.
Johnston warns of the knock-on effects of these types of scenarios, where a lack of advanced planning results in a total loss of the intended value.. Marks agrees and says the solution lies in bringing the construction site build portion of projects up to the same accuracy as the modules.. Modular construction.He was one of the first theorists to develop the idea of the economy of scale.
How making things bigger, growing operations tends toward greater economic efficiency.He was right, in some circumstances.
The problem is that such simple rules, although alluring, can be unhelpful or plain wrong in other circumstances..When lecturing my students, I discuss the dis-economy of scale.
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