Extreme Manufacturing Workshops

Intro

XM Workshops are one day or weekend extreme builds of machines, heavy machines, or 5 day builds of houses - based on Extreme Manufacturing techniques. OSE is pioneering 1 day builds of heavy machines. We believe that popular engagement in production activity will rise in the future as part of the Experience Economy. People have a deep hunger for being essentially productive - and the experience of production is a deep way to satisfy that need. Plus, automation and new techniques are continuously lowering the barriers to such activity. We believe that the future of manufacturing is distributed production in open source, local microfactories.

Revenue Model

To scale such events, we need to make them replicable and self-sustaining. We have demonstrated an Extreme Build revenue model, where participants sign up for the workshop, and a client pays for the product. The details of this arrangement vary upon the product. Currently, we are developing an immersion training program where we teach and certify OSE Fellows to run such workshops in different parts of the world.

Replication

We are promoting widespread replication of this business model by facilitating replication of Extreme Manufacturing builds. For this, we are streamlining all the processes involved, such that it takes one day to prepare a workshop, a day to market it, and another day to run it. See 2 Day XM Workshop Execution.

Links

• Extreme Manufacturing
• See our main website for offerings - http://opensourceecology.org/workshops-and-programs/