The path to our goal involves extensive research, a commitment to nailing down nomenclature and standards, and the creation of a home for digital technologies and the young workers who will help us to drive the industry forwards.
Xometry has a huge amount of pricing data from which it can generate instant quotes which can be validated or refined with vendors.Once the price is agreed, the selected suppliers produce the components to set specifications and arrange delivery..
This ‘manufacturing as a service’ could have significant benefits for a Platform approach to construction.What can we learn?.Xometry uses a widely distributed network of suppliers who can respond to requests which suit their capabilities and capacity.
This would be a positive outcome for construction, ensuring those suppliers who were local to a planned project could respond, reducing travel distance and therefore carbon, risk of delivery delays etc..This distribution helps manufacturers to maximise their utilisation; downtime on equipment and operatives contributes to overhead, which is amortised across orders, raising prices and lowering productivity.
Having easy access to long term pipeline (as advocated in the Construction Playbook) will of course help ensure there is less downtime.
But being able to use down time to manufacture ‘short’ orders or contribute to a larger order (the consistent specifications making products from different suppliers fungible) will also help increase utilisation and productivity, reducing prices;.pharmaceutical industry.
With pharmaceutical plant design and build, the business aim is to start manufacturing as soon as drug approvals are received, which maximises both health benefits for patients in need, and monetary benefits for the company.Completing the build early is undesirable, as it results in the asset sitting empty.. It’s all about working out what’s most important, Marks says.
Clients can’t have everything, but they also don’t need everything.. “They just want something of value,” she says, “that you understand, and that they understand is of value.”.The construction eco-system and the impact on value.
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