■ Key Topic: Production 2.0 / Smart Fabrication°
°Introduction to Smart Manufacturing (Smart Fabrication)
In order to develop winning business it is necessary to understand the substance of the Innovation in progress (it is therefore necessary to understand why…
“New Production/Distribution methods: Franchising-Transplant Factories”≈
We will return to a dimension that recovers many aspects of manufacturing: there will be innovative formulas such as Franchising-Transplant Factories.
Guidelines [3]: Table for Assessing Disruptive Innovation
Disruptive Innovation require new Disruptive Criteria. A Table of Keypoints aimed at a diagnostic assessments of Business innovation capacity.
Industry 4.0: the Smart manufacturing (& SmartFAB)
The new phase of the Market will be characterized by a new production mode that “Revolutionizes” the current methods: Smart Manufacturing. The current conception of…
Decalogue of Rules of Real (Disruptive) innovation
In the first place it is necessary to clarify the meaning of the term innovation [ see ‘Manifesto of Innovation (1): the basic principles of sustainable…
°Beyond the Value chain: the Open Value Web
When talking about disruptive innovation it is very important to pay attention to the concepts that are used, because they can actually affect the success…
*Towards a radically new model of Industry 4.0: introduction to a Smart Fabrication plan (FabLab 2.0)
The Fab Labs are part of the Market that is now at sunset (a failed Model). But from some qualities of Fab Labs new Business Models can be born (and new ways of Production/Distribution).
The Production of the future is not an improvement of the current ones
It is not a question of developing Better Processes in tomorrow’s Factories, as the market is making a disruptive change: a revolution in the business…
∙Innovation is intrinsically (historically) bottom-up
Innovation is a modern concept to define the flow of inventions that have so far determined the so-called Progress of Humanity. And innovation has always…
The new dimension of work
The introduction of new tools (based, on ICT, IoT, …), and the development of new ways of social interaction and new modes of work and consumption, is inducing a virtuous circle of evolution in the Society.
°The misunderstanding on Industry 4.0: towards Manufacturing 4.0
The “revolution” (dirsruption) that is transforming the world of production is a phenomenon radically different from the one today defined as Industry 4.0.
The change concerns not only the product, but everything connected to it. Today it is necessary: a rethinking ● the why of a product ● the ideation/design process ● the production/distribution process. We move on to a new era of the new Economy: the Context economy.
