Public Production Engineering

Public Production Engineering refers to techniques for starting manufacturing and production enterprises on a small scale in a distributed and Distributive way. OSE believes that the current centralized production system can transition to Flexible Fabricaction, and even further - to fully distributed production on a small scale using Open Source Microfactories and open source design that is available globally at no cost. Public production engineering, and Distributed Quality Control, are some of the key elements of this transition.

Public production engineering is the design of production engineering and quality control that allows for efficient, high quality production on the small scale of an owner-operator. The Owner-Operator is a small family business from 1 to about a dozen people. The distinction between craft and public production engineering is that the public production engineering enterprise relies on higher technology or automated equipment. However, unlike mass production - the level of technology required is still accessible and low cost by virtue of open source hardware.