Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) offers a unique opportunity to refocus an industry beset by problems: low productivity, poor value, an aging workforce and not enough new workers.
And that enables us to try lots of different options in a short amount of time.As mentioned, this is a key element of our Design to Value approach, as it enables us to get closer to an optimum solution..
Unfortunately, we sometimes find ourselves in the conventional engineering situation of having to limit the number of options that we look at because we haven't got the time or the resources to look at too many.Clearly, it is fine to narrow down a set of options on a rational basis.But if it's simply that we don't have time, we are at risk of staying away from the optimum solution.
That means more cost and more time which, ultimately, is going to affect the patient who is at the end of that supply chain.As a result, these are particularly important factors to consider in the design and construction of pharmaceutical facilities..
In summary, Chips allow us many different perspectives on parts of a project.
And crucially, they provide the common language for communication between all the different people involved in executing that project..The concept of a platform approach to DfMA (P-DfMA) has been adopted by the UK Government, particularly the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), who have said they will mandate construction platforms by 2023 for all social infrastructure..
The pre-manufactured components of platform construction (P-DfMA) systems are specifically designed to be standardised and mass-produced by a wide supply chain, like the mechanical components of a car, to deliver the greatest possible factory efficiency and economies of scale..The components can be easily transported and moved, and they fit together quickly and simply on site with the least amount of handling.
Platform construction systems are designed to be flexible and customisable to avoid limiting design freedom and allow massing, form and aesthetic treatments to be considered on a plot-specific basis.. Driving value with MMC and P-DfMA.Construction platforms are an example of an approach to DfMA that relies on both off-site and on-site construction works, bringing the best aspects of both.