The post-industrial revolution is changing the way products are created,traded and distributed. Now everyone can engage in the manufacturing process through their PCs –bringing personal manufacturing of individualized products to the masses.
Ponoko is the world’s first personal manufacturing platform. It’s the online space for a community of creators and consumers to use a global network of digital manufacturing hardware to co-create,make and trade individualized product ideas on demand.
The Ponoko marketplace connects creators,consumers,digital manufacturing hardware and service providers to promote,make and trade products on Ponoko and social networking websites.
Why this idea is different:
- It makes it easier and cheaper for designers to bring their ideas to market and makes it easier and cheaper for consumers to buy products that aren’t mass produced.
- Products can be made anywhere in the world.
- Products can be made close to where a buyer lives,they don’t have to be shipped over great distances or stored in bulk in warehouses. This keeps costs down and is kinder on the environment.
- Digital manufacturers get access to pre-paid customers. The online system makes it easy and straightforward for them to quote jobs,communicate with customers,receive design files and order materials.
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