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Open Design Platforms for Open Source Product
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING DESIGN, ICED15 27-30 JULY 2015, POLITECNICO DI MILANO, ITALY OPEN DESIGN PLATFORMS FOR OPEN SOURCE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: CURRENT STATE AND REQUIREMENTS Bonvoisin, Jérémy (1); Boujut, Jean-François (2) 1: Technische Universität Berlin, Germany; 2: University Grenoble Alpes, France Abstract The spread of ICT and cheap low-size production tools like 3D-printers led to the development of open design, i.e. community-based and open source development of physical products. This innovative organization of product development offers a great opportunity for continuous improvement of products as well as formidable a potential for product innovation and incubation of new businesses. However, because of a limited availability of supporting methods and tools, open design projects are still unable to compete with today’s standards of industrial product design. The present article aims at providing a state of the art of existing online tools for open source product development and discusses their limitation regarding the challenges raised by what is identified as an emerging design paradigm. This is performed through the definition of an analysis grid through which existing tools have been scanned as well as a case study. It claims for further empirical research in order to describe the phenomenon from a design science perspective, to define appropriate categories and develop new specific online product data management tools. Keywords: Open Source Design, Information management, Design methodology Contact: Dr. Jérémy Bonvoisin TU Berlin Institute for Machine-tools and Factory Planning - Department Industrial Information Technology Germany [email protected] Please cite this paper as: Surnames, Initials: Title of paper. -
Maker #Circular #Smart
ECONOMIC LEAKAGE AND RELOCALIZATION: OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY IN MAURITIUS #Maker #Circular #Smart 1 How can Mauritius develop its economy from the inside via local demand and turn the realities of economic leakage into opportunities for growth by following the lead of inspiring entrepreneurs? A study commissioned by the MCB & conducted by UTOPIES – January 2019 3 3 or over 180 years, MCB Group has been true to its guiding principle of assisting in the advancement of individuals, corporations and the country at large by Fsupporting entrepreneurship and innovation on the island. However, in the last 10 years global challenges such as the economic crisis and global warming have sparked a deep questioning within the organization as to the ZIV]QIERMRKSJHIZIPSTQIRXVII\EQMRMRKGSQQSRP]LIPHHI½RMXMSRWSJTVSWTIVMX] ERHLETTMRIWWXSVIHI½RIXLIKVSYT´WVIWTSRWMFMPMXMIWEWEREGXMZIWXI[EVHSJXLI MWPERH´WIGSRSQMGKVS[XL A number of more agile and enthusiastic movements are emerging on the island 7PS[ *SSH7PS[ 1SRI]0SGEP ½VWX*EFPEFW© [LMGL TVSQMWI RI[ QSHIPW SJ innovation and prosperity. The MCB Group seeks more than ever to serve the development of Mauritius, a traditionally entrepreneurial island, by exploring new avenues to achieve greater prosperity from the inside out. The question is not to aim for complete self-reliance SVXSGYXXLIMWPERHSJJJVSQXLI[SVPHMRWIEVGLSJWIPJWYJ½GMIRG]RSVXSHIR]XLI MQTSVXERGISJI\TSVXW KSSHWWIVZMGIW XSYVMWQSVMRXIVREXMSREPMRZIWXQIRXJSV SYVMWPERH´WIGSRSQ]6EXLIVXLIUYIWXMSRMWXSVIMRJSVGIXLIWSPMHMX]SJXLIMWPERH´W economy by -
Distributed Manufacturing: Scope, Challenges and Opportunities
See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303386313 Distributed Manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities Article in International Journal of Production Research · June 2016 DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2016.1192302 CITATIONS READS 0 81 15 authors, including: Gary Graham Simon Ford University of Leeds University of Cambridge 57 PUBLICATIONS 280 CITATIONS 43 PUBLICATIONS 144 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Andy Neely Ashutosh Tiwari University of Cambridge Cranfield University 170 PUBLICATIONS 9,852 CITATIONS 216 PUBLICATIONS 2,275 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: AMSCI Jubilee View project Bit by Bit: Capturing the value from the digital fabrication 'revolution' View project All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, Available from: Mukesh Kumar letting you access and read them immediately. Retrieved on: 25 September 2016 International Journal of Production Research For Peer Review Only Distributed Manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities Journal: International Journal of Production Research Manuscript ID TPRS-2015-IJPR-2003.R2 Manuscript Type: Original Manuscript Date Submitted by the Author: 03-Apr-2016 Complete List of Authors: Srai, Jagjit; University of Cambridge, Engineering Kumar, Mukesh; Cambridge University, Department of Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing Graham, Gary; University of Leeds, Business School Phillips -
“Making Policy Great Again”
“Making policy great again” 5/22/18 Brussels Dr. Raúl Tabarés #EMW2018 @openmaker 3 ▌ 4 ▌ Industry 4.0 as a challenging transition • High social importance of manufacturing in the UE 30 Million people, 16%of GDP, 80% of total exports (EC, 2013) • Great systemic implications at the core of the industry 2 Million SME´s counts for 59% of total employment (EC, 2013) • Increasing competition overseas Southeast of Asia, India, China • Technological revolution on the way 3D printing, IoT, AI, robotics, cyber-physical systems • Dominant position of non-EU digital platforms in Internet industries The top five, The three kings Industry 4.0 as a strategy for promoting a competitive and digitized manufacturing industry in Europe. www.openmaker.eu 6 ▌ Challenges of Industry 4.0 • Barriers for SME´S Access to funding, human resources, technology maintenance • Asymmetries between regions Disparate processes of digitization • Need of skilled human resources 44% of Europeans between 16 and 74 years lack of basic digital skills (EC, 2017) • Conflicts at the factory Automatization, surveillance, privacy, new kinds of alienation • The role of industry in the economy itself Welfare system, employment New dynamics at work, new challenges ahead, new cultures of innovation to be developed www.openmaker.eu The rising of the maker movement • Passionate people about open source technologies that are keen on creating new objects or developing cutting-edge projects. (Dougherty, 2012) • Influenced by other philosophies like DIY and the hacker ethos. Pirate Radio, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club • Enabled by the expiration of several patents in 3d printing & microelectronics. RepRap, Arduino • Widespread diffusion of makerspaces across the globe. -
Business Models of the Open Economy
BUSINESS MODELS OF THE OPEN ECONOMY Coordinated by Louis-David Benyayer 2 OPEN MODELS BUSINESS MODELS OF THE OPEN ECONOMY Coordinated by Louis-David Benyayer 3 • Publisher: Without Model • 11 rue du Chemin de fer, 94230 Cachan, France • Printed by: Imprimerie Frazier • 20 € • May 2016 4 Open Models is made available according to the terms of the Creative Commons license Attribution - Share Alike 3.0 non-transcribed (more information on the page https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). You are authorized to: › Share ‒ copy, distribute and communicate the content by any means and in any format › Adapt ‒ remix, transform and create from the content for any use, including commercial use Under the following conditions: Attribution - you have to quote the name of author of the articles and www.openmodels.fr as a source, provide a link to the license and mention the changes you have made. Share under the same conditions - if you happen to make a remix, whether you transform or create from the material constituting the original work, you have to distribute the modified work under the same conditions, that is, under the same license as the one under which the original work was distributed. 5 foreword OPEN MODELS ARE CHANGING EVERYTHING, ARE YOU READY? Software, education, industrial design, data, sciences, art and culture, open mo- dels are everywhere. The actors who make use of these open approaches often question the positions defined by traditional actors. Communities frequently organize themselves to collectively solve issues that centralized organizations come up against. Tabby, the car available as an open source kit, Protei, the marine open source drone and OpenStreetMap are just a few examples. -
The Politics of the Commons: Reform Or Revolt?
tripleC 15(2): 563-581, 2017 http://www.triple-c.at The Politics of the Commons: Reform or Revolt? Vangelis Papadimitropoulos University of Crete, Greece, [email protected] Abstract: In this paper I present a critical overview of the contemporary political theories of the Commons, classified in three main categories: 1) the liberal 2) the reformist and 3) the anti-capitalist. Advocates of the liberal theory of the Commons take a stand in favour of the coexistence of the Commons with the state and the market. The reformists argue for the gradual adjustment of capitalism to the Commons with the aid of a partner state, while the anti-capitalists contrast both the liberals and the reformists by supporting the development of the commons against and beyond capitalism. I make the case that both the liberal and the anti-capitalist theorists miss the likelihood of technology rendering redundant large-scale production in the future, and forcing thus capitalism to adjust to the Commons in the long run. The prospect, therefore, of an open cooperativism, introduced by the reformist theory, holds significant potential with respect to the future development of the Commons. For the Commons to expand and flourish, however, a global institutional reform, based on a number of trans-local and transnational principles, is sine qua non. Hence, transparency of information, distribution of value, solidarity and bottom-up self-management are the core variables of individual and collective autonomy inasmuch as they permit a community or group to formulate its values in relation to the needs and skills of its members. -
THE HOMEBREW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION by Kevin A
THE HOMEBREW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION By Kevin A. Carson Center for a Stateless Society Paper No. 5 (September 2009) Neighborhood and Backyard Industry A recurring theme among early writers on decentralized production was the community workshop, and its use in particular for repair and recycling. Even in the 1970s, when the price of the smallest machine tools was much higher in real terms, it was feasible by means of cooperative organization to spread the capital outlay cost over a large pool of users. Kirkpatrick Sale speculated that neighborhood recycling and repair centers would put back into service the almost endless supply of defunct appliances currently sitting in closets or basements; as well as serving as "remanufacturing centers" for (say) diesel engines and refrigerators.1 Writing along similar lines, Colin Ward suggested “the pooling of equipment in a neighborhood group.” Suppose that each member of the group had a powerful and robust basic tool, while the group as a whole had, for example, a bench drill, lathes and a saw bench to relieve the members from the attempt to cope with work which required these machines with inadequate tools of their own, or wasting their resources on under- used individually-owned plant. This in turn demands some kind of building to house the machinery: the Community Workshop. But is the Community Workshop idea nothing more than an aspect of the leisure industry, a compensation for the tedium of work?2 In other words, is it just a “hobby”? Ward argued, to the contrary, that it would bridge the growing gap between the worlds of work and leisure by making productive activity in one's free time a source of real use-value. -
Collaborative-Crowdsourcing Product
COLLABORATIVE-CROWDSOURCING PRODUCT FULFILLMENT FOR OPEN DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING A Master Thesis Presented to The Academic Faculty by Xuejian Gong In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in the School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology May 2018 COPYRIGHT © 2018 BY XUEJIAN GONG COLLABORATIVE-CROWDSOURCING PRODUCT FULFILLMENT FOR OPEN DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING Approved by: Dr. Roger J. Jiao, Advisor School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Nagi Gebraeel, Co-Advisor School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Seung-Kyum Choi School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Donggang Yao School of Material and Science Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Date Approved: April 18, 2018 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It would have been not possible for me to finish my Master’s thesis without help and support of the people around me, the excellent research environment provided, and generous funding supported, by Georgia Institute of Technology. First, I would like to thank my advisors Dr. Roger J. Jiao and Dr. Nagi Gebraeel for their support and guidance to me with their knowledge throughout my graduate study and research experience. I would also like to thank the reading committee, Drs. Seung-Kyum Choi and Donggang Yao, for their time to review and share with me their insights and expertise for completion of my Master’s thesis. I also would like to thank all the peer students in the lab, and staff at School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, who are always ready to help me whenever I needed. -
Value in the Commons Economy: Developments in Open and Contributory Value Accounting
Value in the Commons Economy: Developments in Open and Contributory Value Accounting By Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros Contents Executive Summary 2 1. Theoretical Framework 3 1.1 Background 3 1.2. Analysing the value crisis 6 1.3. A historical approach to shifts in modes of exchange 10 2. Case Studies 13 2.1. The Enspiral Network 13 2.2. Sensorica 18 2.3. Backfeed 23 3. Policy Implications 30 3.1. Economic Infrastructure 31 3.2. The Political Infrastructure 33 4. Conclusions 35 Acknowledgments 36 References 36 Executive Summary One of the issues with the current economy is what Adam Arvidsson and Michel Bauwens have called the ‘value crisis’. This value crisis is characterized by an increased capacity to create common value through commons-based peer production and other practices of the collaborative economy. In these open and contributory systems, many contributors co-create value as a commons which can be used by all those that are connected to networks, but the income is generated by a fraction of the contributors connected to the marketplace, and usually in the context of proprietary platforms that do not re-invest sufficiently in the social reproduction of the commoners. One of the observed reactions and solutions is that some of these productive communities and the entrepreneurial coalitions allied with them are experimenting with generative business models, in which the entrepreneurial entities co-create the commons and create livelihoods for the contributors. Amongst the more significant experiments are those with models for contributory accounting and value accounting. This report looks at the issue of potential rent extraction from contributory communities, and attempts to solve or mitigate it through open and contributory accounting practices. -
Distributed Manufacturing: Scope, Challenges and Opportunities
Distributed Manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities Jagjit Singh Sraia*, Mukesh Kumara, Gary Grahamb, Wendy Phillipsc, James Toozed, Ashutosh Tiwarie, Simon Forda, Paul Beechera, Baldev Rajf, Mike Gregorya, Manoj Kumar Tiwarig, B. Ravih, Andy Neelya, Ravi Shankari aInstitute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS,United Kingdom bLeeds University Business School, Moorland Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS6 1AN, United Kingdom cBristol Business School, Faculty of Business and Law, University of West of England, Frenchay Campus, Bristol BS16 1QY, United Kingdom dDesign Products, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU, United Kingdom eManufacturing Department, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, United Kingdom fNational Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India gDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India hMechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra 40076, India iDepartment of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India Keywords: Distributed Manufacturing, Emerging Production Technologies, ICT, Digitalisation, Localisation, Personalisation, Community-based Production, Urban Environments, Smart City Production Systems * Corresponding author: Jagjit Singh Srai Phone: +44 1223 765601 Email: [email protected] 1 Abstract This -
D4.3 White Paper Version
-Exploring the Emergent Open Manufacturing Industry- Harnessing the power of Digital Social Platforms to shake up makers and manufacturing entrepreneurs towards a European Open Manufacturing ecosystem Deliverable Number D4.3 Deliverable Title “Exploring the Emergent Open Manufacturing Industry” White paper version 1.0 Work Package Leader Tecnalia Authors Raúl Tabarés, Tatiana Bartolomé, Laura Martelloni, Dario Marmo, Luisa de Amicis, Silvia Binenti, Erika Rushton, Lubomir Billy. Contributors All partners This document does not represent the opinion of the European Union, and the European Union is not responsible for any use that might be made of its content. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No 687941. Grant Agreement N. 687941 Project Acronym OpenMaker Project Full Title Harnessing the power of Digital Social Platforms to shake up makers and manufacturing entrepreneurs towards a European Open Manufacturing ecosystem Instrument Research and Innovation Action (RIA) Thematic Priority ICT–10–2015, Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation Start Date of Project 20 / 06 / 2016 Duration of Project 30 Months Work Package N. | Title WP4 | Outreach and exploitation Work Package Leader Tecnalia Deliverable N. | Title D4.3 | White paper version 1.0 Date of Delivery Month 15 (Contractual) Date of Delivery Month 20 (Submitted) Nature Report Dissemination Level Public D4.3 | White paper version 1.0 Page 2 of 50 VERSION LOG -
Changing Societies Through Urban Commons Transitions
Changing Societies through Urban Commons Transitions By Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros InChanging cooperation Societies with through Heinrich Urban Commons Böll Stiftung Transitions 1 Contents Changing Societies through Urban Commons Transitions 2 Executive Summary 5 The Centrality of Urban Commons 1. in the Social-Ecological Transition 12 1.1. Understanding the global conjuncture in which urban 13 commons emerge Placing the re-emergence of urban commons in a 13 ‘material’ historical context. The political conjuncture for the urban commons as 18 locus for societal change The role of the commons in reducing the material 20 footprint of humanity The challenge of meaningful work in the age of 22 Trumpism 1.2. The challenge of urban commons for the actors in the city 23 Contributory democracy as a challenge to representative 23 democracy The generative economy as a challenge to market power 24 The commons as a challenge to traditional civil society organisations 25 Recent Developments in Urban 2. Commons Transitions 27 2.1. Grassroots initiatives in urban commons transitions 28 Developments in the Global North 28 Developments in the Global South 29 The Assemblies of the Commons as the ‘voice’ of the 31 commoners 2.2. Commons-oriented municipal coalitions 33 The rationale for our case study choices 33 The city of Barcelona 34 The city of Bologna 38 The city of Naples 41 The city of Milan 43 The city of Frome 44 The city of Ghent 45 Changing Societies through Urban Commons Transitions 3 Towards a Coherent Institutional Design 3. for Public-Commons