Introducing readiness scales for effective reuse of open source hardware

Open source hardware (OSH) describes physical products that allow for "anyone to study, modify, produce, and distribute them". While OSH principles aim to support design reuse, recent studies have challenged whether this is properly applied in practice. Therefore, this article delivers an...

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Published in:Procedia CIRP 2022, Vol.109, p.635-640
Main Authors: Mies, Robert, Häuer, Martin, Hassan, Mehera
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
design reuse
documentation readiness
open innovation
open source hardware
open source product development
technology readiness
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Summary:Open source hardware (OSH) describes physical products that allow for "anyone to study, modify, produce, and distribute them". While OSH principles aim to support design reuse, recent studies have challenged whether this is properly applied in practice. Therefore, this article delivers an assessment scheme that allows to identify the readiness of OSH designs for reuse. Testing the scheme on OSH ventilator designs collected by the Publnv ventilator project showed overall good usefulness of the scheme and emphasised the need of unambiguous assessment scales based on common standards. Less than two thirds of Publnv’s listed projects fulfilled minimum criteria for openness.
ISSN:2212-8271
2212-8271
DOI:10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.306