OSE Specifications for Product Design

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To assess the technological design features of OSE Specifications, these are the most important:

  1. Lifetime Design. Achieved largely by bolt-together, Space Frame construction.
  2. Design for Scalability. Intensive and Extensive Scalability.
  3. Modular Design. Hydralics and bolt-together space frames facilitate this. Modularity can occur on the component level as well, with the Stock Tubing and Stock Pivot Plates]]
  4. Design for Fabrication. Design for minimal fabrication steps. Design for common parts.
  5. Simplicity. Minimal parts count. Maximum redundancy of part types.
  6. Low cost. Off-shelf parts. Minimum machining.
  7. Meeting or exceeding industry standards. Overbuild with Space Frames.
  8. Machine fit as part of a greater product ecology - on the component level, module level, and
  9. Designed as a Product Ecology - at the component, module, and machine level.


The development process itself follows:

  1. Test-Driven Design
  2. Modular Design
  3. Interface Design (Contract-First Manufacturing)