Fabbed.com prototype: designer consumer products made digitally, through distributed manufacturing

Fabbed.com 原型：通过分布式制造以数字方式制造的设计师消费产品

• 批准号: 720447
• 金额: $ 31.68万
• 依托单位: FABBED LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720447
• 关键词: Fabbed.com; prototype; designer; consumer; products

Fabbed.com aims to build a global online marketplace for digitally fabricated products,initially focused on furniture and furnishings. We intend to transform the choice available toconsumers and provide a viable alternative to mass produced products that dominate themarket today. Our vision is to give the consumer access to hundreds of high quality designsby talented designers worldwide for any product category. Moreover, consumers cancustomise any of these items by choosing materials, finishes and functionality.Fabbed.com leverages a new generation of computer controlled manufacturing technologies,which includes 3D printing and laser cutting. Such new technologies are transforming theeconomics of manufacturing by reducing labour to a smaller percentage of the cost ofmanufacture. Another disruptive aspect is that the products are manufactured locally (therebyreducing transport cost) to the consumer by a network of SME ‘makers’ using this new digitalfabrication technology.To make Fabbed.com scalable we need to build an innovative technical platform protocol andcommercial process that bridges the divide between the software used by designers and themanufacturing equipment/data required by the makers to produce them.The team at Fabbed Limited have extensive prior experience in digital fabrication. They builttwo websites that have helped to inform and evolve the concept of a global marketplace fordigitally fabricated products.- Fabhub.io: This directory website helped us to establish the viability of the fabricatornetwork that lies at the heart of the Fabbed marketplace.- OpenDesk.cc: This site is a proof of concept for the Fabbed.com marketplace and provesdemand and commercial viability of selling digitally made, designer wooden furniture onlineand manufacturing them on demand via a distributed maker network.The Fabbed.com marketplace will ultimately address a wide range of product categories madefrom many different materials.

Fabbed.com的目标是建立一个全球数字制造产品的在线市场，最初专注于家具和家具。我们打算改变消费者的选择，并为主导当今市场的大规模生产产品提供一个可行的替代方案。我们的愿景是让消费者能够接触到数百种高质量的设计，这些设计是由世界各地才华横溢的设计师为任何产品类别设计的。此外，消费者还可以通过选择材料、饰面和功能来取消这些产品的定制。Fabbed.com利用了新一代计算机控制的制造技术，其中包括3D打印和激光切割。这些新技术通过将劳动力减少到制造成本的较小比例，正在改变制造业的经济学。另一个颠覆性的方面是，产品是通过使用这种新的数字制造技术的中小企业制造商网络在本地制造给消费者的(从而降低了运输成本)。为了使Fabbed.com具有可扩展性，我们需要建立一个创新的技术平台协议和商业流程，以弥合设计师使用的软件和制造商生产这些产品所需的制造设备/数据之间的鸿沟。他们建立了两个网站，帮助宣传和发展了数字制造产品的全球市场的概念。-FabHub.io：这个目录网站帮助我们建立了位于Fabed市场核心的制造者网络的生存能力。-OpenDesk.cc：这个网站是Fabbed.com市场的概念验证，证明了在线销售数字制造的设计师木制家具并通过分布式制造商网络按需制造的需求和商业可行性。Fabbed.com市场最终将解决由许多不同材料制成的广泛产品类别。