Intensive and Extensive Scalability

Scalability may occur in these ways:

• Intensive - enlarging a component or unit. This is harder in terms of handling, as additional modules are not used, and only the parts are enlarged.
• Extensive - adding multiples of a component or unit. This is useful from the handling perspective, as multiple small units can be built more easily for each unit than for each larger unit. This may not be as efficient from the build time assuming a small team, but this does lend itself to a larger Swarm Build - where the modules are made by multiple teams, and then assembled rapidly into the final product.
  • May be done via layering - adding multiple layers
  • May be done via stacking of modules
• Extensive-Intensive - Intensive scalability attained by extensive (modular) means. Example: stacking of homogeneous parts, such as doubling up OSB or studs to make larger 'homogeneous' parts. Effectively resulting in intensive scalability.
• Intensive-Extensive - It is not possible under the terms defined to produce extensive scaling by intensive means. This is generally ignored - not a useful concept.