Free Manufacturing
Currently most of the knowledge, which is required to start manufacturing of various products is not possible to gain from open information sources. It results in many far reaching consequences, which are still supposed to be a normal practise. It is of no surprise, because manufacturing has existed for more than a hundred years, but easy sharing of information is comparatively new and still in development. Some of such normal practices, which turn out to become problems with the advent of information sharing:
- educational information needs to be bought
- manufacturing information needs to be bought
- people work separately to solve the same problem
The success of Free Software and copyleft licenses (like GNU GPL) is a good example of information sharing benefits. Free Manufacturing is a kind of manufacturing, which is inspired by Free Software. Adoption of FS principles is not straight forward, so it is now a concept under development.
[edit] Goals
- Make maximum amount of manufacturing information openly available
- Identify obstacles for practical use of openly available manufacturing information
- Improve manufacturing methodology
