open economy society - fab lab as strategic model for new supply chains

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fab lab as strategic model for new supply chains

Open Economy Society

whats happening

everything we have built our society upon is going to change or die, forever

Andrea Botto / "KA-BOOM #05" Pieve Emanuele, 2011

climate (sigh!) governance (slowly…)

knowledge distribution transportation manufacturing

organizations …

why everything

seems to turn “OPEN”?

CC Sylvain Naudin

data content

knowledge/education

source codes licensing research systems

etc…

CC-Alan Levine

it’s complexity, baby (and it’s complicated)

CC flickr user brewbooks

is it changing the meaning of “open/closed economy”?

from a protectionism perspective

to a “collaborative” paradigm

consumer ———— creators

enterprises ———— civic society

profit ———— no profitlife ———— work

overlapping roles

manufacturing changes as well

changing demand

servitization

technology

knowledge access

products as platforms

makers / distributors

manufacturing industry

key change factors

mass customization

becomes feasible (for real)

the BASF SE “customized shampoo” experiment

-7.1 millions jobs

in the next 4 years (vs. only 2.4 created)

World Economic Forum 2016

is this “only scenario” feasible for anyone?

John Hegel III Deloitte US Center for the Edge

Fragmentation +

Centralizationeveryone can jump in almost any business, but at the same time big players are gaining

power

multiple levels and scenarios

individuals / communities / companies / clusters / networks / super plants

a collaborative multi-level ecosystem where smart factories are accessible by smaller players

where SMEs are networked and adapted to continuous changes (not necessarily forced to scale)

where peer-production and open networks support individuals and communities to succeed

smart factories

SMEs networks

peer/ community production

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glob

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rope

rabi

lity

communities

makers

fab labs / microfactories

people

services

services

// will probably keep on being different things in the mid-term

// have different purposes // question of interoperability and

“languages” // fablabs and micro-factories will

specialize too

small scale/P2P production specialized manufacturing

mass/smart factories

so, what specific role could fablabs

play in this scenario?

(of course) fablabs will keep on “doing” fablabs :)

making and discovering opening up knowledge

enabling prototyping

etc…

The Internet of things, data and services are merging the physical and digital world

(Forschungsunion 2013)

This is where knowledge-based services have a huge task ahead. Knowledge is also “learning by doing” and “learning by using”

we got

it!(Forschungsunion 2013)

CC Flickr user Patrick

companies will become places of continuous learning and

personal growth for people

Learning Organizations for individuals and

communities

M. Tiraboschi (2014)

we got

it!

in order to adapt to continuous shifts

strategic and multi-actor alliances are critical drivers of innovation, but SMEs regularly struggle with

making purposively good use of external relationships for

innovation.

Open-innovation drivers for SMEs

we got

it!

Van de Vrande (2009)

[in 4.0 scenarios] the use of highly specialized profiles with manufacturing skills for control and supervisions, could be a key factor from a competitiveness point of view

On-demand Skills Providers

Seghetti, F. (2016)CC Flickr user Hammerstein NWC

we got

it!

there’s a specific need for developing effective platform-

based product systems enabling open source for hardware and a

lot to experiment about P2P licenses and other forms of

commons-based license models

Open-IP strategy designers

we got

it!

making the entire new ecosystem working means interoperability and development of standards, allowing M2M communications. Makers must be involved in embracing an open attitude

Support open interoperability protocols / standards

we can

do it!

become hubs for local

production ecosystems

and make its distributed infrastructure work!

we can

try to do

it!

future is a common place, let’s make it

together

GRAZIEimage CC Flickr user Sweetie187

Andrea Cattabriga twitter @andrecatta mail andrea@slowd.it