🏭 Manufacturing & Engineering
Beginner
$500 - $5k
CNC job shops community network for SMEs
A members-only community where SMEs share CNC job shops knowledge, opportunities and collaborations.
- Target audience
- SMEs
- Problem solved
- Access to quality CNC job shops is limited for SMEs, especially outside the big cities.
- Solution
- Launch as a lean web app using 3D printers, PLCs and IoT sensors, starting with one core workflow done exceptionally well.
- Technologies
- 3D printers, PLCs, IoT sensors
- Monetization
- Equipment sales; Maintenance contracts
- Challenges
- Skilled labor shortage; Energy costs
- Improvements
- Add a mobile app with offline mode for low-connectivity users.; Add API access so other businesses can integrate with the platform.