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

Fabbed.com的目标是建立一个数字化制造产品的全球在线市场，最初专注于家具和家具。我们打算改变消费者的选择，并提供一个可行的替代品，以大规模生产的产品，主导市场的今天。我们的愿景是让消费者获得数百个高品质的设计，由世界各地的天才设计师为任何产品类别。此外，消费者可以通过选择材料、表面处理和functionality.Fabbed.com利用新一代计算机控制的制造技术，包括3D打印和激光切割来定制这些物品。这些新技术正在通过将劳动力占制造成本的比例降低到更小的比例来改变制造业的经济状况。另一个颠覆性的方面是，这些产品是由一个使用这种新的数字制造技术的中小企业“制造商”网络在当地制造的（从而降低了运输成本）。为了使Fabbed.com可扩展，我们需要建立一个创新的技术平台协议和商业流程，弥合设计师使用的软件和制造设备之间的鸿沟。Fabbed Limited的团队在数字制造方面拥有丰富的经验。他们建立了两个网站，这两个网站有助于为数字制造产品提供信息和发展全球市场的概念。Fabhub.io：这个目录网站帮助我们建立了位于Fabbed市场核心的FabricatorNetwork的可行性。OpenDesk.cc：这个网站是Fabbed.com市场的概念证明，证明了在线销售数字化制造的设计师木制家具的需求和商业可行性，并通过分布式制造商网络按需制造家具。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。

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.