3D Printer Product Strategy
Basic Product Overview
For any OSE engagement, we filter through the OSE Vision: Collaborative Design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Translated for the 3D printer:
- Abundance - This implies a Construction Set Approach for the 3D printer - which provides much more value than a Dedicated Product Approach. Thus, at the basic level, we design 6 frame sizes at the same time: 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, and 24" frames.
- In the more advanced level, we also use the 8" frame for a precise printer with 4" bed
- Inclusive - Using the above abundance principle, we achieve inclusion of nature: zero waste in the materials used when starting from a 4x8' sheet of steel with 6 nested frames. The smallest cutouts can serve as heated beds for printers.
Overall Product Line
Overall, OSE features the full Scalability of sizes, based on one of the key properties of OSE Specifications. The full product line that will be offered by OSE is:
Education Series
- D3D Simple - a simplified 3 axis system for educational use that can bootstrap to any of the larger or more advanced machines
Pro Series
This line is intended for professional use
- D3D Micro - super precise prints, 4" bed size
- D3D Mini - like Lulzbot Mini, 6" bed size
- D3D Eco - the standard version with 8" print bed and insulated heat bed
- D3D Mega - 12" bed size and up
- D3D Giga - 36" bed size and up
- D3D Terra - 48" bed size and up, for producing construction materials
Industrial Series
Higher performance machines for industrial production. The Extreme Temperature (XT) line features a heated build chamber that goes up to 178C in the standard version, or higher for higher temperature printing. The industrial series ncludes toolheads for Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing, clay 3d printing, and cement 3D printing.
Terra is a play-on-words on tera-, emphasizing the ecologogical aspects of our production ecosystem: plastics recycling infrastructure, high level of modularity which enables lifetime design, and a support community for glocal open source product development featuring OSE's Incentive Challenge methodology.