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Collaboration will be key to success, as we begin our journey reshaping construction into an industry fit for the future..

This is distributed to pre-qualified suppliers who have the capability and capacity to respond.A price is calculated within seconds (for straightforward processes such as CNC machining) to a day or so for more complex requests.

Xometry has a huge amount of pricing data from which it can generate instant quotes which can be validated or refined with vendors.Once the price is agreed, the selected suppliers produce the components to set specifications and arrange delivery..This ‘manufacturing as a service’ could have significant benefits for a Platform approach to construction.

What can we learn?.Xometry uses a widely distributed network of suppliers who can respond to requests which suit their capabilities and capacity.

This would be a positive outcome for construction, ensuring those suppliers who were local to a planned project could respond, reducing travel distance and therefore carbon, risk of delivery delays etc..

This distribution helps manufacturers to maximise their utilisation; downtime on equipment and operatives contributes to overhead, which is amortised across orders, raising prices and lowering productivity.They may be looking at things in terms of one particular market application, but not in terms of others.

So, standardisation doesn’t necessarily help us on its own, but it does have a shot of helping us if someone informs it in the right way.. She also points out that, although we could easily fight forever about industrialised construction terminology, the important thing is that the core concepts remain true.In particular, she reminds us that the term DfMA does not refer to the end product.

(traditional and alternative structures)., but rather the choices we make upfront relating to the design, manufacture and assembly process..