Manufacturers Data Moving from PDF’s to digital Peter K. Foster Jnr. Director coBuilder UK BIM4M2 & BIM4SME

Introduction 16 years in manufacturing in offsite construction / prefab Implemented BIM within this industry to suit the requirements needed for UK BIM level 2 Masters degree in BIM Management BIM4M2 & BIM4SME Recently joined coBuilder in

Use of Data in the Manufacturing Process PDF Data Hard to find Error Prone

What Data is Needed? Some of the data

Consider other Customer Requests Environment Calculations Marketing!

International and Language Requirements In many countries &

International and Language Including software

Internal Benefits What can the Data do

Data Influenced Stats – 2014/15 Increased

Data Influenced Stats – 2014/15 Average increase of profit per project Estimated

Internal Benefits Schedule / Report / MEASURE! Single Source of Information STRUCTURED DATA Procurement Schedules Commercial

Internal Benefits Project Information Management System Enterprise Resource

Correlation of benefits Data

Supplying Data to other parties How can I move to data to Architects Specifiers

PDTs and PDS’s Product Data Sheet and

“A great opportunity for industry” Structured DATA