Atoms represent traditional manufacturing, and bits represent the Internet .
A few years ago, for the general public, manufacturing seemed to be far away. If you want to design something by yourself, and then manufacture it in small batches, it seems to be a more difficult thing. Where to find a suitable manufacturer, manufacture Whether the manufacturer's production process can produce your product, whether the manufacturer is willing to adjust the manufacturing schedule for small batches of products...
When the mutual development of the atomic economy and the bit economy is finally intertwined, many new models are derived.
The development of digital product design allows you to design your products on a computer; the emergence of 3D printing technology allows you to produce samples of your products by yourself; the emergence of Alibaba has opened the door of Chinese manufacturing to the world, even if If you are in a foreign country, you can also find the low-cost, high-efficiency and large-scale production capacity you need through Alibaba.
The emergence of the quirky website can already connect creators, creative improvers, product designers, sample producers, small batch manufacturers, large-scale manufacturing enterprises, warehouse logistics service providers, sales terminals, etc., maybe you All you need is a creative idea + a few sketches, put it on the website, and soon there will be corresponding products available in supermarkets such as Walmart.
Kickstarter, a crowdfunding site, solves customer, market research and funding problems for entrepreneurs through the Internet.
The value of design is increasing, while the benefits of mass production are relatively small, such as iPhones, products made in California, made in China, most of the value remains in the United States.
mfg, on the other hand, provides a C2B model that allows manufacturers to participate in bidding by posting the customer's design drawings to the website. Of course, this is different from the C2B pre-sale on Tmall.
Arduino, a new open source computing platform that lets you program and control hardware.
Tools such as CAD design software, 3D printers, laser cutting machines, CNC machine tools, and 3D scanners are the software and equipment available in general maker workshops. The initial samples of the emerging payment company Square were hand-made by the founders in the creative workshop with these devices, and when the demand scaled up, they were mass-produced with the assembly line of the manufacturing company.
In the author's eyes, China, a major manufacturing country, is nothing more than a low-value mass-manufacturing role, and creativity, a high-value thing, is more likely to remain in the United States.
The maker movement makes it easier to create ideas, which may set off a new technological revolution.
The impact of Internet technology on the manufacturing industry will lead to more business process reorganization and optimization; and the evolution and disruptive innovation of the business process itself at each stage will also promote the further optimization of the process.