Print Cluster Specification

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Concept

A 3D printing cluster can be a lucrative, automated business opportunity to provide a Guaranteed Basic Income. The printing service is:

  1. Fully automated
  2. Web interface allows for print ordering, from a selection of proven offerings.
  3. People don't print their own designs - but they can rent print time by the hour from our cluster.
  4. Cluster operates on our own 3D printing filament (recycled, and 100% PV powered). Marketed as the world's first eco-3D-Printing service - which cleans up the environment by recycling plastic, and uses 100% solar energy.
  5. Harvesting robot harvests prints automatically
  6. Packaging robots packages things automatically.
  7. Carefully curated 3D print offering provides high quality parts.

Robotic Harvesting

Routes:

  • Concept 1: OSE printer is modified so that the gantry is a bump-head to knock part off the platform automatically. Part drops into a container, ready for shipping. A grid of 12x12 3d printers with shipping baskets underneath. Shipping baskets move automatically, and a printed label is added.
  • Concept 2: object recognition robot picks up parts. Parts are designed for robotic handling. Robot puts objects in the correct boxes. Robot knows which products go where.

Robotic Packaging

  • prints are placed inside universal size baskets, and closed off.
  • Label is placed automatically on the package.
  • Boxes are lined up, ready to be taken to the post office
  • Mailman picks up packages daily - so no trip to the post office needs to be taken.

Construction Set Approach

  • Packaging and labeling is part of a universal system relevant to any product - such as machined parts, electronics, etc.

Research

What are other common 3D printing services, and what features do they have? Which features are desirable for OSE to meet OSE Specifications?