PRODUCTIVIST – AN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0
Overview
The first peer-to-peer network connecting private and professional manufacturers to their clients by mapping global manufacturing capacities. The Productivist blockchain project aims to create an open data stream where private individuals and companies of any scale can contribute to power the Industrial Revolution 4.0. The manufacturing world has reached a point where the only solution to prevail is heavy investments, relocations and aggressive management.
Problems
Facing the Industrial Revolution 4.0, manufacturing companies are challenged to find more efficient ways to handle a global demand with limited investments to stay competitive while buyers demand better sourcing, fairer prices and more transparency in the solutions they’re offered.
Inefficiency - Managing production capacities for global companies or smaller actors is the main issue of manufacturing. The complex orders, multiple clients, geographically distant production sites combined with price competition and emerging markets’ new actors force heavy investments does not leave room nor time for improvement.
Sourcing Costs - Sourcing materials or manufacturers requires the use of an internal or external broker. The diversity of offers and the multitude of solutions make the selection process a complex one. The result of this is the inevitable increase in production costs.
Minimum Orders - Negotiating with a new manufacturer means trusting them with quality and delivery deadlines, while on the manufacturer side, negotiating with a new client requires securing payment.
Track Records - When searching for the right counterpart, obtaining proof of past work or past transactions is the key to a secured transaction but can rarely be achieved. The opacity of some providers and lack of history of newcomer’s limit choices and encourage companies to give preference to expensive historic actors.
Tracking Progress - As a purchaser, order tracking is vital to monitoring the supply chain and adapting it to meet client needs.
IP Protection - Protecting Intellectual assets is a top priority for industrial companies. Maintaining an advantage over competitors is the key to growth.
Sourcing Experts - Purchasers often lack the technical understanding to contact the right manufacturer for their product. Often the result of this is both financial and time loss.
Solutions
A Public Blockchain - The Productivist Blockchain Project will be able to build an open system that will manage the chain of command of manufacturing 4.0 by decentralizing production: a remote and effective solution for manufacturers and their clients with secured data and transactions but also transparency:
- Digital - Transferring a file with its technical information. For example, the. stl file is the list of coordinates provided by a slicer (a stereolithography software) or Gcode. With such a file we can guarantee the authorship, safeguarding, and destination of this file when it travels through the blockchain.
- Hardware - Connecting a manufacturing machine to our blockchain makes it “smart” and enables the real-time monitoring of the production.
- By connecting all these machines to our trusted network, we can detect production time availability and send instructions to available machines.
A Device that connects them all - To develop connectivity for all hardware, we are creating a smart device allowing any machine or system to connect to the Productivist Blockchain Project.
Connecting a manufacturing machine to the Productivist blockchain will be advantageous for its owner. Not only will he have a remote access to its production schedule, but if “commercial mode” is activated, it will be possible, to send production instructions directly to his machine and fill production time voids without his intervention. The optimization of production capacities that our solution offers will bring economies of scale to a saturated market.
If no commercial mode is detected, the use of our blockchain will be completely free. The biggest users, companies or industries, will make a free block- chain by paying for their own private access.
The Productivist Blockchain Project will also allow us to integrate Freelabster in this system as the first brick of commercial use of this blockchain and develop the Productivist Solution for bigger manufacturers and achieve the goal of creating a map of global manufacturing capacities.
What is Freelabster
Freelabster.com is an interactive platform which brings consumers and 3D printing experts together providing them with a virtual market place. The concept is based on that of tendering. The consumer will present his project to the marketplace and Freelabsters are invited to tender thus propagating competitivity and therefore making the pricing more attractive to the consumer. This concept is highly advantageous to our 3D printing experts as it provides them with an extended marketplace to do business on.
The Team
BENJAMIN PESTEL - Co-founder & CEO
STANISLAS GOBERT - Co-founder & CTO
MÉLISSA IBGHI - Co-founder & CLO
MAZEN GHARBI - Co-founder & Full stack Engineer
ALVARO CANTON - Co-founder & Head of Communications
MARTHA SCOTT - Strategy and Business Developer (EN)
Token Matrix
Token - PROD
Pre-ICO Price - 1 PROD = 0.065 EUR
Price - 1 PROD = 0.1 EUR
Minimum investment - 1 EUR
Soft cap - 2,000,000 EUR
Hard cap - 20,000,000 EUR
Verdict
The Productivist platform seems well thought of with adequate information for interested parties. The information on the site is also simple and easy to understand even for beginners. Even if we can’t tell for sure if the ICO will be a success or not, overall we feel the site seems legit. However, we urge you to be vigilant in your investment plans.
Productivist digital platform sets to connect manufacturers and their potential clients. Through the use of the leading blockchain technology, the developers hope to solve the transparency and costly issues facing the sector. They find the idea intriguing, hence hope it’s heading for success.
Website - https://ico.productivist.com/en/
Whitepaper - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oksLkRIWWF03NJzxPX_EUbC22041hjhk/view