How can decentralized networks transform manufacturing? Andrew Lamb, Chair of the Internet of Production Alliance, shares his vision how he uses 3D Printing and digital fabrication to enable ‘production by the masses’.
Have the inhumanity and environmental destructiveness of global supply chains got you down? What about the rapaciousness of multinational corporations who have twisted globalization into a nightmare for so many people on Earth? Here’s one thing you can do about it: you can support the growing movement known as distributed production. In Episode 3 of Season 4, researcher Sarah Hutton of the Internet of Production Alliance explains what distributed production is, why it’s all about people power, and exactly why it is a completely radical and powerfully democratizing activity that is also better for local jobs, local communities, and the environment.
In this episode of Stories of Innovation, Andrew Lamb shares his experience from incubating Field Ready at Nepal Innovation Lab to scaling its impact in some of the complex humanitarian response settings. He portrays the need of decentralizing the global supply chain so that the relief products are cheaper, efficient, and faster. In addition, he shares his vision on expansion of 3D printing beyond the enthusiast circle and how this will change the world we live in.
