Flexible Robotic Assembly Modules for the Built Environment – FRAMBE

传统建筑是一种低技术含量的制造过程。它主要是在“现场”进行一些预制组件（砖，窗户等）的组装，虽然灵活且可适应客户的需求，但效率低下且难以实现自动化。因此，该行业正在更多地利用非现场工厂制造。这带来了许多好处，但固定成本高，灵活性低，通常距离建筑工地几英里。斯堪斯卡是“飞行工厂”的先驱；位于建筑工地附近或附近的临时工厂，实现灵活，高效的组件制造/组装，同时降低固定成本并优化运输物流。然而，为了充分利用这种制造灵活性，我们需要引入其他行业常见的先进自动化/机器人和配套软件系统，并建立主流使用的商业模式和文化变革。“FRAMBE”项目带来了ABB和Tekla的工厂自动化专业知识，以应对这些挑战。它将开发一种可扩展的、模块化的飞行工厂解决方案，可用于灵活制造各种建筑部件。

Traditional construction is a low-tech manufacturing process. It is carried out largely 'on-site' with the assembly of some pre-manufactured components (bricks, windows etc) and, whilst flexible and adaptable to a client's needs, is inefficient and challenging to automate. The industry is consequently making greater use of off-site factory manufacture. This brings many benefits but has high fixed costs and low flexibility, often located miles from the construction site. Skanska are pioneering 'Flying Factories'; temporary factories located close to or on a construction site, enabling flexible, efficient component manufacture/assembly whilst reducing fixed costs and optimising transport logistics. However, to fully exploit this manufacturing flexibility, we need to introduce advanced automation/robotics and supporting software systems common in other sectors, and to establish business models and cultural changes for mainstream use. The 'FRAMBE' project brings factory automation expertise from ABB and Tekla to address these challenges. It will develop a scalable, modularised flying factory solution that can be used for the flexible manufacture of a wide range of construction components.