OSE Design for Fabrication

In order to achieve Distributed Market Substitution of major industries on a 10 year or under time-scale, OSE designs for fabrication in a way that optimizes repliability using both COTS and non-standard components.

In practice, this means:

1. Steel is favored on grounds of cost and strength over aluminum unless light weight is of greater importance
2. ZA Alloy is the material of choice for light-machinable parts
3. Any design considers COTS part availability during the design phase, so that ready parts are used whenever possible to avoid custom machining. If it can be done with a COTS part, do it to favor access over point-performance at higher cost.
4. Design with careful consideration and understanding of the production tools, to optimize fabrication capacity to the design at the design stage.
5. Design with open source parametric software so modifications can be made readily