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Microfactory and Chapters Replication

OSE is offering programs that help people start productive enterprises that collaborate with OSE. We are developing 1-3 month programs, as well as full replication apprenticeships which include the 3 months, followed by 3 further months of apprenticeship as needed.


3 Month Intensive Course

There are 3 main months in the enterprise training: (1) technology; (2) product development; (3) enterprise operations and marketing; (4) the OSE Chapter and facility. These months build upon each other.

  1. Month 1 - Technology - This is the nuts and bolts: how do you build the highest performance, lowest cost, lifetime design 3D printers, plastic recycling infrastructure (shredders and filament makers), CNC torch tables? Collaborative design training. The 4th week of Month 1 is a design exercise where we work on collaborative design of a new product or module to develop collaborative design skills, while soliciting feedback from subject matter experts.
  2. Month 2 - Enerprise - Learning about collaborative and open source product design to start a hardware enterprise. This is about the product side: how to use the Microfactory and global collaboration to produce viable products.
    1. Week 1: The economics and ergonomics of production. Capacity: understanding the things that can be built with the Microfactory. Production rates. CAM files generation. Basic economic output levels. Applying Extreme Manufacturing to common products. Hands-on exercises: data collection on production rates.
    2. Week 2: Development Template: inside out of an open source product development. Supply chain. Translating OSE Specifications into Requirements. Product Ecologies. Module-Based Design. Construction Set Approach. Rapid Prototyping. Testing and Data Collection. Hands-on exercise: starting a Development Template for a new product.
    3. Week 3: Hydraulics, mechanics, structures (back of envelope to FEM), CNC, electronics, thermal, agriculture, energy, Waste System Design Guide, housing, precision motion design guides: how to design any critical infrastructure.
    4. Week 4: Design exercise: taking what we learned about design and the design process to design and prototype an improvement on the filament maker.
  3. Month 3 - Organization. How do you start an OSE Chapter that is part of a global movement to shift the economy from proprietary to collaborative? If you want to start a microfactory or land-based facility - we teach you how. This is for people who are serious about creating the open source economy.
    1. Week 1 - The elements of a business: product development, product, marketing, sales, shipping, receiving, inventory, supply chain, staff, board of advisors, mentors, directors and executives, collaborators vs employees. Legal: incorporating an org or business, securing public-interest status, brand, trademark, OSE License for Distributive Economics. Financial: OSE franchise agreement, setting up banking, payments, registrations, billing, invoicing infrastructures, loans, fundraising channels, OSE stake as a site of permanent human heritage. Business Plan for the OSE Chapter.
    2. Week 2 - Site: facility, securing a facility, securing land. Facility financing. Site staffing and budgets.
    3. Week 3 - Operations: education facility, production facility. Packing, shipping, receiving. OSE Internet infrastructure and access. Operations staffing and budgets.
    4. Week 4 - Marketing and sales. Setting up Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, and website sales. Marketing strategy and cost of customer acquisition: marketing mix of venues and protocols for each. Revenue projections.

Big Picture

  • Start enterprises, and start state, regional, or national chapters of OSE
  • Sales regions are allocated by state, starting with national, then going to region, state, and possibly city region.
  • Involved in the Incentive Challenge - intending to produce the cordless drills and other products
  • Combine effort to a generic manufacturing capacity. Advancement track to other products, or can remain at initial product
  • Website via wiki templates for the official storefront
  • Includes distributed Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, or other marketplace sales as part of marketing strategy
  • 12.5% franchise fee
  • Annual revenue projections can be in a wide range from $24k-$250k/year per owner/operator not including other staff
  • Advancement:
    • Other products
    • STEAM Camps
  • Contribution to R&D: franchise fee pays for continuing product development via collaborative infrastructure development, direct OSPD, and other activities
  • Benefit of franchise: collaborative product development; certification, marketing services, nonprofit structure and benefits thereof, continued training, collaborative sourcing. The bottom line of the commitment is collaborating on product development, as opposed to competing with others, so that innovation is unleashed. First access to production knowhow/training, while making everything open source.

Goal Narrative

  • OSE in interested in developing the distributed franchise as a means to grow the Open Source Economy

Culture

  • Supercooperators, courageous to stand for what is right, ethical, GP nice guys, authentic, ambitious. Abundance mindset.

Qualifications

  • Endorsement from a local chamber of commerce or enterprise organization
  • Securing a business mentor from their respective local area by pitching a Microfactory Business Plan, and a Microfactory Operations Plan. Plan must include a product that the entrepreneur-in-training is interested in developing, along the Critical Path of Open Source Ecology's interest areas of power tools, heavy machines, agriculture, construction, energy, or other key infrastructure areas.
  • BA or equivalent level of learning, or entrepreneurial experience

Training

old notes on training to be refactored

FAQ

  1. What are OSE Chapters? Chapters are independently-run operations that work closely with OSE on the critical path toward the Open Source Economy. These can be as simple as garage-based microfactories, and as ambitious as 30 acre land-based facilities.
  2. How do I start the process of applying for an OSE chapter?Submit an application to OSE by contacting info at opensourceecology dot org. We suggest that you participate in one of OSE's programs and meet some of its people first to understand OSE's programs more in depth. If you take our 1 month training, no prior experience with OSE is required. If you would like to do our full program, more extensive vetting is required.
  3. How much does it cost? TBD. Cost includes training plus equipment. While it's easiest for the chapter to be self-funded, We work with applicants to secure support from their local business community - in the location where the OSE chapter will be located. We don't view the cost as a block - if you are a qualified applicant - apply and we'll find the resources collaboratively.
  4. Do I have to go all in?You can do 1, 2, or 3 months - or the full program.
  5. Is training provided to prospective applicants? How long is it? We require all applicants for the full program to complete our 3 month training program - of which 4 weeks must be on site at the OSE headquarters in the Kansas City area.
  6. Is this opportunity available everywhere in the world?Yes.
  7. I would like to start a microfactory with a partner. How do I do that?Your partner would need to register for our training separately.
  8. How much does a Chapter make per year?Profitability depends on many factors, including operating costs, and most important, your ability to operate the business effectively. OSE provides some support for marketing, and full support for future product development.
  9. Is OSE seeking women and minority Owner/Operators?OSE is committed to increasing diversity in its owner/operators.
  10. What are the duties of a Chapter? Each Chapter pays an annual franchise fee of 12.5%, participates in an annual conference, and collaborates on OSE's incentive challenges.

Phases

  • Phase 1 - producing 3D printers
  • Phase 2 - producing 3D printers, filament makers, CNC Torch Tables, and shredders.
  • Phase 3 - Developing the Open Source Everything Store once there are 4+ full time entrepreneurs in operation

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