[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: [Deep-clock] Fwd: Portable fab

[Stewart Dickson]

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Subject: 	[Deep-clock] Fwd: Portable fab
Date: 	Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:32:38 -0700
From: 	Alexander Rose <zander at longnow.org>
Reply-To: 	zander at longnow.org
Organization: 	The Long Now Foundation
To: 	Design D-List <deep-clock at list.longnow.org>





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Subject: 	Portable fab
Date: 	Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:09:44 -0700
From: 	Stewart Brand
To: 	



>
> Subject: Global Guerrillas RESILIENT COMMUNITY:  Forget Afghanistan, 
> These are
>  Needed in Detroit etc.
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> To: sb at gbn.org
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> Needed in Detroit etc.* 
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> etc. 
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> globalguerrillas.type/1B973EF7 
> <http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451576d69e20133f31cb5c2970b-pi>The 
> US Military Special Operations Command is building eight "mobile 
> factories" that fit into standard shipping containers.  These 
> factories are based on the successful experience the US Army has had 
> with something similar called the MPH 
> <http://www.cleggind.com/specialstructures/mobilepartsmachineshop.htm>.   
> From Strategypage 
> <http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlog/articles/20100814.aspx>:
>
>     /The MPH was developed when the army realized that the easiest way
>     to get the many rarely requested, but vital, replacement parts to
>     the troops, was to manufacture the parts in the combat zone. In
>     short order,* this led to the construction of a portable parts
>     fabrication system, called MPH, that fit into a standard 8x8x20
>     foot shipping container*. The original version used two
>     containers, but smaller equipment and more powerful computers
>     eventually made it possible to use one container./
>
>     / The key to making this work was the availability of computer
>     controlled machine tools, which can take a block of the proper
>     metal, and machine it into the desired part. The computer
>     controlled machine tools have been around for decades, but the big
>     breakthrough was the development of CAD (Computer Assisted Design)
>     software for PCs in the 1980s, which made the process of
>     designing, and then fabricating, a part much faster. The MPH has a
>     high speed satellite data link, which enables it to obtain the CAD
>     file for a part. Many CAD files are already stored in the MPH.
>     Often, the MPH staff figure out a way to improve a part, based on
>     the broken parts they see, and what the troops tell them./
>
>     / In the last six years, MPHs have* manufactured over 100,000
>     parts, on the spot*. This saves days, or weeks, that it would take
>     to order the part from the manufacturer, and the MPH part is
>     usually a lot cheaper (because the air freight and manufacturer
>     mark ups to pay for maintaining the part in inventory).* The next
>     version of the MPH has a 3-D part builder, which uses metal dust
>     and a laser to build a part.*/
>
> Hyperlocal manufacturing is real.  Think of it as one of the economic 
> hearts of a thriving resilient community.  It's a revolution already 
> in motion, as you can see in the rapid spread of hackerspaces 
> <http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/08/journal-forget-silicon-valley-and-wall-street.html>. 
>  Connect these hackerspaces, and the communities they serve, with 
> networks 
> <http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/09/resilient-com-1.html> 
> that allow people to share, buy/sell, modify, customize, etc. designs 
> for products/parts, and we are on our a way to a resilient 
> decentralized economy 
> <http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/01/darknet-economies.html> that 
> can survive the economic dislocation to come.
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