OPEN! Methods and tools for community-based product development

信息通信技术和3d打印机等廉价的小尺寸生产工具的普及导致了开放设计的发展，即基于社区和开源的物理产品开发。这种基于新版权概念以及分散和自愿工作的创新产品开发组织为传统工业产品开发提供了一种颠覆性的选择。这为产品的持续改进提供了巨大的机会，也为产品创新和新业务孵化提供了巨大的潜力。然而，开放式设计的出现仍然受到支持方法和在线工具的有限可用性的影响，这些方法和工具有助于面对由非合同参与的志愿者的分布式协作所带来的组织挑战。由于缺乏适应的结构机制，开放设计项目仍然局限于开发低复杂性和低质量的产品，例如为自己动手的爱好者提供原型或玩具。为了与今天的工业产品设计标准竞争，开放式设计应提供适应的方法，以确保显著的过程效率和经济可行性。该项目的目标是开发一个在线开放设计平台，为社区提供创新的方法和工具，使他们能够在开源产品的设计和持续改进方面进行协作。项目的范围包括：1)开放设计范式的特征，因为它实际上出现了；2)开发一套方法的组织开放设计项目，基于现有的方法在工业中使用的适应性；3)实现这些方法的在线平台的原型。沿着这些任务解决的科学挑战是：-定义一个开源产品开发过程，确保开源产品开发项目的融合，并允许设计高质量和复杂的产品。-定义适合的辅助信息系统，为设计团体提供在线协作、产品数据管理和开发过程管理的工具。-定义商业模式的指导方针，帮助企业家减少与基于开源的商业模式开发相关的风险。该项目将在36个月内由一个包括法国和德国研究实验室和公司的多学科联盟进行。它将由法国和德国的工业工程实验室（G-SCOP [Fr], TU Berlin/IWF [De]）领导，并将涉及商业经济学（HU Berlin/HIIG [De]）和创新管理科学（CERAG [Fr]）的贡献。解决方案将在Raidlight公司[Fr]和在线社区的合作下开发和测试，感谢我们的外部合作伙伴。

The spread of ICT and cheap low-size production tools like 3D-printers led to the development of open design, i.e. community-based and open source development of physical products. This innovative organization of product development based on a new conception of copyright as well as decentralized and voluntary work offers a disruptive alternative to conventional industrial product development. It provides a great opportunity for continuous improvement of products as well as formidable potentials for product innovation and incubation of new businesses. However, the emergence of open design still suffers from a limited availability of supporting methods and online tools helping to face the organizational challenges raised by distributed collaboration of non-contractually engaged volunteers. Because of a lack of adapted structuration mechanisms, open design projects are still restricted to the development of products of low complexity and quality, i.e. prototypes or toys for do-it-yourself hobbyists. In order to compete with today's standards of industrial product design, open design shall be provided with adapted methods that ensures significant process efficiency and economic viability. The objective of this project is to develop an online Open Design Platform providing communities with innovative methods and tools allowing them to collaborate on the design and continuous improvement of open source products. The scope of the project covers 1) the characterization of the open design paradigm as it emerges actually 2) the development a set of methods for the organization of open design projects based on the adaptation of existing methods used in industry 3) the prototyping of an online platform implementing these methods. Scientific challenges addressed along these tasks are to:- Define an open source product development process ensuring the convergence of open source product development projects and allowing designing high quality and complex products.- Define adapted supporting information systems providing design communities with tools for online collaboration, product data management and management of the development process.- Define guidelines for business models helping entrepreneurs reducing risks associated with the development of business models based on open source.The project will be performed in 36 months by a multidisciplinary consortium involving French and German research laboratories and companies. It will be led by French and German laboratories on industrial engineering (G-SCOP [Fr], TU Berlin/IWF [De]) and will involve contributions from business economics (HU Berlin/HIIG [De]) and innovation management sciences (CERAG [Fr]). Solutions will be developed and tested in collaboration the company Raidlight [Fr] and online communities thanks to our external partners.