At InMachines in Schwarzenbek, the final version of the Open Lab Starter Kit (OLSK) was presented by Daniele Ingrassia and his team, marking the completion of phase one of the dtec.bw and EU-funded project "Fab City: Decentralised, Digital Production for Urban Value Creation."
The Fab City Global Initiative promotes local production through digital fabrication, aiming for sustainable and resilient cities. Since 2019, Hamburg has advanced this vision with events like workshops at Scholz Mechanik, the Klimakongress at TU Hamburg, and the Hamburg Sustainability Conference, all highlighting the role of digital manufacturing in reducing environmental impact and empowering communities.
On May 30th, InMachines Ingrassia GmbH, in collaboration with the New Production Institute, unveiled the latest iteration of the OpenLab Starter Kit machines. Highlights included the new Large Laser, Large 3D Printer, and the OpenLab Operating System (OLOS).
The OpenLab Microfactory is a small-scale factory with various digital manufacturing machines, such as a small laser cutter, a CNC milling machine and a 3D printer from the OpenLab Starter Kit, a set of open-source machine tools: In the Pop-Up Circular Hub, the New Production Institute of Helmut Schmidt University presents a small-scale factory in the middle of the city on more than 50 square meters.
We were delighted to officially inaugurate the OpenLab Tunis at the CETTEX. The OpenLab Tunis is an open laboratory for digital manufacturing to promote innovation and local value creation with digital manufacturing tools on the way to Industry 4.0 in Tunisia.
On Friday, March 8, the New Production Institute (NPI) from the Helmut Schmidt University launched the new OpenLab Tunis with a soft opening at CETTEX, the Technical Center for the textile industry, in collaboration with GIZ Tunisia, to invite Tunisian Technical Center members to utilize the innovative space for problem-solving in their respective fields.
At the beginning of March 2024, the New Production Institute leads a one-week hackathon to solve industry-relevant problems in the OpenLab Tunis at the CETTEX technical center in Tunis, Tunisia. In the hackathon, the work in an open laboratory for production technologies will be tested in a practical way using various industry-specific cases and the prototyping process will be monitored.
Tunis, November, 2023, Participants of Open Source Hardware Building Workshops at CETTEX and at CETIBA learned how to build CNC machines and Laser Cutters.
On 28th November 2023 the project partners from the research project "Incubation sites: Self-replicating, open production spaces as innovation incubators in Tunisia" (PISWI) visited and assessed the current status of the OpenLab at the neotex 4.0 center at Pôle de Compétitivité de Monastir EL Fejja (mfcpole) in Monastir, Tunisia.
Members of the New Production Institute participated on the inauguration of the “neotex 4.0 center” at Pôle de Compétitivité de Monastir EL Fejja (mfcpole) in Monastir, Tunisia.