Application of Robotics and Automation Technologies to Industrialized Housing Manufacture

Abstract

Current technologies in the construction and industrialized housing manufacturing industry are capable of producing a home in a factory in much the same way a home is built on-site. The efficiency of this industry is affected by many factors that include the increased demand for such homes and the type of existing traditional building practices that are not capable of meeting such increased demand. The productivity of this industry, however, can be improved by employing existing as well as emerging technologies in its operations. The repetitive nature of the different processes involved in the manufacture of homes and their components in a factory lends itself to automation, similar to other manufacturing operations. Other countries such as Sweden and Japan have already implemented automation technologies in their production of factory-built homes.