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December 14, 2012 12:55 am GMT
A bit of writing over at Make Magazine caught my eye today and I thought I’d talk a bit about reshoring and “artisanal manufacturing,” two buzzwords that could reshape the way things are made here and abroad. In Make, Stett Holbrook notes that with Foxconn’s hints that it is moving some manufacturing to our shores comes the tantalizing idea that rather than “ramping up” manufacturing, hardware makers here in the U.S. could simply use America’s unused manufacturing cycles. In other words, there is no reason to build huge factories when, for example, there are thousands of unused manufacturing tools at our disposal across the country and around the world. Travis Good, also a contributor to Make writes: The true opportunity comes when pro makers can tap into the idle cycles of the USs automated manufacturing capacity. As a small example, Ted Hall (ShopBot) is trying to make it possible for pro makers to slip their production needs into ShopBot fabricators shops with his 100,000 Garages. Hes doing it as a means of turning his customers idle capacity into opportunity but the notion can be generalized. We still produce more than anyone, but its automated and inaccessible via the Cloud. Imagine, then a sort of Shanzhai market for components here in the U.S. Small manufacturers could offer small-batch jobs to hardware hackers and larger orders could be completed by multiple manufacturers working in concert with a centralized QA testing system in place to ensure each part was made correctly. In fact, this vision of “crowd-sourced” manufacturing isn’t far off from what it was like in 18th century Switzerland. Watch and clockmakers during that time would travel to the Jura mountains in the Fall and drop off metals and other raw materials with farming families who would soon be cut off from civilization by heavy snows and impassible roads. Instead of lying dormant all winter, these families would grind out gears, hands, and plates for the watchmakers in Zurich and then, when the snows thawed, send the finished product into the cities. In this way many farm families gained valuable experience in making metal parts and watchmakers could build hundreds of watches without spending a fortune on manufacturing costs. The same could be done for smaller batch hardware manufacturers in the U.S. and with the rise of crowdfunding, this is becoming ever more important and lucrative. Why, for example, make gadgets overseas
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Hardware In The Cloud: How Makers Can Help With Reshoring Efforts
A bit of writing over at Make Magazine caught my eye today and I thought I’d talk a bit about reshoring and “artisanal manufacturing,” two buzzwords that could reshape the way things are made here and abroad. In Make, Stett Holbrook notes that with Foxconn’s hints that it is moving some manufacturing to our shores comes the tantalizing idea that rather than “ramping up” manufacturing, hardware makers here in the U.S. could simply use America’s unused manufacturing cycles. In other words, there is no reason to build huge factories when, for example, there are thousands of unused manufacturing tools at our disposal across the country and around the world. Travis Good, also a contributor to Make writes: The true opportunity comes when pro makers can tap into the idle cycles of the USs automated manufacturing capacity. As a small example, Ted Hall (ShopBot) is trying to make it possible for pro makers to slip their production needs into ShopBot fabricators shops with his 100,000 Garages. Hes doing it as a means of turning his customers idle capacity into opportunity but the notion can be generalized. We still produce more than anyone, but its automated and inaccessible via the Cloud. Imagine, then a sort of Shanzhai market for components here in the U.S. Small manufacturers could offer small-batch jobs to hardware hackers and larger orders could be completed by multiple manufacturers working in concert with a centralized QA testing system in place to ensure each part was made correctly. In fact, this vision of “crowd-sourced” manufacturing isn’t far off from what it was like in 18th century Switzerland. Watch and clockmakers during that time would travel to the Jura mountains in the Fall and drop off metals and other raw materials with farming families who would soon be cut off from civilization by heavy snows and impassible roads. Instead of lying dormant all winter, these families would grind out gears, hands, and plates for the watchmakers in Zurich and then, when the snows thawed, send the finished product into the cities. In this way many farm families gained valuable experience in making metal parts and watchmakers could build hundreds of watches without spending a fortune on manufacturing costs. The same could be done for smaller batch hardware manufacturers in the U.S. and with the rise of crowdfunding, this is becoming ever more important and lucrative. Why, for example, make gadgets overseasOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/X841IzVGnAY/
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