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ERP, BIM, and Industrie 4.0 in precast concrete production

Developments that have already led to new standards in highly automated industrial sectors, such as the automotive industry, are now entering production plants for precast concrete elements. Terms such as Industry 4.0 and BIM integration are catchwords that are widely used in headlines involving the digital transformation. A great number and variety of industrial sectors have demonstrated this transformation and now apply hardware and software components that have extensively automated fundamentally standardized and, by the same token, highly flexible production processes. The challenge for...

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