3. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Before putting time and effort into applying this process it is essential
that you:
Complete the M2 Compass. This provides good evidence of how
BIM will affect your company.
Check if anyone else in your company is also looking at BIM.
Duplicated effort is a waste.
Have a mandate from management to investigate BIM on behalf of
your company. BIM can have an impact right across your company.
5. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Why may BIM affect us, and should we act now?
•Gather evidence
•Market expectations
•Start within your company
•Then externally
•Competition
6. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
What benefits should we aim for from our Investment?
•Do enough
•Use it develop existing strategies
•Create new strategies
7. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
What should your solution look like?
•Data only
•Geometric object and data
•Or something to shape your solution
8. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
How will your organisation and existing process change?
The most impacted are likely to be:
•Senior Management
•Marketing
•Sales
•Customer/Technical support
•IT
9. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
What could be your quick wins?
•Look at the evidence, Market pull?
•Could be capture of download data.
•Identifying specifiers/projects
•Tracking projects
•Targeted research
12. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
How much will your solution cost?
•It could be organisational change
•Education and training
•How many products to include
•How complex
14. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
How much will your solution cost?
•Investigate
•Start small
•Parametric may cost more but can save
•Consider how you will find the data
•Allow £ to get feedback
•Ongoing updates/new products
18. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
BIM Implementation plan?
A document that
•Says what you are going to do
•How you are going to deliver structured data
And a statement
•Your vision
•The development of your staff
•How BIM will be integrated
•Your commitment to collaborative working
19. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Process mapping and responsibilities?
Will help you to:
•Align your current process with BIM
•Define objectives
•Agree time frames
•Responsibilities
•And Crucially engage with your staff.
20. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Organisational buy-in and change
•What is required to meet the plan?
•Who needs to be involved?
•Are you the BIM Manager?.
21. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
BIM Manager/BIM Champion
Responsibilities and key activities
•Prepare business plan
•Prepare implementation plan
•Maintain awareness
•Ensure capability is communicated
22. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Training
•Equip employees with skills and knowledge
•Internal facing staff will have different need to external facing staff
•Consider 3 levels
23. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Choosing your method-in house and/or third party
•What did your business plan say?
•Is it still relevant?
25. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
We list:
•Some simple things to consider in your specification
•How to define what your graphical solution is going to do
•File size
•Product Data Sheet (PDS)
•Publishing
26. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Define your solution
•State what you are offering, then specifiers know what expect
•Use overview tabs on your website to help and inform
•Work with your external host to maximise your profile
•Ideally 3D and structured data
27. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Validate your deliverable
•Check for accuracy and correctness
•Market test
•Peer review
28. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Inform the market
•Target audience
•SHOUT about it!
29. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Sharing content
•Own web site or Object publishing hosting services
•Capture who is downloading, but not too much info at first
•No more that 2 clicks
30. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Internal briefing
•Sales team
•Technical team
•Handle enquires
•New opportunity to engage with specifiers
39. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Summary
•Must have a mandate
•Plan based on evidence
•Allow for cultural change
40. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Summary
•Implement
•Clear Implementation plan
•Use process maps to engage and define tasks
•Organisational buy in
•BIM Champion
•Train
41. BIM for Manufacturers and Manufacturing
Summary
•Define what you want
•Check and validate
•Internal briefing
•Launch and love