A fun dive into Manufacture

Eric Pan & Kevin ZhangSep 2014, Open Hardware Summit

@seeedstudio

Eric Pan

maker, biker

Founder & CEO

ep@seeed.cc

Diving by sport in touch UK, from Pinterest

Welcome, To the other world!

Scuba Diving

ManufacturingInto a different world

Be Cautious

Time

Respect

Check your Gear

Efficiency

Balance

CalmTeamwork

Design – Pitch – Manufacture – Deliver

DESIGN15 min

PITCH2 min

MANUFACTURE20 min

DELIVER5 min

Let’s redefine hat

Cost = How many basic material per hat

Volume = How many hats manufactured

Consistency = Same among the batch

Promise = Final Deliver matches Pitch

Votes = Peer to Peer vote for favourite

Team

Score = x

x

x

x

Basic Components

20 pcs cloth, 1*Adhesive tape,

Shared components

Anything you can find(legally)

Equipment

1*Scissors, 1*Stapler, 2*Colors pens,

DESIGN15 min

Objectives:Design and make the 1st hat

Optional:Define Roles

Outstanding

Choose materials wisely

Think how to make more later

Find a popular lighthouse user

Prepare to Pitch

PITCH2 min

Objectives:Sell your design to backers

Optional:AWESOME!

MANUFACTURE20 min

Objectives:Manufacture more hats!

Optional:Collect enough material

Prepare a operation procedure

Optimize the process

Apply Quality Control

Objectives:Show us the results!

Optional:A moving story

Improvement (downgrade) applied

Share your hints

DELIVER5 min

Better done than perfect.

Home is behind,

and someone is missing.

0 0.1 1 100 1,000 10K 1KKFun Dive

Crowd Funding

Ramp Up

Indie Products

Manufacture Triangle

Lead time

Components, Process

example: Espruino

20 days

from PO to Shipping 4k pcs

(Normal Priority)

100 popular components consists ~30% of BOMs

Sharing the library = Sharing the Supply Chain

Cost, Lead time, Quality, and Knowledges

Open Parts Library seeed.cc/OPL

octopart.com/cplLouder and broader

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Manufacture As A Service

Good Luck!