Open Manufacturing for Value Creation Cycles

Abstract

Regaining components and materials from used products can cope with the challenge of shrinking resource availability with growing global demands for useful physical artifacts. Value creation cycles constituting consecutive multiple phases of usage and remanufacturing enable for increased use productivity of resources. They can be stimulated in entrepreneurial initiatives with global reference by creative approaches of sustainable engineering. Setting up knowledge communities about successful experiences on sustainable open manufacturing creates innovative commons to exploit globally available knowledge in local application. A model of value creation commons instantiated in competitive product and material cycles is presented and illustrated by examples of implementation.