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jean lievens
January 19, 2015 3:59 PM
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What if you could build a civilization from scratch, using tools that could also be built from scratch? In his talk “Open-sourced blueprints for civilization” at TED2011, Marcin Jakubowski introduced the Global Village Construction Set, open-source blueprints that would essentially allow anyone with a heap of scrap metal — and a few production tools — to make 50 machines covering all the needs of a basic civilization: agriculture, energy, transportation and production.
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jean lievens
January 11, 2015 4:23 AM
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(Reuters) - Apple Inc will open a manufacturing facility in Arizona in partnership with mineral crystal specialist GT Advanced Technologies Inc to make sapphire materials for Apple's popular electronics devices.
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jean lievens
January 3, 2015 6:17 AM
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Not exactly, but makers have more options than ever.
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jean lievens
January 2, 2015 5:00 PM
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Industrial civilization is being disrupted by the limits of nature.
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jean lievens
December 31, 2014 6:46 AM
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Be it new production processes, speed of innovation or environmentally sound product lines, high value manufacturing means that more manufacturers are realising the potential to be more than just makers of products.
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jean lievens
December 25, 2014 3:04 PM
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Among the manufacturing industry’s most forward-looking initiatives has been the application of analytics against large pools of data in order to infer actionable business intelligence in real time.
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jean lievens
December 20, 2014 9:51 AM
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The Internet is allowing virtual communities to easily co-create digital assets and intellectual content at a very low “cooperation cost”. The ideology behind the open-source software development methodology has actually spread to new domains such as open-data, open-design and open-innovation. A new set of Internet tools and services is now available to leverage the “wealth and the wisdom of the crowd”. Complex projects can be crowd-sourced and crowd-funded by small and medium sized companies to reduce their cost of doing business. The “crowd” itself uses and modifies “open-data” to “co-create” new open-designs for the purpose of participating to “crowd-sourced” projects.
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jean lievens
December 5, 2014 3:08 PM
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Innovation within manufacturing is changing radically.
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jean lievens
November 29, 2014 7:00 PM
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McKinsey & Company recently published How Big Data Can Improve Manufacturing which provides insightful analysis of how big data and advanced analytics can streamline biopharmaceutical, chemical and discrete manufacturing.
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jean lievens
November 16, 2014 4:46 PM
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Zenmono is a crowd funding platform specialized in manufacturing that makers and small factories can attracting support as well as raising fund.
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jean lievens
November 12, 2014 5:24 AM
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The sharing economy has thrust the concept of paying purely for what you use firmly into the mainstream. Whereas historically we would regard buying a car, and then not using it for 95% of its life, as very much the norm.
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jean lievens
October 28, 2014 4:10 PM
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"CSF shareholders pay up front for a share of the catch. Most CSFs deliver whole fish in season, so customers experience variety and seasonality. Fishermen are paid a flat rate per season, rather than being paid only for the number of fish they catch. This encourages them to diversify their catch and fish according to the demands of the ecosystem, rather than to maximize sales.
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jean lievens
October 27, 2014 4:10 PM
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The computerization of manufacturing could have a major impact
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jean lievens
January 11, 2015 4:24 AM
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The punk rock revolution democratized the tools of production in a way that is now echoed in everything from desktop manufacturing to crowdfunding.
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January 5, 2015 3:36 PM
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There’s a radical change in the way manufacturing of components is perceived over the last two decades, as the reverse engineering usage seems to spread
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jean lievens
January 3, 2015 3:16 AM
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New section to focus on the link between open hardware, distributed manufacturing, and ecological/sustainability concerns
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jean lievens
January 2, 2015 2:58 AM
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The media we use everyday have been described as immaterial, cognitive, friction-free and weightless but they are not so. Manufacturing, using and recycling digital media involve immense quantities of materials and energy. This talk looks at the environmental consequences of ubiquitous media and the rapidly changing technologies. The network of stories about metals, plastics, oil, nuclear and toxic waste is a depressing tale to tell but points towards a new kind of aesthetic politics which might yet save both humans and environments.
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jean lievens
December 27, 2014 12:46 PM
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Manufacturers are continuously working on reducing costs and increasing productivity, arguably perfecting their operations, but the industry has yet to reach its full potential.
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jean lievens
December 25, 2014 4:12 AM
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Amazing project for a new approach to additive manufacturing in arts and architecture. Again from Barcelona Fablab - IaaC: MATAERIAL – a brand new method of additive manufacturing.
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jean lievens
December 16, 2014 3:20 PM
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Manufacturing Global uncovers the top manufacturing trends in 2014.
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jean lievens
December 1, 2014 7:04 AM
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The rise of technologies such as lightweight robots, 3D printing and power computing tools will play an important role in helping the Australian manufacturing industry through one of its most critical junctures.
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jean lievens
November 18, 2014 5:03 PM
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Initiated by Andrew Paterson (Helsinki), in conversation with Michel Bauwens & Irma Wilson (Johannesburg), with aim to gain better understanding of the P2P developments in Africa that are emergent in the form of hacker & makerspaces and fablabs. Further suggestions most welcome to develop this list beyond the those listed in Fablab directory.
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jean lievens
November 13, 2014 6:09 AM
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"an accelerator for open source sustainability, whose pinnacle will be a 5-week camp in the countryside 40min from Paris, bringing together 50 open hardware innovators with world-class mentors and experts, to prototype the most functional and replicable cell of a sustainable society, and bring it to the world ahead of COP21 (which is scheduled in december 2015 in Paris)
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jean lievens
November 1, 2014 9:33 AM
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A new breed of so-called collaborative machines—designed to work alongside people in close settings—is changing the way some of America's smaller manufacturers do their jobs.
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jean lievens
October 27, 2014 4:21 PM
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Nearly one billion people around the globe are homeless or live in substandard housing. In the era of 3D printing, some have addressed this crisis through quickly built concrete buildings. While this method would create a secure dwelling, delivering the raw materials and bulky printer increases the cost significantly, reducing its feasibility. The Italian 3D printing company WASP may have solved this problem by developing an easily-transportable machine that can quickly create dwellings out of mud and natural fibers—materials already available where the houses will be built.
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