RCCS I
The RCCS commonly spoken about with respect to the 40 or so basic technologies for the creation of replicable, resilient communities marks the entry level economy for post scarcity. It is herein we distinguish it as RCCS I.
This set includes tools for resilience on basic agriculture, energy, housing, transportation, and technology needs. It goes as far as taking scrap metal and reworking it to virgin steel. This goes up to a basic induction furnace with hot processing of metal, followed by CNC machining, to make electromechanical equipment at the cost of scrap steel. This allows one to make engines and hydraulic motors/pumps, and to produce solar-concentrator energy. It included CNC machining to produce just about everything, along with power electronics to produce items such as welders.
RCCS I is marked, in general, by the capacity to build just about anything, but having to import most of the components, outside of steel. This means digital design becomes available for the RCCS itself, but not for the myriad of products that the RCCS can produce - outside of hydraulic pumps/motor and
There are, however, much deeper levels of local production, where further import substitution occurs for the material items used in resilient communities. Thus - we distinguish RCCS II - full fabrication automation and production of all components, but still starting from scrap steel resources. This included the building of all components - precision machining drives, stepper motors, surface grinding, full automated metallurgical processing to produce all metal feedstock for an advanced economy. Combined with power electronics, we hereby make all components from scrap steel, but rubber and other synthetic materials must still be imported.
RCCS II involves, in general, the import substitution of many electromechanical components.
RCCS III involves the full import substitution on raw feedstocks - via the ability to smelt minerals and to carry on materials science processes to produce electronic feedstocks and components, rubber, and any other products.