Precast concrete industry delivers many advantages to construction industry in terms of saving time, cost, and reducing congestion on construction sites. The research concentrates on bespoke type of precast products that precast companies are facing the problem of long customer lead-times. Most of time and efforts spent for production process is related to product design and production planning. To address the long lead-time problem, the authors have proposed an automatic planning system called artificial intelligence planner (AIP). The AIP retrieves product data from the design process for the automatic planning process. In order to develop requirements and specifications of the AIP, this paper describes precast design and production planning processes from a precast company in detail. Data integration concepts and planning techniques that provide development background are reviewed; also system architecture, and components of the AIP are described. The system is expected to reduce customer lead-time, help precast companies manage changes in product requirements and/or delivery dates, and therefore the construction industry will share the benefits.
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