ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces core concepts of industrial production theory that are relevant in the context of industrialised architecture and construction and thus addresses the question of how the industrialisation of building processes and their results, the architecture, can be conceptualised. It mainly draws on Karl Ulrich and Steven Eppinger's Product Design and Development, Baldwin and Clark's Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, The Power of Product Platforms by Meyer and Lehnerd, and Essentials of Supply Chain Management by Hugos. A concept widely used within the production industry when discussing design issues is product architecture. Modularisation and integration are closely related to the concept of product architecture. Systems engineering is a special field within engineering seeking to respond to the problem of increased complexity of engineered products as a result of enhanced sophistication in their design and the result-ing growing amount of specialised knowledge involved.
