Recently, the building construction industry has been forced to cope with lack of skilled labor. A robot-based construction automation system should help overcome crucial troubles which may be caused by this phenomenon. In particular, it is vital to propose design for automation (DFA). Quality function deployment (QFD) is applied a systematic aid in determining the design reflecting customer's needs. This study employs the QFD approach to plan the component designs of an effective automation process, and presents the development process of DFA with an illustrative project. As a result, the study identifies the developers' design requirements for automated construction and weights them by their importance indices.
The writers gratefully acknowledge the participation of the research center for construction automation of high-rise building in Korea University. This work was supported by the Korean Institute of Construction and Transportation Technology Evaluation and Planning (KICTEP) with the program number of "06-Unified and Advanced Construction Technology Program-D01".