Building Product Models: Computer Environments Supporting Design and Construction
Building Product Models: Computer Environments Supporting Design and Construction
Automated construction activity monitoring system
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Improving communication barriers for on-site information flow: An exploratory study
Advanced Engineering Informatics
A comprehensive multi-factor analysis on RFID localization capability
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Implementation of smart tags of RFID technology in poisonous area
ICCOMP'10 Proceedings of the 14th WSEAS international conference on Computers: part of the 14th WSEAS CSCC multiconference - Volume I
Role-based access to facilities lifecycle information on RFID tags
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Information lifecycle management with RFID for material control on construction sites
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Knowledge-based navigation system for building health diagnosis
Advanced Engineering Informatics
The Application of BIM-Enabled Facility Management System in Complex Building
International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling
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Management of engineered-to-order (ETO) components and their related information is a challenging task due to the complexity of information and its flow. Different information items are generated, accessed and exchanged between different organizations and they must continually flow through design, production, construction, and operations and maintenance. Current manual and labor-intensive methods are inefficient; as a result, information is frequently incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable during the life-cycle of a facility. This paper provides a vision of intelligent components, which know their identities, locations and history, and communicate this information to their environments. It proposes streamlining information flow through supply chains by utilizing radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. To explore the technical feasibility of intelligent components, component-related information flow patterns in ETO supply chains were identified and analyzed. Requirements analysis and corresponding technology deployment and testing were performed for three types of ETO components through different life-cycle phases. These experiments demonstrated that it is technically feasible to have intelligent components in construction supply chains by using RFID technology; that status information can be collected automatically; and that maintenance information can be stored and retrieved during the service life of a facility.