Distributed Market Substitution Criteria
How do we select good candidate products that can be great examples of open source product development succeeding in the marketplace as scalable industry transformers?
- Significant market size, min $1B globally. Cordless drills are about $10B.
- Manufacturing leverages easily accessible, open source automation technologies such as 3D printing, circuit milling, laser cutting.
- Product is suitable for a family run business, without requiring major investment in infrastructure. Cordless drill can be produced in a garage.
- Product meets a significant market need or gap. Lifetime design is a big one for checking fdless drills.
- Low start-up costs. Under $1k for drill.
- Lends itself to digital fabrication assist. Drill: complex body geometry, battery pack can be 3D printed. Motor and geardown may be printed.
- Has clear path for manufacturing improvements and addition of other production innovation on a small scale.
- Extremely efficient Production levels must be achieved on a small scale. Drill: guess is 12 can be built in a single 8 hour day if all parts are available.
- Lifetime design
- Made from local and recycled materials.
- Modular - so functional improvements are possible and manufacturing lends itself to optimization at low cost
- Product is a common, everyday tool that everyone can appreciate
- Product is. It overly complex that it is impossible to build on a small scale
- Product is a combination of mechanical, electrical, and control systems.
- Product lends itself to IoT and apps for smarter control and reporting.
- Product leverages available open source code.pone ts and fabrication scheme, and serves as a foundation for opensourcing further manufacturing processes to obtain a higher percentage of open source components
- Product must be nontrivial, so that open sou ce innovation in its delivery constitutes a significant and unique value proposition. I, it is co.plex enough that the Incentive Challenge requires collaboration, and cannot be done by a single person. This would indicate that a significant development effort is taking place.
- There must be a large audience with the interest - and the required skills - to participate in the challenge
- The challenge must be fungible - it must inspire a lot of people and have wide public appaeal so that the necessary support can be obtained to fund the callenge
