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Circular, sustainable and collaborative for the production of tomorrow.

The concept of value creation forms the central conceptual foundation of our interdisciplinary research work. Based on the increasing transformation of industrial, digital and social framework conditions, we have been dedicating ourselves to the theoretical analysis and practice-oriented investigation of value creation systems since 2010. In the context of scientific publications, project-based research and transdisciplinary collaborations, we analyze the fundamental changes and future prospects of value creation. This work is carried out under the umbrella of the New Production Institute, an interdisciplinary platform that integrates different theoretical and methodological approaches to researching current and future forms of value creation. The contributions collected in the volume “Future of Value Creation” (Redlich and Moritz, 2018) reflect this interdisciplinary approach and open up diverse perspectives on the redesign of production and value creation processes in the context of technical, economic and social upheavals.

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Fab City as a model for the circular economy

Intro

Globally connected, locally & sustainably produced

The book “Global Collaboration, Local Production” (Moritz et al., 2024) takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining how locally anchored, digitally networked forms of production – such as fab cities, open microfactories and DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) – can contribute to the sustainable transformation of value creation systems. The focus is on open, participatory and circular approaches that combine global cooperation with local implementation.

  1. Fab City approach: cities are becoming local production sites that are globally networked and minimize material cycles.
  2. Open microfactories enable flexible, local production and contribute to the local circular economy through open formats.
  3. Maker spaces and open source approaches promote innovation and social participation in local communities.
  4. DAOs as a form of governance can support participatory management of transformation processes.
Publication list

Interdisciplinary research results

 

Autor (Publikationsjahr)Titel
Buxbaum-Conradi et al. (2025)Fab City Hamburg Playbook – Erkenntnisse aus dem transdisziplinären Projekt „Fab City: Dezentrale digitale Produktion für die urbane Wertschöpfung“
Kober et al. (2025)Success criteria for value-oriented digital twin development and implementation: insights from an industry case study
Omer et al. (2025)Enabling Technology Diffusion with the Open Lab Starter Kit
Redlich et al. (2025)AI Meets Distributed Manufacturing: Wie KI die Verbreitung digitaler Fertigung fördert
Redlich et al. (2025)Entwicklung eines automatischen Open-Source-Werkzeugwechslers
Moritz et al. (2024)Global collaboration, local production – how Fab Cities enable a circular economy
Moritz et al. (2024)Einführung: Wie Fab Cities zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung beitragen
Moritz et al. (2024)Global collaboration, local production: Fab City als Modell für Kreislaufwirtschaft und nachhaltige Entwicklung
Saubke et al. (2024)Open Hardware – Evaluation Criteria Concerning the Quality and Sufficiency of Technical Documentation
Saubke et al. (2024)Co-Creating Open Hardware – Technological Feasibility Of Measures For A Distributed And Agile Planning Preparation
Saubke et al. (2024)A Survey of Open Source Hardware Developers – Perspectives on Digital Platform-Based Product Development
Saubke et al. (2024)Customer-oriented sustainability criteria for value chains in local production networks of SMEs
Mariscal-Melgar et al. (2024)Exploring Open-Source Software Ecosystems for Hardware Development
Mariscal-Melgar et al. (2024)Sustainable Computing Through Open Standard ISAs: Leveraging Tailor-Fit Hardware Designs for Circular Economies
Di Martino et al. (2024)Case Study OLSK Small Laser/OLSK Small Laser case study – Designing and prototyping open-source digital fabrication machines
Boeing, NielsThe Fab City Index: A Toolkit for Measuring Progress Towards a Circular Economy
Kühr et al. (2024)Circular und Distributed Design im Kontext der Fab City
Mariscal-Melgar et al. (2024)Commercialization of Open Source Hardware: Turning Open Designs into Profit
Kober et al. (2024)Digital Twin Stakeholder Communication: Characteristics, Challenges, and Best Practices
Kober (2024)Zielorientierte und nutzenzentrierte Entwicklung und Implementierung von Digital Twins in Fertigungsunternehmen
Kober et al. (2024)Digital Twins: A Critical Perspective and Research Trends
Buxbaum-Conradi et al. (2024)What kind of city is the Fab City? Some theoretical groundings and intellectual predecessors of the Fab City Project
Wildhack et al. (2024)Transitioning to a fab city: a governance perspective how transition management can promote urban change – case study hamburg
Lange et al. (2024)On the usability of open-source machine tools
Omer et al. (2023)Exploring the Potential of Open Source Machine Tools for Sustainable Industrial Development in Low Resource Contexts – A Case Study of Migrant-Run Microenterprises in Oman
Peuckert & Kern (2023)How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities
Saubke et al. (2023)Product Development through Co-Creation Communities – General Measures For A Distributed And Agile Planning Preparation in Cross-Company Production
Mariscal-Melgar et al. (2023)Semi-Automatic Generation of Assembly Instructions for Open Source Hardware
Mariscal-Melgar & Hijma (2023)OSH Automated Documentation – Creating an Assembly Manual for a Vise Video
Mariscal-Melgar & Hijma (2023)OSH Automated Documentation – Overview Video
Mariscal-Melgar & Hijma (2023)Common Lisp Scribble Subset Parser
Mariscal-Melgar & Hijma (2023)FreeCAD for OSH Automated Documentation
Mariscal-Melgar & Hijma (2023)FreeCAD OSH Automated Documentation Arch Linux Package
Mariscal-Melgar & Hijma (2023)FreeCAD OSH Automated Documentation Workbench
Mariscal-Melgar & Hijma (2023)Live Image for OSH Automated Documentation
Mariscal-Melgar & Hijma (2023)OSH Automated Documentation Base
Mariscal-Melgar & Hijma (2023)OSH Automated Documentation Data
Mariscal-Melgar & Hijma (2023)OSH Automated Documentation PDF
Mariscal-Melgar & Hijma (2023)OSH Automated Documentation Apptainer
Omer & Mariscal-Melgar (2023)CNC Gas Cutter G-Code Generation Toolkit
Hildebrandt & Wulfsberg (2023)Open PPS – Konzeption eines Modells zur Produktionsplanung und -steuerung für dezentrale, vernetzte und offene Produktionswerkstätten
Lange et al. (2023)Sozio-technische einflussfaktoren auf die bedienbarkeit von werkzeugmaschinen: Eine explorative studie zur erhebung zentraler einflussbereiche der bedienbarkeit aus anwender-, ausbilder- und entwicklerperspektive
Omer et al. (2023)Pushing the frontiers of personal manufacturing with open source machine tools
Omer et al. (2023)Exploring the potential of open source machine tools for sustainable industrial development in low resource contexts – a case study of migrant-run microenterprises in oman
Schlömer et al. (2023)Die erkundung von phänomenen und schlüsselstellen des transfers von berufsbildung für eine nachhaltige entwicklung (BBNE) – eine transfermodellierung
Simon et al. (2023)Enhancing SLM Stainless Steel: Model-Based Parameter Optimization
Kober et al. (2023)A Method for Calculating Optimum Digital Twin Fidelity
Kober et al. (2023)Relations of Digital Twin Fidelity and Benefits: A Design-to-Value Approach
Markert et al. (2023)Enhancing Operations Planning and Scheduling in Dynamic Production Systems by Using CLIP
Krenz et al. (2023)Identification of Action Areas for the Promotion of Local Manufacturing in Reference to System Theory
Moritz et al. (2022)Who are your Design Heroes?: Finding and Understanding Lead Solvers in Innovation-Contest Communities
Omer et al. (2022)Democratising Fab Labs with Open Source Machine Tools
Ingrassia et al. (2022)The journey of Fabulaser Mini: designing, making and documenting of an open source, Fablab produced, laser cutter
Hildebrandt et al. (2022)Labor für intelligente Leichtbauproduktion in der Metropolregion Hamburg
Hildebrandt et al. (2022)Wissenstransfer für die intelligente Fabrik
Hildebrandt et al. (2022)Open Source Hardware and Decentralized Urban Production for Urgently Needed Products during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Hildebrandt et al. (2022)What are the Role and Capabilities of Fab Labs as a Contribution to a Resilient City? Insights from the Fab City Hamburg
Mariscal-Melgar et al. (2022)Distributed Manufacturing: A High-Level Node-Based Concept for Open Source Hardware Production
Buxbaum-Conradi et al. (2022)Fab City Hamburg: A living lab approach to explore new forms of open, distributed manufacturing in an urban context
Lange et al. (2022)Community-based replication of open source machine tools
Omer et al. (2022)Democratizing manufacturing – conceptualizing the potential of open source machine tools as drivers of sustainable industrial development in resource constrained contexts
Pacuku et al. (2022)Idea evaluation by citizens : the hamburg fab city maker challenge case
Schulz et al. (2022)dtec.bw-Beiträge der helmut-schmidt-universität / universität der bundeswehr hamburg: Forschungsaktivitäten im zentrum für digitalisierungs- und technologieforschung der bundeswehr dtec.bw
Stieler (2022)Fab city hamburg – kreislauf auf hanseatisch
Kühr & Günter (2022)How FCOS fosters Circular Design
Kober et al. (2022)Digital Twin Fidelity Requirements Model for Manufacturing
Kober et al. (2022)Challenges of Digital Twin Application in Manufacturing
Markert et al. (2022)Cross-Company Routing Planning: Determining Value Chains in a Dynamic Production Network Through a Decentralized Approach
Krenz et al. (2022)Production Next Door – A business model for local, sustainable production
Krenz et al. (2022)The Phenomenon of Local Manufacturing: An Attempt at a Differentiation of Distributed, Re-distributed and Urban Manufacturing
Krenz et al. (2021)Towards Smaller Value Creation Cycles: Key Factors and their Interdependencies for Local Manufacturing
Hildebrandt et al. (2021)Production Planning And Control In Distributed And Networked Open Production Sites – An Integrative Literature Review
Seidel et al. (2021)Fab City OS – Giving designers the infrastructure needed to flip the power relations of our current productive model. This is Distributed Design – Making a local & global design paradigm.
Hildebrandt et al. (2020)Urbane Mikrofabriken für die hybride Produktion
Hildebrandt et al. (2020)Persönliche Schutzausrüstung aus der hybriden urbanen Mikrofabrik
Moritz & Redlich (2019)How to Co-create Value with Users: A Case Study on Local Motors’ Contest Community
Moritz et al. (2019)On the Economic Value of Open Source Hardware – Case Study of an Open Source Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner
Redlich et al. (2019)Co-Creation: Reshaping Business and Society in the Era of Bottom-up Economics
Redlich et al. (2019)Introduction: Co-creation in the Era of Bottom-Up Economics
Moritz et al. (2019)Best Practices and Pitfalls in Open Source Hardware
Moritz et al. (2019)Kollaboration und Wettbewerb bei Ideenwettbewerben – eine Userperspektive
Redlich et al. (2019)Unsicherheiten der Technikentwicklung als gesellschaftliches und politisches Handlungsfeld
Redlich & Moritz (2018)Die Zukunft der Wertschöpfung – dezentral, vernetzt und kollaborativ
Redlich et al. (2018)Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zur Zukunft der Wertschöpfung
Buxbaum-Conradi et al. (2018)Lokale Einbettung und globale Kollaborationsprozesse offener Produktionswerkstätten: Ein Einblick in die deutsche und arabische Maker-Community
Redlich et al. (2017)Digitale Produktion: Bottom-up-Ökonomie
Fette et al. (2017)New Methods for Computing and Developing Hybrid Sheet Molding Compound Structures for Aviation Industry
Moritz et al. (2016)Value creation in open-source hardware communities: Case study of Open Source Ecology
Moritz et al. (2016)Collaborative Competition or Competitive Collaboration? Exploring the User Behavior Paradox in Community-based Innovation Contests
Redlich et al. (2016)OpenLabs — Open Source Microfactories Enhancing the FabLab Idea
Redlich & Moritz (2016)Bottom-up Economics. Foundations of a Theory of Distributed and Open Value Creation
Buxbaum-Conradi et al. (2016)Local Embedding and Global Collaboration of Open Innovation, Production and Maker Spaces – The (uncovered) potential of knowledge transfer and collaboration at the grassroots level
Buxbaum-Conradi et al. (2016)Conceptualizing Hybrid Human-Machine Systems and Interaction
Moritz et al. (2015)Tesla Motors, Inc.: Pioneer towards a new strategic approach in the automobile industry along the open source movement?
Redlich et al. (2015)Why traditional (manufacturing) industry will suffer the fate of print media
Redlich et al. (2015)Survival through Openness – How Traditional Industry could avoid the Fate of Print Media
Redlich et al. (2015)OpenLabs – Collaborative Industrialization with Distributed and Open Source Microfactories
Redlich et al. (2015)The Strategy of Openness in industrial production
Buxbaum-Conradi et al. (2015)Sozial nachhaltige Entwicklung technischer Unterstützungssysteme
Buxbaum-Conradi et al. (2015)Modularization and the Dynamics of Inter-organizational Collaboration: Producing and Bridging Spatial and Organizational Distances
Redlich et al. (2014)Openness and Trust in Value Co-Creation: Potentials for Inter-organizational Knowledge Transfer and New Business Models
Redlich et al. (2014)The Impact of Openness on Value Co-Creation in Production Networks
Redlich & Wulfsberg (2011)Open Production – Framework for Co-creative Product Realization
Redlich (2011)Wertschöpfung in der Bottom-up-Ökonomie
Redlich (2010)Open Production – a Scientific Framework for Co-creative Product Realization
Redlich & Wulfsberg (2010)Open Production Gestaltungsmodell für die Wertschöpfung in der Bottom-up-Ökonomie
Redlich et al. (2010)Wissenschaftliche Fundierung der Wertschöpfungsgestaltung in der Bottom-up-Ökonomie
Redlich et al. (2009)Neue Kooperationsmuster in Entwicklung und Produktion: Open Production
Redlich et al. (2008)Virtual Factory for Customized Open Production
Redlich & Bruhns (2008)Open Production: A New Broker-Based Approach to Interactive Value Creation and User Manufacturing
Redlich et al. (2008)Square Foot Manufacturing: Event-Driven Manufacturing by Means of Multifunctional Work Spaces