Appalachian Manufacturing Initiative

Team Leader

David Moran

Solution Overview

Solution Name:

One-line solution summary:

Economic revitalization through local 3D manufacturing development incorporating nonprofit Facilitation under 4th Manufacturing Revolution

Pitch your solution.

The impact opportunity is a new paradigm for a distributed manufacturing industry for Appalachia and motivated for participating individuals, families and communities. The program consists of a non-profit industrial Facilitation Service Source that provides all industrial service bases for small, local individual or family owned 3D printing profit-making producers financed by nominal percentage on profits.

Facilitation services include: Market need assessments; Education and training; Product development capabilities; Software; Design services; Supply chain requirements; Procurement and delivery; Product quality assurance; Marketing; Sales promotion; Advertising; Distribution; Tariff and tax assessment and monitoring; Financial monitoring and support services tailored to each producer’s needs. Non-Profit administrative costs are borne through percentage commissions on individual profits.

Local for-profit Producers employing three dimensional printing technologies and other appropriate services are individually responsible for meeting requirements and schedules established by the Facilitation and are self- or group-employed for individual income and profit.

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What specific problem are you solving?

The specific problem is empowering individuals to build income without being hired laborers to provide an income to lower skilled individuals through the application of proven technology.

This theory of change arises from the intersection of Motivation – Technology – Services, as outlined in the following Venn Diagram.

MOTIVATION &EDUCATION

PROVEN TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS SERVICES

EASY IMPLEMENTATION CAPITAL FINANCING

Historical conventional manufacturing relies upon the exploitation of labor for profit-making companies. Centralization produces an inequitable distribution of wealth and increased universal poverty. The future standard of living for remote communities requires a new paradigm for the production of goods while simultaneously providing access to that industry through distributed local manufacturing using proven technological capabilities, communications and distribution systems.

The plan therefore employs existing technology and simultaneous social motivation and organization to level the playing field for new entries into capitalistic endeavor, provides the liberties of self-sufficiency and spontaneous collaboration and cooperation of participants, and provides freedom from bureaucracy by ensuring that all participants are responsible for meeting the requirements of consumer supply and demand.

What is your solution?

The project creates a non-profit Facilitation Service Source responsible for developing, motivating, promoting and facilitating the development of individual small for-profit businesses for the production of goods through proven three-dimensional printing processes.

All support services including access to machinery, energy, communications and transportation are the responsibility of the non-profit Facilitation Service Source, a private foundation dedicated to programmatic success and funded by the financial returns of their local product producers through nominal post-facto percentage profit sharing. This is a viable and scalable business plan.

The pilot program develops tests and measures of success continuously.

Capital investment is minor for Facilitation services and nil for participating producers. Amortization of investments arises directly from economic returns based upon a free and motivated cadre of participants.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

This program is formulated for the Appalachian regions of America which are isolated, historically poor and lacking a value-added industrial base offset by mineral and energy extraction. Under existing industrial investments workers have no involvement in the payoff of industry except being a source of unskilled labor. The long history of low motivation coupled to inferior educational resources and an historic lack of role models have crippled generations of communities that subsist on labor in service and low skill industries such as mining, marginal agriculture, hourly labor pools, and employment in the service industries. Appalachian industrial and human development is characteristic of the poverty created by similar conditions throughout the world.

The project develops a new paradigm designed prima-fascia to address simultaneously the issues of human labor, capital intensity, individuals’ motivation, communities for self-sufficiency, education at every level of need, performance motivation and human capability.

Appalachia serves as a test ground for this paradigm and subsequently provides all of the tools and procedures necessary for offering this new approach to manufacturing globally through a horizontal approach to scale where facilitation is uniquely adaptable to local cultural standards.

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Enable small and new businesses, especially in untapped communities, to prosper and create good jobs through access to capital, networks, and technology

Explain how the problem, your solution, and your solution’s target population relate to the Challenge and your selected dimension.

Conventional industrial paradigms for economic enhancement and customer supply are based upon monetary return to centralized corporations for acquisition of corporate wealth and capital. Conventional industries are based upon the unfortunate premises of exploitation of human labor, lack of education, and poor motivation.

This project creates the enfranchisement and motivation of freely participating individuals and groups facilitated through application of proven modern technology for achieving global customer satisfaction, increased standards of living and the eventual elimination of poverty through equitable education and meaningful labor.

The cultural context is universal.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Eglon, WV, USA

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model

Who is the primary delegate for your solution?

Dr. David Moran, CEO, Appalachian Initiative, Inc