This document discusses opportunities for manufacturers to adapt their business processes for the Information Age by embracing web-based technologies. It notes that industries like travel, communications, and financial markets have been transformed by the web, and owners of large real estate portfolios now seek partners with digital capabilities. Manufacturers can help owners track building assets online by connecting people to needed project information and helping Federal Agencies achieve cost savings through web-based processes. The document provides examples of how starting with basic data formats like Excel and sharing information objects and models on the web through standards like IFC and GUIDs can improve collaboration and information sharing across building projects.

1. Information Age Business Processes:
Objects, Building Information Models and Manufacturers
Opportunities for Manufacturers who are not afraid of the web
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2. To profit in the Information Age - Transform Processes
Building industry professionals willing to use web-based
business processes can prosper in this Age
Travel Industry Transformed Communications Industry Transformed Financial Markets Transformed

3. Owners of large real estate portfolios seek business
partners with web capabilities
For example
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4. Connect people to project information they need
Federal Agencies seek cost savings from the web
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5. Help owners track their building assets on the web
Start here,
with Excel
End up with
3D objects
on the web

6. Images and process information
courtesy of Onuma, Inc.
buildingSMART alliance
has established paths
for getting started -
BIMStorm® is one
DoD / VA - Space & Equipment Planning System (SEPS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN-10UsWsSs&feature=share&list=PLVUOlnnVtoOGTNhjDd1FNo4toND_DvtZt&index=5

7. Current processes are disjointed
Still start with
Excel data, but
data is not
connected

8. Information Age processes share data on the web
Data still starts
in a structured
format,
but is stored
on the web
and shared
for the life of
the project
Master
Construction
Specifications

9. How do you help owners benefit from web processes?
Start with one object
António Frade Pina of concepsysBIM provides an example

10. Insert it into a room
Move it, show it in 2D, show it in 3D, replicate it

11. But the most important element is the Information
(Information can be in Portuguese for António’s clients)

12. SketchUp is a cost effective place to start with one object
See one object in many ways

13. Global Unique Identifiers (GUID) for duplicate objects
Share data through IFC (Industry Foundation Classes)

14. The most important thing to see is the data - online
Through this . . .
From this . . .

15. Have reports in many formats to communicate clearly
Each military hospital is to download one dental chair -
Have they all done so yet?

16. Agreements can be simple, but they need to define process

17. Collaborative agreements help information flow properly
A process
chart is part
of the
contract

18. Credits and Links
Kimon Onuma, FAIA, Onuma, Inc.
António Frade Pina, concepsysBIM
Ryan Ghere, AIA, BPM Content Manager at SketchUp
James L. Salmon, Esq., Collaborative Construction
Alan Redmond, U.K. BIM Education Co-op leader
buildingSMART Alliance
Als

19. Information Age Business Processes
Objects, Building Information Models and Manufacturers
Michael Bordenaro - BIM Education Co-op - mbordenaro at cs.com
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