Product Data Provision from Manufacturers to the Construction Industry: a Scoping Literature Review and Case Study Analysis

EasyChair Preprint 15498

Abstract

Increasing use of BIM requires solutions for sharing Product Data (PD), generated and governed by manufacturers, across applications and actors of the AECO industry. PD must be available in a machine-interpretable way to facilitate digital processing, but is usually provided in proprietary data formats. Aiming to analyse manufacturers’ current approach to PD provision, a scoping literature review was conducted, supported by a case study investigating a database providing IFC BIM objects, and the possibility to represent PD using Linked Data (LD). Findings suggest that PD provision is limited for reasons spanning from lacking expertise to data management issues. While the representation of PD in IFC BIM objects as well as with LD was concluded to be possible with currently available means, it has yet to be adopted by the industry.

Keyphrases: AECO industry, BIM, PIM, manufacturing industry, product data

@booklet{EasyChair:15498,
  author    = {Benno Jochems and Peter Johansson and Rahel Kebede and Annika Moscati},
  title     = {Product Data Provision from Manufacturers to the Construction Industry: a Scoping Literature Review and Case Study Analysis},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 15498},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2024}}