OSE Enterprise Training

Introduction

There are 4 main months in the enterprise training: (1) technology; (2) product development; enterprise operations and marketing; (4) the OSE Chapter and facility. These months build upon each other.

1. Month 1 - Technology - This is the nuts and bolts: how do you build the highest performance, lowest cost, lifetime design 3D printers, plastic recycling infrastructure (shredders and filament makers), CNC torch tables? Collaborative design training. The 4th week of Month 1 is a design exercise where we work on collaborative design of a new product or module to develop collaborative design skills, while soliciting feedback from subject matter experts.
2. Month 2 - Enerprise - Learning about collaborative and open source product design to start a hardware enterprise. This is about the product side: how to use the Microfactory and global collaboration to produce viable products.
   1. Week 1: The economics and ergonomics of production. Capacity: understanding the things that can be built with the Microfactory. Production rates. CAM files generation. Basic economic output levels. Applying Extreme Manufacturing to common products. Hands-on exercises: data collection on production rates.
   2. Week 2: Development Template: inside out of an open source product development. Supply chain. Translating OSE Specifications into Requirements. Product Ecologies. Module-Based Design. Construction Set Approach. Rapid Prototyping. Testing and Data Collection. Hands-on exercise: starting a Development Template for a new product.
   3. Week 3: Hydraulics, mechanics, structures (back of envelope to FEM), CNC, electronics, thermal, agriculture, energy, Waste System Design Guide, housing, precision motion design guides: how to design any critical infrastructure.
   4. Week 4: Design exercise: taking what we learned about design and the design process to design and prototype an improvement on the filament maker.
3. Month 3 - Organization - Enterprise Operations and Marketing
   1. Week 1:
4. Month 3 - Organization. How do you start an OSE Chapter that is part of a global movement to shift the economy from proprietary to collaborative? If you want to start a microfactory or land-based facility - we teach you how. This is for people who are serious about creating the open source economy.
   1. Week 1 - The elements of a business: product development, product, marketing, sales, shipping, receiving, inventory, supply chain, staff, board of advisors, mentors, directors and executives, collaborators vs employees. Legal: incorporating an org or business, securing public-interest status, brand, trademark, OSE License for Distributive Economics. Financial: OSE franchise agreement, setting up banking, payments, registrations, billing, invoicing infrastructures, loans, fundraising channels, OSE stake as a site of permanent human heritage. Business Plan for the OSE Chapter.
   2. Week 2 - Site: facility, securing a facility, securing land. Facility financing. Site staffing and budgets.
   3. Week 3 - Operations: education facility, production facility. Packing, shipping, receiving. OSE Internet infrastructure and access. Operations staffing and budgets.
   4. Week 4 - Marketing and sales. Setting up Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, and website sales. Marketing strategy and cost of customer acquisition: marketing mix of venues and protocols for each. Revenue projections.

Big Picture

• Start enterprises, and start state, regional, or national chapters of OSE
• Sales regions are allocated by state, starting with national, then going to region, state, and possibly city region.
• Involved in the Incentive Challenge - intending to produce the cordless drills and other products
• Combine effort to a generic manufacturing capacity. Advancement track to other products, or can remain at initial product
• Website via wiki templates for the official storefront
• Includes distributed Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, or other marketplace sales as part of marketing strategy
• 12.5% franchise fee
• Annual revenue projections can be in a wide range from $24k-$250k/year per owner/operator not including other staff
• Advancement:
  • Other products
  • STEAM Camps
• Contribution to R&D: franchise fee pays for continuing product development via collaborative infrastructure development, direct OSPD, and other activities
• Benefit of franchise: collaborative product development; certification, marketing services, nonprofit structure and benefits thereof, continued training, collaborative sourcing. The bottom line of the commitment is collaborating on product development, as opposed to competing with others, so that innovation is unleashed. First access to production knowhow/training, while making everything open source.

Goal Narrative

• OSE in interested in developing the distributed franchise as a means to grow the Open Source Economy
• Participants are expected to

Culture

• Supercooperators, courageous to stand for what is right, ethical, GP nice guys, authentic, ambitious. Abundance mindset.

Qualifications

• Endorsement from a local chamber of commerce or enterprise organization
• Securing a business mentor from their respective local area by pitching a Microfactory Business Plan, and a Microfactory Operations Plan. Plan must include a product that the entrepreneur-in-training is interested in developing, along the Critical Path of Open Source Ecology's interest areas of power tools, heavy machines, agriculture, construction, energy, or other key infrastructure areas.
• BA or equivalent level of learning, or entrepreneurial experience

Training

• Goal - We grow people. Starting a collaborative business, not going off on your own. Goal: it's an investment in the people doing the enterprise. It's an investment in joining an enterprise community. It's an investment to be taken on as a full-time job. It's a way to fund OSPD.
  • Collaborative marketing goals - improving Amazon, Etsy, OSES stores.
  • Business plan: 3 month training; revenue projections for 1st month after training - $500-1500 for 1-3 printers sold.
• Information is open source. You pay for the organized learning experience, enterprise cohort, open source product development mastermind, startup package, collaboration training, OSPD training.
• Startup - Amazon store, Etsy store, Kit.com
• Train by participating in a production run
• Workshop setup - parts bins, 3D printed.
• Access to tools - 3D printer, high T chamber, shredder, filament maker. $10k franchise fee, $5k in materials.
  • 18" printer, second one to be built by the student from their own resources
  • Shredder - 1/2" blades, 3D printed geardown, drill drive, hopper. Wood base. 1" bearings.
  • Filament maker, with wood auger bit as a start, wall mounted vertical.
• Each franchisee - produces product, provides customer support, trains staff, provides sales, does local marketing. OSE does global marketing. Both parties participate actively in OSPD.
• Training period - 3 months, including participation in 1 production run. Starting with remote option:
• Month 1:
  • Technology - 2 hrs - understanding the design, design rationale, design evolution, and future developments. Understanding all the part libraries, and understanding how to edit them. Contributes to tech development 50% of the time. Going through 3D Printer Genealogy.
  • Quality Control - detailed quality control procedures on all aspects of build. Exam.
  • Extruder Build - OSE Universal Gearless.
  • CAD - FreeCAD basics. Exam. Feature on a feature workflow, under 1 minute.
  • Build - 1 week to build, disassemble, rebuild.
  • Setup of Amazon Store - 1 hr. Followed by 1-2 hr exercise of setup.
  • Setup of Etsy Store - 1 hr. Followed by 1-2 hr setup of MVP.
  • Setup of OSES store - 1 hr, 1-2 hr setup followup.
  • BOM - 1 hr lesson - followed by 1-2 hr optimization exercise - finding more suppliers and adding them.
• Build of 2nd 3d printer - independent by each person.
• Printer Scalability - 1-2 hr lesson. 14 hr design exercise for the next size up.
• Fabrication Facility Design - cutoff, grinder, others
• Month 2 - Filament maker and extruder
• Month 3 - Development of Cordless Drill / Development of Filamenter

Phases

• Phase 1 - producing 3D printers
• Phase 2 - producing 3D printers, filament makers, CNC Torch Tables, and shredders.
• Phase 3 - Developing the Open Source Everything Store once there are 4+ full time entrepreneurs in operation

Links

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• Chick-fil-A