Open Sector Workshop

Building on Flexible Fabrication, Digital Fabrication, Industrial Productivity on a Small Scale, Distributive Enteprise, Open Sector, Open Design, Basic Workshop, Lifetime Design, and other experimentation - we propose the Open Sector Workshop.

This is a commercially viable facility that can produce about 90% of consumer durables and other products necessary for a modern standard of living. Basic infrastructure involved includes:

• Basic Workshop - $5k
• Basic Advanced Workshop - $15k open source. CNC precision machining is involved.
• Ball Bearing and Bearing Manufacturing
• Induction Furnace - 200kW - to produce 5000 lb of virgin steel and aluminum per day. Can consider a zone refining- style vertical furnace where only a zone is activated.
• Plastic Recycling and 3D Printing
• Basic Electronics Shop - 3D printed and socketed designs for recyclable electronics, which can be potted for permanence. Heat dissipation fans and other structures included.
• Materials Production Facility - lumber, CEBs, rubber (thermoplastic elastomers), aluminum, rebar (structures), glass, plastic composites, thermoplastic materials of all types..

Proof of Concept

• Start with Large Workshop Structure with Roofless Roof and PV. Must thus include thermoplastic printing to deliver roofless roof geometry.
• Includes 50kW induction furnace for and 50kW VAWT windmill.
• Includes Multimachine-style concrete block with spindle and linear travel axis and 2 opposed chucks, either of which can be driven.
• Industrial grade shredder for plastic, aluminum, rock, and steel. 8' long and 26 hp. Doublesided drive.
• Basic electronics capacity - 3D printed in the style of Universal Power Module, aluminum heatsinks, sockets, 3D printed terminal blocks of complex geometry.

Key to Success

Sufficient recursion must be available to make parts in house starting from waste plastic,