OpenLabs - Collaborative Industrialization with Distributed and Open Source Microfactories

Abstract:

Technical progress in production technology, the advancement of ICTs as well as increasing social and economic imbalances and ever-scarce resources ask for new means of value creation. . With the spill over of the highly efficient and innovative open source principles to the world of physical goods and products new modes of value creation appear that put traditional economic strategies and assumptions into question by stressing collaboration instead of competition, knowledge sharing engineering and fostering the empowerment of the people to participate and get engaged.The here presented multidisciplinary OpenLabs concept takes into account these new patterns of value creation based on open source principles and is a suitable approach to increase the overall empowerment and participation in local communities in developing, but also in developed countries.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 794)
• Pages: 470-477
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.794.470
• Online since: October 2015
• Authors: Tobias Redlich*, Manuel Moritz, Sonja Buxbaum-Conradi, Pascal Krenz, Susanne Heubischl, Sissy Ve Basmer-Birkenfeld
• Keywords: Manufacturing Network, Open Architecture, Open Production

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