OSE Specifications Metric Score

The questionnaire below can be used to determine whether a product meets the OSE specifications. Each question counts as 1 or 0 depending on a positive or negative answer. There are 45 questions. The score is communicated on a scale of 0-100 in percent units by taking the tallied score, dividing by 45, and multiplying by 100.

Economic Significance

• Is it relevant for meeting the material needs of humans?

Distributive Economics

• Does the economic model distribute economic power?

Transformative Nature of Enterprise

• Does it promote community and global resilience?

Systems Design

• Does it consider the complete human and natural ecosystem?

Ecology

• Is it good for the environment?
• Does the machine fit other OSE Product Ecologies?

Development Process

• Is participation in the process entirely voluntary?
• Can anyone join or leave the development group at any time?
• Does the collaborative development process utilize the input of diverse stakeholders?
• Are the steps and results of the development process documented?

Simplicity of design

• Is it low Cost?
• Does it have Long Life?
• Is it modular?
• Is it designed for disassembly?

Design for scalability

• Can it be scaled up?
• Can it be scaled down?
• Is it easily scalable?

Localization

Materials

• Are materials used in production local?
• Is raw material production local?

Production

• Is product production local?
• Is the machinery used in production process open source?
• Is the machinery used in production process locally fabricated?

Economic Feasibility and Replicability

• Is there minimal overhead requirements for production?
• Is there minimal waste?
• Are R&D costs shared by a number of stakeholders?
• Does documentation exist to facilitate replication?
• Are production facilities funded by a stakeholder community?

Product Evolution

• Is there continual product development?
• Is there a user community?

Fabrication Facilities

• Do flexible fabrication facilities or open source microfactories exist for producing the given product?
• Is there a way in which an interested individual can participate in a sweat equity, learn-as-you-go production run?

Open Business Model

• Is there a Business Plan?
• Are enabling technical details available in the business plan?

Open Documentation

• Is content Open Source?
• Is content readily accessible (downloadable)?
• Are there design drawings?

Designs

• Are design drawings available in open source CAD?
• Are fabrication procedures detailed?
• Is economic analysis available?
• Is ergonomic analysis available?

Bill of Materials (BOM)

• Is there a parts list?
• Is Sourcing of parts listed?
• Are prices of parts listed?

Distributive Enterprise Assistance

• Is producer training available?
• Is startup assistance available?

Links

• OSE Specifications
• Original work on product selection for the GVCS from 2008 - OSE Proposal Product Selection Metric