Manufacturing

In a world of New Sharing Villages (MSVs) traditional ideas learned and practiced in the Fabrication or Manufacture of items must be abandoned. A Sharing community is a money-less community, a non-monetary community and therefore has very different priorities than most of us are used to. Here is a typical List of concerns in NSV Priority Order:


 * 1) The end item or product being made must be of the Highest Quality, the Best product possible. Certainly not the fastest to produce, nor the one that would have the most 'sales', for example.
 * 2) The item or product must be very Durable, long lasting, and be easily Repaired when it eventually Fails.
 * 3) Where ever and whenever  possible standard 'off-the-shelf' modules or components must be used to make the item or product.
 * 4) The Raw Materials used must be continually minimized is quantity, using the least-distance algorithm for sourcing, and include reprocessed or recycled material whenever possible.
 * 5) Finally, time to make or produce (Labour hours) is considered, but only after the above four items are examined and processed.

So, as you can see from the above, considerations of increasing the number of 'widgets' per hour or design ideas involving 'planned obsolescence', for example, do not make the list.

''' Please keep these ideas in mind if you are working on Planning or Design areas for NSVs. '''

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