Cyber factorys and the products they produce must go hand by hand, but not in a sense of superficial thinking as a “full intelligent” or sophisticated marriage.
The vintage 50’s – 60’s time mirroed in products its own values, many of them rooted in the assumed by-present danger of the cold-war mutual anhilation:
- Simple & reliable
- Elegance and good-taste
- Durable
- Priced made
- Delight eagerness with
Each product, whatever it was all about, deserved the expectation and a deep born desire of posession.
Today, the trivialization of consumption, the almost always excesive futile ICT product automation, and the culture of low-price use and trash items, has built a pleïad of stupid products candidates to recycling as fast as possible.
Factory-Intelligent Automation with practical human-rolled related limits, is another thing, and as the opposite we must evolve to use it as a vehicle to deliver more vintage-rooted products at an accesible price. And so, beginning to change customer culture.
So, guidelines for product development conception:
- Innovative for vintage tangible values
- A limit to incorporated software, if sense on
- Practical, simple, and comprehensive
- Durable, no-cheap
- Pure and transparent features (in food, e.g)
And the industrial practices evolve as follows, from the present “Design for manufacturing” (DFMA) to:
- Concept development from the classical “product-engineering”, details from evolved “process-engineering” = Automation Engineering + Quality Engineering + Maintenance Engineering FUSSION!!”
Feedback of Conceptualized details by “product-engineering” again.
- All it focus to “Design for Intelligent Automation” and “Design for product reliability” as high repeatable standards.
- Design cycle backgrounded on flow-increasing value along product development “virtual cells”.
From capital equipment goods, to durable consumer goods, to pharmaceuticals or food an opportunity for change dawns.
