The document summarizes an unConference on the future of industry, mobility, and making held in Paris in March 2015. Over two days, the unConference brought together representatives from the automotive industry, French government ministries, FabLabs, and others. Presenters discussed the potential shift from traditional linear industrial models to more distributed, ecosystem models enabled by digital technologies and connectivity. Specific topics discussed included open hardware standards, the role of users, and balancing production, hardware, and skills. The event aimed to explore how industry and mobility may be transformed in the next two decades, and what characteristics future industrial production tools may require to support emerging behaviors.
The document summarizes the Fabrique des Mobilités project which aims to accelerate innovation in sustainable mobility through digital technologies. It acknowledges new digital players are transforming mobility and that traditional players must adapt to new, faster innovation processes used by startups. The Fabrique seeks to support the most promising projects, bring resources together, create connections, and provide experimentation space to help French and European players develop new synergies and maximize success chances. Its goal is to develop a common innovation culture, support projects, and create an open space for entrepreneurs.
A collaborative innovation platform for smart urban mobility in Europe should provide:
1. Access and equity for all innovators and entrepreneurs, remaining neutral.
2. A European-scale "sandbox" or testing environment for new mobility solutions.
3. Using lean startup methodology, it builds shared resources ("commons") like feedback, projects outcomes, and connections between startups and industries.
4. It operates four synergistic dynamics: supporting entrepreneurs, catalyzing industry transitions, collecting learnings in commons, and building communities of interest around mobility domains.
The platform needs public support at national and EU levels to expand across Europe and compete globally.
The document provides an overview of open source and its history:
- Open source began with early computer programs in the 1950s and 1960s being shared amongst researchers and students, with source code distributed to allow modifications and improvements.
- In the late 1960s, proprietary software emerged and open source declined as companies sought to protect their products and charge for software licenses.
- More recently, some large tech companies have adopted open source strategies to rapidly develop new technologies and standards before competitors by attracting collaborators and building critical mass on open platforms. Open source is now seen as an important approach for European industries to develop strategies to compete with large tech companies.
Digital Fabrication Studio 0.3 Media, Business, Platform, EconomyMassimo Menichinelli
Digital_Fabrication_Studio.01 discusses the media ecosystem, platforms, and business models for digital fabrication, open design, and DIY projects. It describes how magazines like Wired and Make promote these fields. Platforms discussed include Etsy, Ponoko, and Shapeways for selling projects, as well as GitHub for coding. Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are also covered. The document notes that while open source is important, projects still need market relevance. Successful businesses in this field like MakerBot and 3D Systems are highlighted. The growing market for 3D printing and how various players are positioned is summarized.
In a period of disruptive change how should librarians invest in technology? At Internet Librarian International analysed the Library Management Systems market in the context of the model of 'disruptive innovation’. He also summarised some recent literature on technology and social change and highlighted some of the challenges these discourses are presenting to libraries and librarians
Talk at April 10th, 2014 – Agora, Berlin – IoTPeople Berlin
THIS TALK/PRESO IS ONLY COVERING A SMALL FRACTION OF THE STUDY!
Download links for the study:
English: http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/z-punkt-studyconnectedreality2025englsingle
German: http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/connected-reality-2025-einzelseiten-studie-deutsch-zpunkt
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The talk/preso is focussing on two topic fields:
(I) The 'Connected Markets 2025' examples
– to give the audience a glimpse with some first cases of today (weak signals).
(II) 'Challenges'
– with my personal point of view – to give an idea about the huge impact of the upcoming tech wave on economy and society.
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Some extracts of the slides of part II in this preso:
CHANCES + RISKS
Chances
Convenience, smartisation of everyday things, Smart Home, Smart City, Smart Mobility ...Business forecast: $ 19 trillion market (Cisco)
Risks
Complexity, security, privacy, business models, job market, economical system challenge ...
SYSTEMIC CHALLENGE
„In this new world, social capital is as important as financial capital, access trumps ownership, sustainability supersedes consumerism, cooperation ousts competition“Jeremy Rifkin
ENDANGERED HUMANITY?
In the context of massive technological transformations it is a key challenge in the 21st century to secure humaneness.
Societal debate and participatory process are necessities to find the path to a wishful future.
ONE TRILLION THINGS
Will there be one trillion connected things in 2025?
Soft connectivity scenario – visual tracking; – „cognitive cams“ recognize and track objects and states.
Personal Footprint Account – degrowth conference 2014 – open space presentationWilli Schroll
WHAT: Open space and interactive workshop in the perspective of foresight –
WHEN: September 4th, 2014 –
WHERE: International degrowth conference #4, Leipzig –
WHO: Willi Schroll, MA, Berlin
The document summarizes the Fabrique des Mobilités project which aims to accelerate innovation in sustainable mobility through digital technologies. It acknowledges new digital players are transforming mobility and that traditional players must adapt to new, faster innovation processes used by startups. The Fabrique seeks to support the most promising projects, bring resources together, create connections, and provide experimentation space to help French and European players develop new synergies and maximize success chances. Its goal is to develop a common innovation culture, support projects, and create an open space for entrepreneurs.
A collaborative innovation platform for smart urban mobility in Europe should provide:
1. Access and equity for all innovators and entrepreneurs, remaining neutral.
2. A European-scale "sandbox" or testing environment for new mobility solutions.
3. Using lean startup methodology, it builds shared resources ("commons") like feedback, projects outcomes, and connections between startups and industries.
4. It operates four synergistic dynamics: supporting entrepreneurs, catalyzing industry transitions, collecting learnings in commons, and building communities of interest around mobility domains.
The platform needs public support at national and EU levels to expand across Europe and compete globally.
The document provides an overview of open source and its history:
- Open source began with early computer programs in the 1950s and 1960s being shared amongst researchers and students, with source code distributed to allow modifications and improvements.
- In the late 1960s, proprietary software emerged and open source declined as companies sought to protect their products and charge for software licenses.
- More recently, some large tech companies have adopted open source strategies to rapidly develop new technologies and standards before competitors by attracting collaborators and building critical mass on open platforms. Open source is now seen as an important approach for European industries to develop strategies to compete with large tech companies.
Digital Fabrication Studio 0.3 Media, Business, Platform, EconomyMassimo Menichinelli
Digital_Fabrication_Studio.01 discusses the media ecosystem, platforms, and business models for digital fabrication, open design, and DIY projects. It describes how magazines like Wired and Make promote these fields. Platforms discussed include Etsy, Ponoko, and Shapeways for selling projects, as well as GitHub for coding. Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are also covered. The document notes that while open source is important, projects still need market relevance. Successful businesses in this field like MakerBot and 3D Systems are highlighted. The growing market for 3D printing and how various players are positioned is summarized.
In a period of disruptive change how should librarians invest in technology? At Internet Librarian International analysed the Library Management Systems market in the context of the model of 'disruptive innovation’. He also summarised some recent literature on technology and social change and highlighted some of the challenges these discourses are presenting to libraries and librarians
Talk at April 10th, 2014 – Agora, Berlin – IoTPeople Berlin
THIS TALK/PRESO IS ONLY COVERING A SMALL FRACTION OF THE STUDY!
Download links for the study:
English: http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/z-punkt-studyconnectedreality2025englsingle
German: http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/connected-reality-2025-einzelseiten-studie-deutsch-zpunkt
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The talk/preso is focussing on two topic fields:
(I) The 'Connected Markets 2025' examples
– to give the audience a glimpse with some first cases of today (weak signals).
(II) 'Challenges'
– with my personal point of view – to give an idea about the huge impact of the upcoming tech wave on economy and society.
-----
Some extracts of the slides of part II in this preso:
CHANCES + RISKS
Chances
Convenience, smartisation of everyday things, Smart Home, Smart City, Smart Mobility ...Business forecast: $ 19 trillion market (Cisco)
Risks
Complexity, security, privacy, business models, job market, economical system challenge ...
SYSTEMIC CHALLENGE
„In this new world, social capital is as important as financial capital, access trumps ownership, sustainability supersedes consumerism, cooperation ousts competition“Jeremy Rifkin
ENDANGERED HUMANITY?
In the context of massive technological transformations it is a key challenge in the 21st century to secure humaneness.
Societal debate and participatory process are necessities to find the path to a wishful future.
ONE TRILLION THINGS
Will there be one trillion connected things in 2025?
Soft connectivity scenario – visual tracking; – „cognitive cams“ recognize and track objects and states.
Personal Footprint Account – degrowth conference 2014 – open space presentationWilli Schroll
WHAT: Open space and interactive workshop in the perspective of foresight –
WHEN: September 4th, 2014 –
WHERE: International degrowth conference #4, Leipzig –
WHO: Willi Schroll, MA, Berlin
1. The document discusses open innovation opportunities for makers through four patterns: open APIs, open clubrooms, open channels for low-volume manufacturing, and open sourcing of hardware.
2. It then provides two case studies as examples. The first case is exiii, a startup that open sourced their myoelectric hand designs to more broadly develop and deploy the technology. The second case discusses the Core Booster Project in Gifu Prefecture, which brought together local industries and information companies to develop IoT concepts through observation and prototyping.
3. Both cases aimed to achieve outcomes not possible through traditional means alone - exiii promoting global development communities and the Core Booster Project cross-industry collaboration at a
AUTHOR: Willi Schroll, strategiclabs Berlin –
CONFERENCE: IoT Week – London 16th-20th June 2014 –
DATE: 18th June 2014 –
TRACK: Society –
HASHTAG: #IoTweek –
Please download the study "Connected Reality 2025" for free:
http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/z-punkt-studyconnectedreality2025englsingle
OUTLINE of the presentation:
I. Foresight perspective on IoT and related drivers
II. IoT and the „Power of Social“
THESES
Thesis I: Most of IoT has as much to do with social relationships as it does with technology
Thesis II: Socio-centric analysis complementing the user‐centric standards
Thesis III: Network theory and Social Capital theory are essential perspectives to build a framework for IoT development/UXD
A dominant part of the slidedeck introduces the study "Connected Reality 2025".
The Living Bridges Planet community (facebook group of 6.800) is intended as an exemplification of applied Social Capital theory. Since 2012 a "network of networks" has been – including frequent video chats, peer2peer learning, knowledge flow, the spreading and the re-accumulation of the social capital form trust. This dynamics illustrates the "power of social".
Implications for IoT design and development are affecting the IoT research design and the assumptions / process design in product and service development. (See theses above)
http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/z-punkt-studyconnectedreality2025englsingle
TEDxRaval 2012 was a full-day event held in Barcelona, Spain that brought together over 100 members of the technology community. The event featured talks from leaders of technology companies and startups on topics related to innovation trends, growth strategies, and disruptive product development. Speakers included executives from BlackBerry, Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Telefonica, as well as founders of startups and directors of research organizations. The goal of the event was to provide networking and learning opportunities for attendees through case studies, panel discussions, and talks on the present and future of technology.
Labfab : the extended Fablab of Rennes (inspired by Fab city project)Hugues Aubin
The extended fablab of Rennes is a network of 15 spaces sharing tools, knowledge, and human resources to teach digital fabrication skills. It began in 2012 with a bootcamp and has expanded to include spaces in schools, public areas, and the main workspace. In 2013, the city of Rennes funded new equipment and the network grew to its current size, serving over 200 people and producing many projects. The goals of the extended fablab are to empower individuals and organizations through open-source knowledge sharing and exploring new economic models like workshops and prototyping services.
CityDrivers is a project funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) to improve the ability of creative professionals to provide services based on service design and co-development. At an event held in Helsinki on the 13th February, Tuija Hirvokisko (ENoLL president and Laurea Director) gave a presentation and spoke about City Drivers project as well as ENoLL as an ecosystem.
This is the slide I prepared for the BHN Seminar in Tokyo for Trainees from Asian Countries - on new phase of Information Society - with main theme of new mobility and open innovation as well as Social Fabrication
This was used for my lecture to the delegation from Rwanda to Japan.
It includes, Social Fabrication, Next phase of Information Society, Future of Industry, Mobility and Making, FabLab, Open Innovation, among others.
Exploring Collaborative Processes Between Maker Laboratories, Designers And C...Massimo Menichinelli
This document explores collaborative processes between maker laboratories, designers and companies. It conducted an online survey of 14 maker labs across Europe and the US. The survey found that while maker labs have technical equipment and skilled communities, collaboration with designers and companies remains in early stages. Most projects involve prototyping, with few resulting products making the market. The researchers conclude these collaborations represent an "embryo" of distributed manufacturing under Industry 4.0, but more structured models and policies are still needed to fully realize this vision.
Digital revolution 3.0 - THe Rise of FabLabIzumi Aizu
This is the presentation material prepared for the UNESCO Future Forum in Paris, Feb 27, 2013. UNESCO Future Forum, Paris
"Exploring the Dynamics of Knowledge Societies: Using the Future to Shape Transformative Policies"
I will be on the Panel.
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/bureau-of-strategic-planning/themes/anticipation-and-foresight/unesco-future-forums/exploring-the-dynamics-of-knowledge-societies/
As we don't have much time, only the summary of this slide will be presented.
The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence » industry...Francois Pouilloux
The industry day of the conference aims to bring together people from both academia and industry in a venue that highlights application and practical impact.
I'm pleased to present there on August 22nd 2011.
Stay tuned for the prez file after the event !
Future of Industry, Mobility and Making Mar 5 2015Izumi Aizu
Introdcution presentation for the unConference on Future of Industry, Technology and Mobility - Mar 5 & 6
@ Carefoure Numerique, FabLab La Vilette, Parsi
The Smart City working group by Dave Carter, Manchester and Chair CIP portfolio. Smart Cities & the Future Internet organised by Fireball, Eurocities and ENoLL on January 25th, 2012.
The document summarizes the ELLIOT project, which aims to develop an experiential Internet of Things platform involving users. The project will study the impact of IoT through open innovation and living labs. It will explore user co-creation techniques, and experiment with three use cases in logistics, well-being, and environment across three European living labs. The results will be disseminated through the living labs networks and multipliers to support wider adoption of IoT.
Digital fabrication technologies in support of the visually impaired Edoardo...FondazioneAndreaBocelli
The presentation could include 3-4 examples of “makers” projects dedicated to help blind or visually impaired people. The makers community is booming all over the world, putting together people who rediscover the passion to make things using both their hands and modern technologies such as Computer Aided Design and digital fabrication machines. Some of the projects are designed to help visualize either abstract concepts (like math formulas) or physical objects like monuments, art masterpieces, complex objects. This can be a valuable support to provide information to blind or visually impaired users. In this speech I will briefly present the most effective and successful international projects carried out by university, schools and industries.
FabMob aims to accelerate the mobility ecosystem by creating open platforms, projects and commons. It connects over 250 industries, schools, labs and communities across 7 cities. FabMob works to build communities, accelerate startups, support industries and cities in transitioning ecologically and digitally. It shares networks, projects and open resources through its wiki, blog and events to reduce costs and innovation barriers for stakeholders in mobility.
I fab lab in fvg (dall'idea al progetto)Carlo Fonda
Breve rassegna di alcuni concetti base: cos'è un FabLab, come funziona, quali sono le regole e le attività. Descrizione dei progetti di FabLab in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
The document discusses four emerging trends:
1. The nature of success is changing as individuals have greater reach and influence due to the internet.
2. The digital world is expanding through the internet of things (IoT) and connectivity of everyday objects.
3. Power structures are shifting as IoT allows seamless data sharing across networks in a way that decentralizes control.
4. Business models must change and become more transparent as IoT enables real-time data sharing between companies and customers.
The document also summarizes efforts to involve citizens in co-creating IoT solutions through workshops in various cities to help design use cases that meet user needs and address issues of privacy, security and ethics.
1. The document discusses open innovation opportunities for makers through four patterns: open APIs, open clubrooms, open channels for low-volume manufacturing, and open sourcing of hardware.
2. It then provides two case studies as examples. The first case is exiii, a startup that open sourced their myoelectric hand designs to more broadly develop and deploy the technology. The second case discusses the Core Booster Project in Gifu Prefecture, which brought together local industries and information companies to develop IoT concepts through observation and prototyping.
3. Both cases aimed to achieve outcomes not possible through traditional means alone - exiii promoting global development communities and the Core Booster Project cross-industry collaboration at a
AUTHOR: Willi Schroll, strategiclabs Berlin –
CONFERENCE: IoT Week – London 16th-20th June 2014 –
DATE: 18th June 2014 –
TRACK: Society –
HASHTAG: #IoTweek –
Please download the study "Connected Reality 2025" for free:
http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/z-punkt-studyconnectedreality2025englsingle
OUTLINE of the presentation:
I. Foresight perspective on IoT and related drivers
II. IoT and the „Power of Social“
THESES
Thesis I: Most of IoT has as much to do with social relationships as it does with technology
Thesis II: Socio-centric analysis complementing the user‐centric standards
Thesis III: Network theory and Social Capital theory are essential perspectives to build a framework for IoT development/UXD
A dominant part of the slidedeck introduces the study "Connected Reality 2025".
The Living Bridges Planet community (facebook group of 6.800) is intended as an exemplification of applied Social Capital theory. Since 2012 a "network of networks" has been – including frequent video chats, peer2peer learning, knowledge flow, the spreading and the re-accumulation of the social capital form trust. This dynamics illustrates the "power of social".
Implications for IoT design and development are affecting the IoT research design and the assumptions / process design in product and service development. (See theses above)
http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/z-punkt-studyconnectedreality2025englsingle
TEDxRaval 2012 was a full-day event held in Barcelona, Spain that brought together over 100 members of the technology community. The event featured talks from leaders of technology companies and startups on topics related to innovation trends, growth strategies, and disruptive product development. Speakers included executives from BlackBerry, Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Telefonica, as well as founders of startups and directors of research organizations. The goal of the event was to provide networking and learning opportunities for attendees through case studies, panel discussions, and talks on the present and future of technology.
Labfab : the extended Fablab of Rennes (inspired by Fab city project)Hugues Aubin
The extended fablab of Rennes is a network of 15 spaces sharing tools, knowledge, and human resources to teach digital fabrication skills. It began in 2012 with a bootcamp and has expanded to include spaces in schools, public areas, and the main workspace. In 2013, the city of Rennes funded new equipment and the network grew to its current size, serving over 200 people and producing many projects. The goals of the extended fablab are to empower individuals and organizations through open-source knowledge sharing and exploring new economic models like workshops and prototyping services.
CityDrivers is a project funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) to improve the ability of creative professionals to provide services based on service design and co-development. At an event held in Helsinki on the 13th February, Tuija Hirvokisko (ENoLL president and Laurea Director) gave a presentation and spoke about City Drivers project as well as ENoLL as an ecosystem.
This is the slide I prepared for the BHN Seminar in Tokyo for Trainees from Asian Countries - on new phase of Information Society - with main theme of new mobility and open innovation as well as Social Fabrication
This was used for my lecture to the delegation from Rwanda to Japan.
It includes, Social Fabrication, Next phase of Information Society, Future of Industry, Mobility and Making, FabLab, Open Innovation, among others.
Exploring Collaborative Processes Between Maker Laboratories, Designers And C...Massimo Menichinelli
This document explores collaborative processes between maker laboratories, designers and companies. It conducted an online survey of 14 maker labs across Europe and the US. The survey found that while maker labs have technical equipment and skilled communities, collaboration with designers and companies remains in early stages. Most projects involve prototyping, with few resulting products making the market. The researchers conclude these collaborations represent an "embryo" of distributed manufacturing under Industry 4.0, but more structured models and policies are still needed to fully realize this vision.
Digital revolution 3.0 - THe Rise of FabLabIzumi Aizu
This is the presentation material prepared for the UNESCO Future Forum in Paris, Feb 27, 2013. UNESCO Future Forum, Paris
"Exploring the Dynamics of Knowledge Societies: Using the Future to Shape Transformative Policies"
I will be on the Panel.
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/bureau-of-strategic-planning/themes/anticipation-and-foresight/unesco-future-forums/exploring-the-dynamics-of-knowledge-societies/
As we don't have much time, only the summary of this slide will be presented.
The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence » industry...Francois Pouilloux
The industry day of the conference aims to bring together people from both academia and industry in a venue that highlights application and practical impact.
I'm pleased to present there on August 22nd 2011.
Stay tuned for the prez file after the event !
Future of Industry, Mobility and Making Mar 5 2015Izumi Aizu
Introdcution presentation for the unConference on Future of Industry, Technology and Mobility - Mar 5 & 6
@ Carefoure Numerique, FabLab La Vilette, Parsi
The Smart City working group by Dave Carter, Manchester and Chair CIP portfolio. Smart Cities & the Future Internet organised by Fireball, Eurocities and ENoLL on January 25th, 2012.
The document summarizes the ELLIOT project, which aims to develop an experiential Internet of Things platform involving users. The project will study the impact of IoT through open innovation and living labs. It will explore user co-creation techniques, and experiment with three use cases in logistics, well-being, and environment across three European living labs. The results will be disseminated through the living labs networks and multipliers to support wider adoption of IoT.
Digital fabrication technologies in support of the visually impaired Edoardo...FondazioneAndreaBocelli
The presentation could include 3-4 examples of “makers” projects dedicated to help blind or visually impaired people. The makers community is booming all over the world, putting together people who rediscover the passion to make things using both their hands and modern technologies such as Computer Aided Design and digital fabrication machines. Some of the projects are designed to help visualize either abstract concepts (like math formulas) or physical objects like monuments, art masterpieces, complex objects. This can be a valuable support to provide information to blind or visually impaired users. In this speech I will briefly present the most effective and successful international projects carried out by university, schools and industries.
FabMob aims to accelerate the mobility ecosystem by creating open platforms, projects and commons. It connects over 250 industries, schools, labs and communities across 7 cities. FabMob works to build communities, accelerate startups, support industries and cities in transitioning ecologically and digitally. It shares networks, projects and open resources through its wiki, blog and events to reduce costs and innovation barriers for stakeholders in mobility.
I fab lab in fvg (dall'idea al progetto)Carlo Fonda
Breve rassegna di alcuni concetti base: cos'è un FabLab, come funziona, quali sono le regole e le attività. Descrizione dei progetti di FabLab in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
The document discusses four emerging trends:
1. The nature of success is changing as individuals have greater reach and influence due to the internet.
2. The digital world is expanding through the internet of things (IoT) and connectivity of everyday objects.
3. Power structures are shifting as IoT allows seamless data sharing across networks in a way that decentralizes control.
4. Business models must change and become more transparent as IoT enables real-time data sharing between companies and customers.
The document also summarizes efforts to involve citizens in co-creating IoT solutions through workshops in various cities to help design use cases that meet user needs and address issues of privacy, security and ethics.
Fing produces and shares novel ideas to anticipate digital transformations through various programs like their think tank, do tank, innovation labs, and 6 Minutes of Serendipity event series. The 6 Minutes of Serendipity series scouts early-stage innovators, provides coaching to improve projects, and allows projects to publicly present and network in 6 minutes or less. Fing hopes to expand this open innovation network through partnerships in other countries and regions.
Open source & mobility in europe white paperFabMob
This white paper discusses the potential of open source to drive innovation in mobility across Europe. It argues that open source can [1] bring useful resources to entrepreneurs, [2] help change mobility behaviors through a network of pioneers, and [3] reduce costs for individual actors. Several examples are given of open source projects in automotive, transportation, and mobility more broadly. The document advocates that European governments allocate public funds to produce open resources in sustainable mobility areas.
Open innovation is not a new phenomena. New online social tools increase the scope of opportunity and of potential contributions. A presentation by Jean-Yves Huwart, CEO of Global Enterprise.
Kai Salminen - Industry 4.0 – Open your mind to ”Robot Revolution” and relate...Mindtrek
Kai Salminen at Mindtrek 2016. Industry 4.0 – Open your mind to ”Robot Revolution” and related new Business Models. Smart System driven transformation for growth
within EU, Japan and US and related Business Intelligence development for new cognitive factory and business models.
Nepal Disaster and Innovation by Mahabir Pun tokyo2015Izumi Aizu
Mr. Mahabir Pun's presentation on Nepal conservation, wireless networking, 2015 earthquake and reconstruction, innovation center project - and how we can join.
The document summarizes information and communication challenges in Japan following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. It describes how the disaster caused over 18,000 deaths and left many areas with destroyed infrastructure and lingering problems. Surveys found that in the early days, radio was the most useful information source, while mobile phones did not work. Areas directly hit by the tsunami had little to no information sources. Over time, television and the internet became more relied on for updates, but the information around the Fukushima nuclear accident was confusing and unreliable for evacuations. The surveys provided insights into what information tools were available and useful to disaster-affected communities over time.
The document summarizes the proceedings of the unConference #1 on Future of Industry, Mobility and Making held in Paris on March 5-6, 2015. An unConference is an open event where participants collectively determine the agenda and content through discussion and collaboration. The event brought together stakeholders from industry, mobility and making to discuss the future of these areas and how they are converging. Key topics discussed included open source vehicles, the changing auto industry, new models of mobility like car sharing, and the potential emergence of an "unIndustry" driven more by end users. Follow up unConferences were planned in various locations to continue exploring an open factory model for the future.
This document summarizes activities at the Fab Lab Oita located in Oita Prefecture, Japan.
1) Fab Lab Oita is located in Oita City and has been operating since January 2014, funded by the local government. It has hosted over 1,500 visitors and is staffed by 3 people plus volunteers.
2) The lab collaborates with schools in the area, visiting classes and teaching digital fabrication skills to students. They have also helped make 3D models for teaching materials for schools for the blind and deaf.
3) Future plans include deeper involvement with local businesses, artists, and students to become more integrated into the Oita community.
IGF + NETmundial for Asia Pacific Internet Leadership ProgramIzumi Aizu
The document discusses the history of internet governance debates and forums. It outlines the early skepticism around personal computer and internet use. It then summarizes the establishment of the IGF in 2006 as a multi-stakeholder forum for internet governance issues. The document also discusses the NETmundial meeting in 2014 and debates around expanding governmental roles in internet governance through agreements like the ITR.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
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1. Future of Industry, Mobility & Making
unReport #1
April 2015
unConference #1 Paris
5th & 6th of March 2015
at Carrefour Numérique²
FabLab La Villette
at Cité des Sciences et
de l’Industrie, Paris
. ABSTRACT
This first unConference on the Future of Industry, Making & Mobility (FIMM) gathered an
interdisciplinary crowd on the 5th & 6th of March 2015, and is planned to continue in a second
episode later in April in Rotterdam and in June in Yokohama, Japan. We hope this stream will
continue further elsewhere.
At this first FIMM unConference joined automotive industry related businesses (Renault, OSVehicle),
industry and mobility French ministry representatives, Fablab related people (FacLab, Carrefour
Numérique², FabLab Oita, WoMa), Open Source and peer-to-peer economy folks (OuiShare), PhD
students on labor organization and CAD innovation.
From the unConference organization to the unReport aggregation, the FIMM topic nourished
questions that, discussion after discussion, started to get structured mainly around the factory
model, the hardware standards and the users’ status. Thus it then becomes possible to envision
an evolution from the linear industrial model - from manufacturer to end-product to customers - to
an eco-systemic industrial model, balancing between production means, hardware elements and
users’ skills.
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2. . TABLE OF CONTENT
. ABSTRACT
. TABLE OF CONTENT
1. CONTEXT
Context : Targets for this session and perspective
“Discussing the industrial models that will best serve the Mobility in the coming two decades.” 3
About the Co-hosts of the unConference #1
The Institute for HyperNetwork Society (IHNS)/ FabLab Oita, Japan 4
Carrefour Numerique² (FabLab La Villete, Paris) 4
WoMa, fabrique de quartier, Paris 4
FacLab, Faclab, le FabLab de l'Université de Cergy-Pontoise 4
Main presenters
Izumi Aizu (IHNS/FabLab Oita) 4
Carlo De Micheli (Head of Innovation, OpenSourceVehicle – Turin) 4
Mickaël Desmoulins (FabLab Renault) 5
Guillaume Attal (WoMa) 5
Other key participants
Laurent Ricard (FacLab, l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise) 6
Gerard Emond (DGCIS – STIC) 6
Marc Chataigner (WoMa) 6
Participants and other interested by the unReport #1
Participants who attended the two days 6
Persons who could not attend but are interested to follow up 6
2. INPUTS - the keynotes
IHNS - Izumi Aizu 7
OSVehicle - Carlo de Micheli 9
Renault - Mickaël Desmoulins 13
3. OUTCOMES - the questions
The questions we started with,
The questions we ended up with,
1. Industry 4.0 vs Distributed Manufacturing 17
2. Design and manufacturing eco-system 20
3. Vehicle in a ‘physital’ age 22
4. Certification in a peer-to-peer industry 23
5. User’s role as a contributor 24
6. Data sphere and value 25
4. CONCLUSION
. METHODOLOGY
. GLOSSARY
5. ENDNOTE
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3. 1. CONTEXT
Context : Targets for this session and perspective
“Discussing the industrial models that will best serve the Mobility in the
coming two decades.”
20 years ago, the Internet started to change our society. In essence, it freed the flow of information.
Anything represented in the form of digital bits could be sent, received, shared, searched and
processed globally, instantly and inexpensively. As a result, many new services and social
movements came out. However, what we could deal with over the Net has been constrained to
objects that can be recognized by human brains so far.
While algorithms continue to automate and replace some human tasks, the rise of affordable digital
machines such as laser cutter, milling machine, 3D printer etc., connected to the Net, helps the
emerging of new movements. FabLab, Maker movements, or Hacker-space are all part of these
new way to work and produce. We can treat physical objects just like digital ones to process,
share and change them across the globe. In other words, through the digital machine tools
connected with the Net, our hands in addition to brains are now interconnected globally. In addition
to Information Processing, we are now seeing Material Processing.
The movements of bits and movements of physical objects are going to intersect, co-exist and
bring new types of societies we have yet to know. Welcome to the new world of “physital objects"!
Even at the scale of the large industry, it is already possible to witness the effects of this movement
carried out by internet. On the working process organization, on the way to distribute goods, or on
the ways to scientifically organize the work processes. Therefore, the industry appears to face 2
possibles paths : on one side arises the industry 4.0, a model of automated chains, with more
algorithm embedded, connected parts that share data and improve the design. Next to this smart
Internet of thing model emerge the distributed factory model, where parts may be delivered and
assembled locally, where there is value to share knowledge or co-own the final object. As both of
these trends are rooted into the fast growing digital and interconnected milieu, they however shape
different futures of the post-fordist models. Or would there be a third way?
If we take the automotive industry as a first example to apply these thoughts about our industrial
models, the first 3D Printed Car was just announced by Local Motors in US. Automatic or self-
driving has been the popular topic recently. These indicate the new potential of connected objects
from creating them to using them. Open Source Vehicle shows the possibility of people assembling
their own cars, thus changing the links with auto manufacturers or with the legislator. Bicycles are
shared in many cities including Paris, and Electric Vehicles are starting to be shared. Smart phones
and mobile network services allow Uber, Airbnb and many more services offering new mode of
mobility.
We can foresee the deep and wide social change of mobility of peoples, objects, information,
money and energy will come in the next two decades. At this unConference, we would like to
explore how the movements or mobility at large will be transformed in the next two decades from
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4. now, and then, what characteristics the industrial production tools shall require to serve these
behaviors smartly. In order to build a relevant vision, we will invite industry people and creative
people working in these new fields, share their views, and hopefully draw the social framework for
the next 20 years to come.
About the Co-hosts of the unConference #1
The Institute for HyperNetwork Society (IHNS)/ FabLab Oita, Japan
IHNS has its main office in Oita, a local city in Kyushu Island of Japan, and is actively involved in
building the community networking with grassroots citizens as well as local government of Oita
towards building the information society.
Carrefour Numerique² (FabLab La Villete, Paris)
The Carrefour numérique² aims to encourage new digital practices and allow everyone, particularly
those aged 15-25 years, to take a different approach to science and technology. For this purpose,
it has a production laboratory - the Fab Lab - and a laboratory for digital mediation - the Living Lab
-
WoMa, fabrique de quartier, Paris
WoMa is the contraction of Working and Making and aims at connecting ideas to matter through
collaboration. Let’s get out of that old cliché notion of separating ‘white collar dealing with gray
matter’ from ‘blue collar enjoying manual labor’! Here, there will be no starched collars – we’ll all
hike up our sleeves to work and create together.
FacLab, Faclab, le FabLab de l'Université de Cergy-Pontoise
Le FacLab: Learn, Create, Share
Open to everyone,inside Cergy-Pontoise University, in Gennevilliers, FacLab helps you with your
project’s crafting and accompany you in the use of the machines needed.
Main presenters
Izumi Aizu (IHNS/FabLab Oita)
Izumi Aizu is the Principal Researcher at the Institute for HyperNetwork Society, and also a Senior
Research Fellow & Professor at the Institute for InfoSocinomics, Tama University. He was a
member of ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee as well as Membership Advisory Committee
(1998-99). He was also member of Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of Internet
Governance Forum (IGF).
Carlo De Micheli (Head of Innovation, OpenSourceVehicle – Turin)
OSVehicle (Italy, Hong Kong)
Head of Innovation. Previously: Press, digital & media manager at OSVehicle, the company creating
TABBY, an open source hardware development platform for vehicles.
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5. Mickaël Desmoulins (FabLab Renault)
Mickael Works for engineering innovation management, converging between Renault and Nissan.
His missions are to spread and promote an innovation and design culture. He built Renault’s intern
FabLab, sustains intern innovation methodically, and contributes to open innovation strategy,
especially by representing Renault’s interests with MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory.
Guillaume Attal (WoMa)
Part of WoMa, fabrique de quartier’s seven founder, he impulses innovative practices in the urban
field and shares his experiences and knowledge.
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6. Other key participants
Laurent Ricard (FacLab, l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
Entreprener (Sc21, Imago Dream), author, lecturer, teacher and co-founder of two FabLab’s in
France (FacLab, at Cergy-Pontoise University and La Forges des possibles, at la Roche-sur-Yon).
Convinced of personal crafting impacton Industry and society who announces the third industrial
revolution.
Gerard Emond (DGCIS – STIC)
Representative for digital entreprenership at DGCIS, entreprener himself (start-up Yoosfer), and
digital project manager for mon.service-public.fr at DGME.
Marc Chataigner (WoMa)
From his previous work experience, Marc has become an anthropologist with an operational mind
set. Marc has been a key contributor in mobile phone, car and other transportation companies'
projects. He has been able to provide well balanced and thorough solutions, with great empathetic
ability for the user.
Participants and other interested by the unReport #1
Participants who attended the two days
Lionel Guillot (Renault)
Peter Troxler (independent researcher, Hogeschool Rotterdam)
Benjamin Tincq (OuiShare)
Ghislain Delabie (OuiShare,Techneo,ESTACA)
Olivier Cleach (Socioethique, Institut d'Ethique Appliquée (Université Laval de Québec), Ahmed
Eisa (ISOC Sudan)
Lara Allouan (PHD in sociology au labratoire CPN)
William Diem (WardsAuto)
Mohamed Booga (PHD student on virtual reality tools)
Persons who could not attend but are interested to follow up
Daniel Kaplan (FING)
Emmanuelle Roux (FacLab)
Camille Bosque (FacLab)
Bernard Lledos (AirLiquide i-Lab)
Fabrice Poussière (SNECMA)
Quentin Vannier (Tesla)
A rough notes taken by Izumi Aizu can be found here.
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7. 2. INPUTS - the keynotes
IHNS - Izumi Aizu
→ link to the content of the presentation
What is unConference
How to describe unConference ? It is, in my interpretation, a “Restaurant without Menu”.
Participants will make the substance. Everyone will become a Chef.
Applied to our topic (Futur of Industry, Mobility and Making), we can use this spectrum to ask
ourself : What will industry be like, when defined as a social system to produce and deliver services
to citizens? Will it be “un-industry”, understood as citizens sharing and making their own products?
Will conception and distribution include user ?
Actually, it has already started.
Digital products and exchange models have been
limited to the need for physical mobility. It can now be
applied to physical making, connecting people, digital
machines and digital processes (with data sharing). It
seems like traditional way of making and consuming is
discarded.
Physical mobility : people product and services
Digital mobility : information, money, services and
content
As an exemple, here is a competition to re-design what
an Ice-cream Truck could look like ; it appeared in the
results that even if design ideas for physical object are
rich, they were very hard to improve. In other words,
hardware improvements are pretty tough to implement,
along the fact that product development is expensive
and un-ecological.
Moreover all those difficulties to implement hardware,
traditional industry is also challenged by new comers
on the market. Similarly to what happened on the
mobile industry market, it is very likely that we will
encounter dramatic changes in the coming decades for
most existing businesses.
Applied on the automotive industry market, as car
energy source moves toward electric, so as more sale are expected (mostly for developing
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8. countries middle class), how can car manufacturers will succeed to provide their products and
services ? And will they be able to provide them the same way as the way they did so far (in the
Western countries)?
For example, the “Turtle car” project, that takes place among Ghana craftsmen car reparation
workshops makes the best out of used european cars, shipped in Ghana, where all the electronic
is taken off, the chassis and the parts are re-assemble to make a new car. That project shows that,
according to the means and technology available, according to the skills and know-how, according
to local markets, there might be other ways to design, assemble, and distribute a car, better
adapted to the customer need.
Beyond the question about emerging industrial models, mobility itself is also questioned : do we
need our own car ? Could it be self driving ? Should it be connected ? What about the Autolib
model : is it a threat ? To who ? rental or industry ? And what about Über who is now
experimenting car sharing in Japan. What is certain is that all these cultural changes are to impact
the markets, and moreover affect our perception of the product or services we want.
As a conclusions, through Carlo de Micheli’s
keynote (OSVehicle project) at the “Future of
Car Summit”, I saw that the automotive
industry value chain and assembly line both
had been changed. Thanks to all the Open
Source projects, more and more car
manufacturers seems to be interested in the
Open Source model, perhaps as a business
itself or as a new way produce ? And on the
customer side, will the habit to be permanently
connected extend to our mobility behaviors ?
Would then a universal, connected and
pluggable seat become a new way to envision
what we really need in a car ?
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9. OSVehicle - Carlo de Micheli
→ Link to the content of the presentation
→ First framework for OS vehicle. http://www.vimeo.com/osvehicle
“Build vehicles based on your needs”
Nowadays, our perception of what a vehicle is has
changed : cars are more shared, like Autolib and
ride sharing, or car pooling, new vehicles conceived
to be used only in the city environment, or even
cars that are able to drive themselves. So cars are
not only made by traditional manufacturers
anymore, but also by some other companies like
Google for instance.
If we look at the OSVehicle project, one part of it is
to make a chassis you can download as a digital
file, and build it yourself or get it built. The other part
is to develop the ecosystem of actors and services around this chassis. Also, for third party
developers, this Open Source chassis makes you start with a zero initial cost for developing a car.
Besides, it is conceived to be easy to use. The chassis that lead to see the car as a kit
(engine,wheels, etc.), can be assembled in an hour, with no specific tools nor technical skills (it took
55mn for non technician people).The OSVehicle is a city car basis you can design.
What we learn from this image, is that there is a design cultural shift : intelligence on board is more
common and expected.
As a design cultural shift, intelligence on board is more common and expected.
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Yesterday
Today
Yesterday
Today
10. The use of existing technology, based on Open Source, was chosen for OSVehicle project. This is
easy and affordable because it depends on devices used on a regular basis, like a smartphone can
be. Unlike on the Twizy car, organized around a proprietary design, and where each part is
therefore expensive. The use of Open platforms based devices brings infinite possibilities, like apps
that make your Android smartphone more than a caller/receiver device. Being digital, these tools
can be adapted to new needs and also personalized in term of dashboard for instance.
As for the choice of power source, the choice for electric engine was partly due to it’s use in
emerging countries (OSVehicle targeted futur market). We see in these countries that middle class
start to appear, and, by that, new consuming possibilities. OSVehicle positions itself as a potential
car provider on this market.
We ask ourself the question of OSVehicle relation to its environment, so OSVehicle is conceived as
a connected car, and also made for the city, regarding current regulation in Europe. As the Smart
City is one idea the city of tomorrow may look like, OSVehicle could be connected to it.
In terms of business model,OSVehicle aims at creating a new value chain, that generates activity
for new independent actors. Instead of trying to integrate all the value like car manufacturers
traditionally do, the OSVehicle project envisions this value chain as distributed and local.
The kit is distributed by OSVehicle, then all additional changes, other parts crafting, assembly and
so on, will rely on other independent actors that may become potential business. OSVehicle thinks
of those independent actors as linked to a local market and existing production facilities, which
may create sustainable local jobs.
Our experience shows us that user’s interested by making an OSVehicle our project can be either a
single person, or a community. So far OSVehicle project has received requests to start project from
90 countries, there were 10 000 downloads of the vehicle 3D CAD files, 200 request for new
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THE WAY VALUE MAY BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE NETWORK
11. projects, 100 letters of intent. Carlo di Micheli pointed out that the Interested profiles are very
different, from engineer to Porsche passionate, or college student willing to launch a startup.
Questions
Challenge is to make a sustainable ecosystem. In order to do that, you need a low cost development
and to check viability first. By making your car Open Source you lower the value of a vehicle on the
market. What is your design ?
OSVehicle team designs a platform for new car models to appear and for this chassis to be
adapted and improved. That is the main reason for us to choose Open Source; because Open
Source ecosystem is an accelerator, for our project or the one connected to it.
Do you think that one platform is enough or could there be several platforms that coexist ? And also, is
there similar projects, and if yes, what do you think about them ?
About the number of platforms, we do believe that many of
them could work, as long as they are Open Source and
collaborative. That way, the created ecosystem remains an
innovation accelerator. It shall be the same for companies
and manufacturing plants, they may join the eco-system as
soon as they contribute to that open ecosystem.
As for other projects, I can think of Local Motors, who build
a car that costs 100 000$ or the wiki speed, who is 25
000$. OSVehicle costs 6 000 $. Price would be the main
reason why we are not positioned on the same market, or
that we do not have the same project in the end. We want it
to be affordable.
What is your business model ?
It is “sell kits and Do It Together experiences”, like a
consulting group. We can give to a group of persons an
interesting workshop based on how to build and design a
car, in a collaborative way.
Are you competitive with manufacturers, and what about the traditional production line efficiency ?
One way to lower the costs is to use existant items. Yes, we are competitive, as we depend on
standardized parts and low cost development, or even reuse. We use existing manufacturing
companies and their efficiency to produce our chassis. We also did conceived it to be easy to
produce.
What is your use for virtual reality ? Is it to design cars ?
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12. We do mainly use virtual reality to test car’s interface or for
crash testing. We also use this tool in a dynamic way, for
simulation experience.
What would be your project main problem ? And your main
advantages ?
Battery is our main problem, as it represents 20 to 30 % of
the car’s price.
Our main advantage would be that we did build a platform
and a lot of technologies can be applied or tested on it.
What if Google asks to buy your company ?
Personally speaking, and not for all of OSVehicle team, it’s
fine with me, as long as the project remains OpenSource.
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13. Renault - Mickaël Desmoulins
Renault’s purpose is to facilitate access to mobility
for everyone, through more than a 130 000 selling
points. This gives you an idea of our company’s
scale and purpose.
Nowadays, Renault company realizes a change of
paradigm in the automotive industry, and also a
change of markers. The relationship of this industry
toward climate and economy has changed the
perception of what mobility is.
On average, cars are used 2 to 3% of time and by
1.2 person. Car manufacturers have now new users
with different habits and ways to use the car. Also,
we see new players entering this market, like Google or others, developing their own product.
Cities are also changing, as the way we move within it. For instance car sharing or services like
Autolib reveal that citizens’ needs regarding the vehicle, are now different. We do not use our own
car, and we don’t use it for the same things.
An other shift is the opposition between digital and manufacturing way of thinking. Large
manufacturers think more of standardized items, whereas the digital industries think more of
personalized and customizable devices.
In our industrial field, we now can see two different streams : relocalization and democratization.
Relocalization in term of production and democratization of markets as old competitors remain and
new ones emerge. For this industry, it is a cultural shift to have new comers and also to answer
new needs, like customization. Traditional car manufacturers stopped to be only car providers on a
stable market.
New challenges also come from the design field. For instance, cars are designed and produced
with new digital tools, like 3D printing. It is a challenge
Renault has to integrate in its research field.
To talk more precisely about innovation, at Renault, we
think of it in two ways : exploitation (a classical one) and
exploration (a disruptive one). Exploitation is the fact that
you use a validated idea and exploit it the way it is. This is
the field of known things. Exploration is new and
uncertain, but it helps new ways to conceive and produce
to appear.
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14. At Renault’s FabLab, we see ourselves more connected to the exploration side. But let’s see what’s
its use inside the company.
We do realize that the FabLab helps to clarify and share mid term and long term vision. By being
open to everyone in the company, and through all the exchanges that take place there, FabLab
helps to give everyone in the company a prospective view.
This space’s mixity, in term of different publics, helps workers from different part of the company to
mix and share visions. By enabling company’s workers to get a more shared vision of Renault, it
helps to boost innovation capabilities in every section of the company.
The fablab is a sharing, talking and creative space, for everyone within Renault. For us, the fact that
everybody can contribute, explore, and develop oneself is a reality shift. But giving more workers
the right tools, to grasp better the whole vision and purpose of what they contribute to by working,
gives them purpose and boosts, nonetheless productivity, but also feedbacks from every
department of the company.
Fablab is a new playground. People can make their own tools in it, work in a different way, or
improve their creativity in a disruptive approach. Serendipity, as transversal exchanges are current
in the lab, by sharing with other person’s with different habits, it helps to resolve a lot of particular
problems. Everyone share their innovative projects, through different type of outputs like video,
sketches or 3d printed parts.
It is also a nice way to ask what you could not do inside the company, as you feel more free to
speak, and also to confront to the reality of
making, in an iterative way. It exercises
agility as you use different media for
different purposes.
We talk about being ‘global ambidextrous’ :
it is a place where people meet and join
creativity network. We are, through the
FabLab, linked to companies’ FabLabs
outside Renault, and other structures like
Usine IO, a Makerspace oriented toward
industrialisation, or ICI Montreuil, more craft
oriented.
Questions
Is there any project at Renault’s Fablab of a vehicle user can design himself ?
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15. We don’t have such project at the moment. Our Fablab is first a community ressource, in order to
boost connections among employees within the enterprise. Our Fablab is restricted to our
company users.
What are the results so far? Are people coming to the Fablab ?
So far, we see people coming from each part of Renault company. The projects we have seen in
the Fablab are mostly personal ones, and not really for rapid prototyping of Renault’s projects yet.
There were no defined objectives
when opening this space at
Renault. Nevertheless, we did build
a great community among the
users, and through them further
within the company. Now, it is
considered a success within the
enterprise.
On site, a lot of talking happen, lot
of enablers reveal themselves. We
also host many inside workshops.
Coming to the Fablab is now
considered as a habits disruption.
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16. 3. OUTCOMES - the questions
Given the Future of Industry, Making & Mobility first unConference, the co-hosting team started
with emerging questions. Those were assessed during the unConference discussions among the
participants, and then instead of answering these question, more questions arose udring the
discussions.
At that stage, the FIMM unConference has no’t produced any answers, as it was not meant to be.
On the opposite, the FIMM unConference happened to be a great place to share the questions an
expert and multi-disciplinary crowd has in common.
The questions we started with,
when setting up the FIMM unConference #1
■ What is the new shape of mobility for the next two decades?
■ What if we could distribute the way to produce cars/mobility, or access to cars/mobility
■ What if the end users become part of the production/distribution chain for mobility
services in the era of distributed manufacturing?
■ What are the key elements and current activities that would change the mobility? Who is
working on these and how?
■ What should be done? What should be avoided?
■ What are the links and possible combination in-between the “Industry 4.0” and the
“Distributed Manufacturing” models? Any “Third way?”
■ What are the roles of mobile network services?
■ What should be done for the next 12 months?
■ How does Internet impact the mobility, the way of making and using the automobiles?
■ At the age of internet, objects and services more than only softwares are hacked,
improved by users. What industry and production process will be relevant to produce
such "not ready to use objects" but rather "objects as resources" for end users?
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17. The questions we ended up with,
after the end of the FIMM unConference #1
■ As the Industry 4.0 and the Distributed Manufacturing models emerge, is there a third way
? Around an “open factory” model ?
■ As the industry rethink its relationship to the supply chain, how does the ecosytem of
contributors structures itself ?
■ As the vehicle hardware embed more and more pieces of software, thus entering the
‘physital’ era, what is then the right scale at which to structure one’s business ?
■ As customers becomes more and more agile and enticed to hack what they use,
industries shall rethink what is the place users may hold in the manufacturing/distribution
processes ?
■ As the markets evolves toward smaller series, how the ways to certify vehicle for road
safety shall evolve to enable third parties to take place into the process and maintain the
level of safety for the end user ?
■ As the vehicle produces data, as much as its use and its production or maintenance, how
to collect, structure, segment and distribute these data to make the best use out of
them ? In term of potential business as much as in terms of road safety.
1. Industry 4.0 vs Distributed Manufacturing
Cultural shift
As the industry embraces digitalization, as manufacturing embed computerized machines, as
design processes develop into digital collaborative models, as most files and data constitute the
digital realm of companies, industrial developments take ground in what appeared to be a digital
‘milieu’. Apart from the manufacturing efficiency through machines, the digitalization of work brings
along disruptive ways to collaborate and innovate, within corporation or in-between contributors
themselves.
As for today, the two main directions the industry seems to be heading to are the ‘Industry 4.0’
model and the ‘Distributed Manufacturing’ model:
■ Industry 4.0 is a collective term for technologies and concepts of value chain
organization.[1] Based on the technological concepts of cyber-physical systems, the
Internet of Things[2] and the Internet of Services,[3] it facilitates the vision of the Smart
Factory. - cf. Wikipedia
■ Distributed Manufacturing is a form of decentralized manufacturing practiced by
enterprises using a network of geographically dispersed manufacturing facilities that are
coordinated using information technology. - cf. Wikipedia
From those two directions, the FIMM unConference #1 attendees wandered if there were to be a
third way, combining the Industry 4.0 technical efficiency and the Distributed Manufacturing eco-
systemic agility.
From a large company point of view, both of these industrial orientations are driven by the need of
most industries to be able to deliver small sets of items, and not be bound to produce series of
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18. 100.000 pieces at once. Succeeding to lower that threshold of what minimum quantity of items to
be produced in order to remain profitable would mean lowering the cost of entering a new market,
thus enabling businesses to innovate and experiment new lines of products.
From the entrepreneurial community perspective, Fablabs are considered as the best resources to
enable the Distributed Manufacturing model to emerge and enable individuals to start their own
business. But the experiences shared among the FIMM unConference #1 attendees proved that
the Fablab business model cannot be only built on developing the assets required for the
Distributed Manufacturing network. Even if Fablabs and Makerspaces stand as ressource places
for entrepreneurs and makers, and thus potential distribution knots of the Distributed
Manufacturing network, Fablabs and Markerspaces do create their main value on coaching,
teaching and guiding individuals to achieve their goal, not on producing and selling end products
only.
Following that idea of the third way path, the FIMM unConference #1 attendees wandered what if
large companies and industries would massively go into the Open Source field, following Tesla
footsteps for instance. That path was coined among the FIMM unConference #1 attendees as the
‘Open Factory’ model.
Put in a simplistic way, if a regular factory and its assets remain restricted for everyday people, a
Fablab is, as an attempt to give access to everything, a ‘workshop open to the public’. Along with
these accessible tools and machines, in these Fablab places governance was first meant to be
opened to each contributors and each project a reason to collaborate.
Moving further along that path, when large corporations today launch intern fablabs, they aim at
embedding these governance and collaboration modes within the company’s working processes.
As mentioned during the FIMM unConference #1, the ‘Open Factory’ model may reach the point
where, as a beginning, part of the factory assets - tools, machines, knowledge - may be set
‘open’. As if, while going ‘open’, the factory was getting closer from the Fablab initial idea,
technology made accessible to each project holder.
That is how the FIMM unConference #1 attendees came to think of an ‘open factory’ as an open
platform, on the model of Open Source Ecology, a platform aiming at sharing designs of all
essential tools to build a sustainable settlement.
From this transformation emerges the question of that ‘Open Factory’ business models : if not
based on intellectual property, assets property and end product sales, what can be learned from
Open Source Models.
From that field of discussions, arose a set of questions
■ What qualities of both models could be combined into that Open Factory model ? And
what shall we expect from it ?
■ In the Open Factory model, what data or knowledge manufacturers could (and what
should they not) release open source to fuel the ecosystem of potential contributors ?
■ How to evaluate the value of yet un-shared data or knowledge ?
■ What could be business models of such an Open Source design and manufacturing
processes ?
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19. ■ How could it be relevant to change scale ? Scale-up from small series (up to 100
products) to large series (from 10 000 pieces) ? And scale-down from large series to small
series when needed ?
■ What is the added value of the “brand” (such as Renault, Tesla) if they don’t “own” the
end product design and distribution anymore ?
■ What is the value of all the assets large manufacturers manage ? Shall they make the best
out of their idle capacities in existing infrastructures (like Amazon B2B services) ?
■ How to design for a ‘Distributed Manufacturing’, i.e. design without mastering the
assembly line, design for an eco-system with not yet defined format nor set of tools ?
■ Are Fablab’s ment for people or for emerging project to test and produce equipment ?
■ Following the Microsoft exemple (giving software to start-ups so they may develop their
project with microsoft tools), can we think of manufacturers as providers or sponsors ?
For tools only ?
■ Rises the question about Industry role toward open and collaborative projects : is the
assembly line ? The branding ? To produce in large quantities ?
■ As innovation increases innovation, should it remain collaborative and distributed ? Or
may projects that come from Open Source become stand alone business ?
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20. 2. Design and manufacturing eco-system
Cultural shift
On one hand, the Internet world re-introduce the peer-to-peer (P2P) economy possibilities. In the
software industry, the ‘Agile’ method and Creative Commons licences have shown how an industry
may reshape the way it runs and thinks about its ecosystem.
In the ‘traditional’ industries, where the B2B actors of the network are bonded by buyer/supplier
contracts, from the R&D, design or engineering parts, all the knowledge and working process may
be ‘proprietary’ (or the integrated value). In the P2P environment, these processes gain in efficiency
and quality when they are collaborative (or distributed and adopted among the network).
The FIMM unConference #1 participants did realize that, the collaborative way of creating services
and products is inspired in its form and management, by typical managerial technics of putting
people in competition, but adapted to a distributed production way. The key word being
“emulation” and “advice sharing”, that seems to be Renault Fablab purpose.
Because with Open Source, user get to understand what he uses and to how it is built, that path
nourishes creativity, mainly because when user know how things are made, it is easier for him to
fork it or hack it. For instance ,in the case of OSVehicle, they designed a chassis as a platform that
enables any user or company to design their own cars from it.
In a P2P ecosystem, the value has to be distributed among the ecosystem for it to sustains and for
contributors activity to grow. There may not be any asset centralization. The value there is not only
based on money, but it may rather be knowledge, reputation, network, etc. Most often, there are
values of the Commons.
On one hand, that balance has yet to remain, and while such a loose structure appears to be
relevant for generating new ideas and solutions, the FIMM unConference #1 participants thought it
may not ensure a stable development of the network. For instance, when Tesla releases its battery
patent for an ecosystem to emerge, Makerbot closed its open source system, or Huffington Post
became a private corporation without giving incentives all the first contributions, and the common
value created is gone (or privatized).
On the other hand, as the historical industrial leaders’ power fades, all other alternatives
businesses gain legitimacy. Most of the technical and managerial innovations FIMM unConference
#1 participants discussed were not new. They are just not banned anymore, and even taken
seriously.
Among these alternatives have arose the Open Source models. Beyond the name Open Source,
there are not always fully ‘open’ ressources, but licensed knowledge or data. That Open Source
community has tried and tested different business models to last (WikiPedia, Tesla, Arduino, etc.),
but more interestingly, these Open Source projects happened to be game changers on their
markets ; Arduino selling PCB’s as a way to penetrate it, Tesla sharing their electrical battery patent
to boost their electric charger format adoption, etc.
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21. During these reflexions, the FIMM unConference #1 participants also thought that Open Factory
could serve an open village, based on a network. This network would include local production
means,and a more global network of open ressources.
Questions
■ How to distribute the value among the ecosystem to make it last and keep its balance ?
How to ensure a sustainable distribution ?
■ If there is no binding contract, what are the necessary rules/values the ecosystem actors
needs to share or agree on in order to work ?
■ Economical model to distribute/attribute value ? Arduino model ?
■ How to understand the innovation generated by Open Source processes and
collaborative imagination ?
■ In an ecosystemic organization, with peer reviews, when shall the certification take part ?
(In the automotive industry, it used to be the first batch of a new product produced in
large quantities on the assembly line ; in an open manufactory world, the homologation
may be the parts and pieces, or even the worker and assembler himself)
■ Which ecosystems are likely to last : end-user’s ecosystems ? brand as a standard?
■ As the ecosystem may structure itself as an Open Air Factory, could the ecosystem
become a brand in the end (a patented standard kind of) ?
■ Are these Open Source based companies creating a new market or invading the old
one ?
■ As this “Open Factory” idea would emerge as distributed, open and able to produce from
standardized tools and files, and since fablabs are more oriented for experiments and
prototypes, due to their heterogeneity, may the standardisation of tools (3D printers, CNC,
laser, Arduino, …) and process be the right answer?
■ How these tools could change and take support on existing facilities in order to be able to
suit different scales
■ In term of regulation, in which direction should industrial lobby weight, in their business
self-interest or in their P2P ecosystem interest?
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22. 3. Vehicle in a ‘physital’ age
Cultural shift
As was mentioned in the introduction of this unConference #1, objects has now to be thought as
‘softwares embedded hardwares’. We enter a ‘physital’ world.
Since already decades, vehicles follow the same path, taking on board more and more pieces of
softwares. OSVehicle project goes even further by, for instance, using Android tablet as part of their
onboard devices. The ‘standard’ is to be understood as the essential common denominator upon
which to build an ecosystem, may it be the car or the process itself.
By re-dismantling down the end-product into autonomous parts, OSVehicle team brings to the
table the question of the industry ‘standard’ : is the ’platform’ the correct standard, the ‘finished
and ready to use vehicle’, or even a ‘fleet of vehicles’?
The question of ‘standard’ leads to the question of ‘compatibility’ in-between parts and pieces, or
even processes. In the software industry as much as in the hardware industry, the standard is here
to allow third parties to work together and develop within the eco-system. And to reach a
standard, either regulation apply (in automotive industry for instance) or adoption rate distinguished
the winner (Tesla, Arduino, Blue-ray, VHS, USB, …). Following the example of Android for
smartphones, a platform may for instance be suited for individuals, small companies or large
corporations to build their own apps, accessories or even smartphone on top of it.
Pointing out what the standard is for an industry boils down to asking what is the ‘core element’ of
the system, i.e. where value may aggregate. FIMM unConference #1 participants’ bet was that in a
‘physital’ era, there is no more ‘finished objects’, but rather ‘ready to hack’ parts. Their vision
points out that the value may not be anymore only in the end product (i.e. the vehicle), but in the
way to produce-edit-distribute a service (i.e. Car as a service).
As the discussion went on, it let to crystallize even more around the topic of business models and
trying to identify what is the ‘basic element’ of that business model : the ready-to-use vehicle? the
ready-to-make chassis and platform? the fleet of cars-on-demand ? As the market evolves and as
the customer’s expectations evolve, the brand that could evolve according to them ?
Questions
■ What if industry aims at limited series rather than large series, the mass-produced
business model principle doesn’t apply ; so what shall it be ?
■ What is the difference between the customization (of a standard certified object) versus
the creation of a single item (a unique and non standard object) ?
■ What kind of people is looking for customization and/or creation of single item?
■ What is the best way to reach compatibility ? By imposing standard (law) or by reaching
mass adoption (Tesla, Arduino)?
■ Shall the standard be closed (Apple iPhone dock) or open (mini USB) for better business ?
What is the most relevant economical ecosystem to support the vehicle ni a ‘physital’
age?
■ What about “open platforms”, such as Android ? Car manufacturers don’t want to
become smartphone docks, so they develop their own navigation systems and software
platform ; while OSVehicle sees Android as an interesting platform to use and easily add
functionalities.
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23. ■ What security features to implement in the open systems ?
■ Where lays the value of software versus hardware ? Do they have to be embedded always
?
4. Certification in a peer-to-peer industry
Cultural shift
Hacking and customizing tools and objects have continued to take place through the industrial
age, but back then it was not named ‘hacking’ nor ‘forking’ yet. It was merely a way to adapt a tool
or object to better suit one’s uses.
And so, as mass produced products slowly reached the market, the middle-man was to adapt
industrial objects to the end-users’ needs. Until the point where regulations were expected in order
to ensure that the industrial end product will retain all the specifications it was designed for before
being sold to that middle man.
And then think about the automotive industry, with local regulations and homologation
requirements (different in EU, US or other places), that aim at allowing only ‘road safety approved’
vehicles on the road.
In the digital age, hacking is the similar process as degrading and improving physical object. In the
automotive industry, similarly as you may customize the color of your car by painting it yourself, you
may be able to tweak its driving skills by hacking into the code.
As the hardware and software may be hacked, setting the device and the code “open” enables
many contributors to fork and bring innovations along the process. Most of Open Source projects
develop along that path.
But then, as the industrial-and-closed end-product could be ‘approved’ by certifying its design as
well as the assembly line that produces it in million identical pieces, how would a relevant
‘certification’ process apply to such ‘open’ industries, where each part may be hacked ? Shall
items like brakes, fuel, security, not be ‘open’ ?
Moreover, as for today the ‘road safety certification’ is framed upon the first batch of vehicles to be
then produced, in large quantity at the exact replica ; as mentioned in the ‘Open Factory’, while
industries are aiming at producing smaller series of identical objects, how would then a certification
process be relevant and cost saving on a smaller batch ?
During the FIMM unConference #1 discussions, participants even went further, wandering if there
was a need for such mandatory ‘certification’ process ; what about detailing the licences, and
allowing users to ‘use at their own risk’ (i.e. ‘use at your own risk’ licence) ?
Questions
■ At which scale could the certification process appear ?
■ Certify each parts individually (like today)? the assembly machines and process (like today)
? The machine operators and workers skills ? Each users’ skills and ability to ‘hack and
edit’ or ‘use only’ ?
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24. ■ Should fragments from a whole object to be distinctly certified ?
■ In EU, OSVehicle or Twizy are running under 80km/h, in order to have less road safety
homologation issues, and have more freedom to innovate ; what about regular vehicle
case ?
■ Apart from the speed, what other fields could be segmented in order to allow freedom to
innovate on different parts of the vehicle ? Owner’s skills, peer reviews, … ?
■ What could help to make the certification evolve ?
■ Corporations used to sell “certified” products ; may they succeed to sell things without
having them certified ?
■ What responsibility for “users” (i.e. “at your own risk” license)
5. User’s role as a contributor
Cultural shift
In the Internet era, after the web 1.0 emerged the web 2.0 when customers eventually had
something to say, share and comment. On top of the customers associations, the Internet network
transformed the posture of the customer so dramatically that all major brands now engage
themselves with community management and envision their brand as a ‘discussion platform’.
The enduser is not only a customer anymore, he/she has something to produce, promote, share,
interact, etc. The interconnected digital tools he/she use allow him/her to organize him/herself
among peers. With Internet, the peer-to-peer organizations have now powerful tools to help
organization and governance perform.
The user may still remain a customer, meaning that he pays for an object or a service ; but the
important part here is that this contribution in money
(financial contribution) is only a single type of
contribution that may be asked to users, while they
could - and would like to - contribute on many
different levels.
Today, online and offline user may be a contributor, a
creator, a distributor, a designer, an assembler, a
reseller, a buyer, a worker, a project leader, an idea
owner, … He may contribute in different phases ;
during the idea generation, the design part, the
promotion and distribution, the experimentation, … or
even only in data production, advice or improvement
ideas. As technology and user experience design
evolve, it gets easier for even unskilled people to
contribute or make their own project.
Taking that figure of the user, also coined ‘pro-sumer’, when he faces ‘physital’ objects (i.e.
software embedded hardware), he becomes either a ‘hacker’, forking what could be forked, or an
‘entrepreneur’, developing new business opportunities among users. In both cases he feel more
responsible and aware of what he uses and consumes.
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25. Questions
■ On ‘physital’ objects, what could be the ‘rights’ for users, from ‘use only’, to ‘edit’, to
‘hack’, …?
■ What skills or status shall the user reach in order to unlock the ‘edit rights’ or ‘hacking
rights’?
■ What data collection (incoming) and data providing solution (dispatching) useres would be
willing to contribute to ?
■ For which feedback or reward ?
■ Can we help / allow people to build their own object or car ? So what would be the use
for manufacturers ?
■ Are pro summers able / willing to design and produce it ? Or only enjoy it ?
■ How many potential pro-sumers are there out there ?
6. Data sphere and value
Cultural shift
In the fast growing Internet era, as objects and behaviors produce data that may be relevant to
markets, it becomes impossible to design and produce commodities that do not fit into that
framework.
The data business aims at creating ‘intelligence’ out of aggregated data sets, in order to gain
efficiency in production, safety on materials of parts, performance in serving end-users
expectations, or event evaluate team’s member contributions to reward them. Such data
businesses cannot be avoided by companies; if one part of the ecosystem doesn’t take its data
into account, a third party company shall soon do it for them and sell them that service.
Regarding the automotive industry, the manufacturing processes and materials are monitored and
data are useful to improve them, technical parts and assembled products are made to take part in
the Internet of things, data on the end-user’s behaviors are harvested, and finally, market data are
also aggregated to provide some market intelligence.
Along all the product life cycle, from design to manufacturing, from use to maintenance, from
selling performance to use variability, data are produced. Two main business have emerged, one
about collecting and structuring the incoming data ( regarding ‘users’ behaviors’ data and ‘parts
and pieces’ data, ‘assembling’ data, etc.), the second about providing and segmenting the
aggregated data, for them to be useful and monetized (for end users, for manufacturers, for
designers, …).
Question
■ Who may share data, use data, etc ?
■ How anonymous must these data be in order to be collected and provided ?
■ How to evaluate the value of data ? or their ‘sharability’ ?
■ When provided and distributed, what is the revenue stream of this data business ? Where
is the added value, in the content (data) or the distribution network (marketing) ?
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26. ■ For each data set, who owns the intellectual property, the producer (even if he/she
doesn’t know what data he/she produces) ? The collector who structure the data ?
■ All along the manufacturing process, and before/after during the product lifetime, what are
the relevant data to collect ? And with what structure?
■ Similarly, to each markets, what are the relevant data to provide, and for which segment?
■ Are there new markets for used Cars ? For Open Source hardware ? For traditional
industry ?
■ Are manufacturer the best actors to collect and provide data? Who are the challenging
actors on their market? (Waze, Google, …)
■ What are the correct ‘elements’ size : is it the ‘vehicle’ data? the ‘parts’ data? the ‘pool of
vehicles’ data? At which level data collection/providing is the most relevant? (and
business wise)
■ What if vehicle driving and manufacturing becomes just data production activities ? What
if there only value was data production ?
■ How to design an object or a car for data production ? How to design and produce data
sensitive goods ?
■ Where is it more efficient to put your knowledge, into an automaton or into a worker ?
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27. 4. CONCLUSION
When witnessing the way these questions matured and got structured, the image of a new balance
emerged : from the manufacturer —> commodity —> customer linear path, the idea of industry
moves toward an interconnected Open Factory <—> Physital Object <—> Users eco-system.
After discussing among car manufacturers, Fablab people and researchers, it appeared that the
linear manufacturing process, in which the car manufacturer incorporates all the added value and
ensure and end product safe and ready to be used by a customer, seems not to be the only
relevant one any more.
VALUE AGGREGATION AMONG THE LINEAR MANUFACTURING PROCESS
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Certified
Manufacturer Vehicle CustomerSuppliers
ecosystem
Probate
on the first batch
Aggregated
value
28. As most large industries power fades along with the question of how to maintain high margins,
alternatives distributed business models are less denigrated and even appear to hold some
interesting value production.
VALUE DISTRIBUTION AMONG THE ALTERNATIVE MANUAFCTURING ECO-SYSTEM
May it be the assembly line, the supply chain, the design process, the value aggregation, all these
tracks seem to follow what the Boston Consulting Group coined as The Deconstruction of Value
Chains
As a conclusion, we may add that the topic interests many people, from students to
manufacturers, to car dealers, to open source guys, to software and hardware crowd, etc.
Lastly, this first FIMM unConference encounter opened the path to schedule next meetings around
the FIMM topics. Later in April in Rotterdam and in June in Yokohama will be hosted a second
session, where Renault team and OSVehicle team are invited to follow up these questioning around
the Future of Industry, Making & Mobility with the multi-disciplinary crowd who will attend that
second session.
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contributors
ecosystem
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actors and the parts
Distributed
value
Data
29. . METHODOLOGY
Organisation and methodology
Using online tools
For the preparation work, we used such online tools as Google Document, Skype and Facebook.
Regular Skype meeting was held almost every week since Jan 15, 2015. Shared document was
especially effective in collecting all relevant information and material into one space, using different
time to add and modify the plan. It helped us to define the topic and gather the speakers and other
guests
Facebook closed group FIMM was also useful in exchanging rough ideas, sharing reference
material, bringing new people, and also keeping contacts with some people who could not attend
the meeting, such as people in Oita, Japan.
The unConference format
The unConference format will help us to best explore these issues with the persons attending. An
unConference is an event where the themes discussed are proposed and coined by the
participants themselves.
This event will take place at the FabLab de la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (co-host of this
event), on the 5th and 6th of March, from 14:00 to 18:00. We scheduled into 2 half-days to enable
the participants to immerse into the topic and build a collective vision without having the stress and
exhaustion of a single full day.
The outcomes of this March session is gathered and structured into an “unReport”, then shared
with each participants of the session, with their discrepancy, and after that most portion will be
published in public.
This unConference takes part into a Research program on the changing industry on social and
digital fabrication carried out by Izumi Aizu (The Institute for HyperNetwork Society & FabLab Oita,
Japan), and shall be continued in a second edition in Japan in June later this year.
Day 1 & 2 schedule
Day 1 - (Mar 5 from 2pm to 7pm)
■ Keynotes and Q&A session with key players : Izumi Aizu, OSVehicle, Renault
Fablab
■ Definition of topics among all participants and discussion in sub-groups.
■ Reception at Bancs Publics
Day 2 - (Mar 6, from 1pm to 5pm)
■ Follow up of Day 1 discussions in sub-groups
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30. ■ Outcomes of the group sessions:
■ Major issues of the future of industry shared by the participants
■ Will and guidelines to keep on developing the FIMM unConference
Exercises
Day 1
On day one, in order to define topics for the workshops, every participant was asked to write down
the questions and topics he/she wanted to discuss, in regard to the keynotes and our main
unConference subject.
This process was meant to focus and identify what we, as actors of this unConference,
understood as valuable. In other words, that list of topics appeared as a reflexion on the same
thing by different eyes.
We did organize all these topics during this unConference, and
build some subjects families, as reported below. We have finally
voted to choose the ones we wanted to work on on Day 1.
Here are the topics and key words that emerged :
■ Regulation and Environment
■ Mobility : Services Data and Tools
■ User : Designer ? Engineer ? User ?
■ Education and markets : new markets and new
producers
■ Design and models : business models for shared
innovation
■ Digital manufacturing : managerial, economical and
technical issues.
Day 2
As for Day 2, the topics we discussed appeared after a remark by a participant : practical cases
would be more interesting, and more productive to reach the main unConference purpose.
One of the idea of methodology, we did not end up using on Day 2, but we feel like relating in this
report, was to use as a discussion start commercial videos from Renault and OSVehicle. Each of
these videos translate different visions of the automotive industry. The idea was to ask participants
in subgroups to imagine the future ideal automotive industry envisioned by Renault or by
OSVehicle, and imagine the anti-ideal automotive industry envisioned by Renault or OSVehicle. The
objective was to list the pro’s and con’s of each industrial vision.
Not being able to run this exercice during that unConference session, we did nevertheless hold to
two practical cases as discussion topics agreed by all participants. Then we did form two teams,
each team working on one of the case first, and then switching to the other one.
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31. The two topics were :
■ What would an Open Factory look like ?
■ What could be a joint venture between Renault and OSVehicle ?
Each workshop had a moderator, and someone taking notes. This could be the same person.
They were two hours long. It took the form of a conversation, trying more to converge, build and
understand, more than being right or defending an idea. We did learn a lot from one another, and
more, together.
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32. . GLOSSARY
Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 is a collective term for technologies and concepts of value chain organization. Based
on the technological concepts of cyber-physical systems, theInternet of Things[2] and the Internet
of Services, it facilitates the vision of the Smart Factory. Within the modular structured Smart
Factories of Industry 4.0, cyber-physical systems monitor physical processes, create a virtual copy
of the physical world and make decentralized decisions. Over the Internet of Things, Cyber-
physical systems communicate and cooperate with each other and humans in real time. Via the
Internet of Services, both internal and cross-organizational services are offered and utilized by
participants of the value chain.
Distributed Manufacturing
Distributed manufacturing also known as distributed production and local manufacturing is a form
of decentralized manufacturing practiced by enterprises using a network of geographically
dispersed manufacturing facilities that are coordinated using information technology. It can also
refer to local manufacture via the historic cottage industry model, or manufacturing that takes place
in the homes of consumers.
Fablab and other makerspaces
A Fablab (fabrication laboratory) is a small-scale workshop offering (personal) digital fabrication.
A fab lab is generally equipped with an array of flexible computer controlled tools that cover several
different length scales and various materials, with the aim to make "almost anything". This includes
technology-enabled products generally perceived as limited to mass production.
While fab labs have yet to compete with mass production and its associated economies of scale in
fabricating widely distributed products, they have already shown the potential to empower
individuals to create smart devices for themselves. These devices can be tailored to local or
personal needs in ways that are not practical or economical using mass production.
Makerspace
A Makerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, makerspace or hackspace) is a community-operated
workspace where people with common interests, often in computers, machining, technology,
science, digital art or electronic art, can meet, socialize and collaborate.
Third places
In community building, the third place (or third space) is the social surroundings separate from the
two usual social environments of home and the workplace. Oldenburg calls one's "first place" the
home and those that one lives with. The "second place" is the workplace — where people may
actually spend most of their time. Third places, then, are "anchors" of community life and facilitate
and foster broader, more creative interaction.
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33. To Fork / to Hack
To use an existing item for another purpose than it’s original one, by knowing how it is build.
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34. Open Source
In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a universal
access via a free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that
design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone.
Commons
The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society,
including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in
common, not owned privately. Today, the commons are also understood within a cultural sphere.
These commons include literature, music, arts, design, film, video, television, radio, information,
software and sites of heritage. The crowdsourcing movement and among others Wikipedia are
examples of the production and maintenance of common goods by certain communities in the
form or videos, music, or encyclopedic knowledge that can be freely accessed by anyone without
a central authority.
Peer-to-Peer
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions
tasks or work loads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the
application. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes. It is also used to name person
to person exchanges.
Smart City
A smart city (also smarter city) uses digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to
reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its
citizens. Key 'smart' sectors include transport, energy, health care, water and waste.
Note : Rapport “La nouvelle grammaire du succès : La transformation numérique de l'économie
française” - Philippe Lemoine
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35. 5. ENDNOTE
This unConference #1 and its unReport #1 were produced mainly by the following three people.
■ Izumi Aizu (IHNS/FabLab Oita)
■ Guillaume Attal (WoMa)
■ Marc Chataigner (WoMa)
Special thanks to Carlo De Micheli(Head of Innovation, OpenSourceVehicle – Turin), Mickaël
Desmoulins (FabLab Renault), and David Forgeron (Carrefour Numérique²)
We also like to express our deep appreciation to NTT Communications for their financial and moral
support.
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