Progressive house-building system concept:
The chosen concept ensures integration of all processes, from design to production, over a common software platform, ensuring a unique production environment that eliminates the idea of batch production. Flexible 3D design capabilities and close integration of the equipment with design software enables production of fully unique building parts at industrial scale. This allows the plant to produce various design solutions as requested by the customer, without losing quality or time, rather than producing standard housing series.
The approved key approach to the project “Unique product management” was developed from scratch based on the idea of flexible configuration for any architecture design, rather than outputting standard housing series. This enables production of custom-designed products of any complexity, with a wide array of design and façade solutions, without having to reconfigure the production lines.
Production process automation excludes technology errors and reduces risk of “human-factor” related errors. All processes, from design to factory production of prefab parts, delivery to the construction site, installation and finishing of the buildings, are united in a continuous technological workflow under common automated control.
Corporate process management information system is based on 1C solution from a leading Russian service provider and includes modules to manage production, supply, transportation and logistics, planning and performing equipment maintenance, planning and accounting for construction works, company document flow (including project documentation), customer relations accounting module and bookkeeping/financial accounting subsystem.
The common “core” of the system, which passes through all steps of reinforced concrete goods production, is a unique number assigned to each part produced, which helps track each prefab slab in real time. To optimize the time spent on accounting procedures, each product is marked with a unique number that facilitates acceptance of the goods at production site, batching products, sending to the warehouse for storage and shipment to the customers. All products are stored in dedicated locations at the warehouse, which substantially reduces the time it takes to handle warehouse tasks and process order shipments. All vehicles are equipped with satellite tracking, which displays the location of each vehicle in real time and collects a number of technical parameters for each vehicle, such as current speed, fuel level and engine operating mode.
Management information system developed by leading programmers at I-BK LLC helps control all information flows within the company – from delivery of project documentation to the builders and production line robotics to receiving feedback on the installation of products at the construction site, thus implementing in practice key principles of ERP solutions.
