04 /Industrial library / vision
Products are
becoming files.
Before an object exists, it can exist as instructions.
Object → information
The product is more than the part.
Modern product development begins as digital manufacturing intelligence: a set of dimensions, tolerances, materials, processes and instructions that can travel further than any one factory.
+CAD models
+Dimensions
+Tolerances
+Materials
+Bills of materials
+Test results
+Supplier options
+Revision histories
Object study / component 001The long-term ambition
The SoCu Industrial Library.
Every validated product creates more than an object. It creates reusable manufacturing knowledge. Over time, we aim to develop a growing library of validated designs, specifications, materials, production methods and suppliers relevant to African operating environments.
Inventory tells you what you have.
Industrial knowledge tells you what you can make.
Industrial knowledge tells you what you can make.
A developing ambition — not a public product catalogue
A better way to make it