Robert Mies

• Doctor of Engineering
• Research Associate at Technische Universität Berlin

While free and open-source software has become a mature concept, open-source co-creation and sharing of hardware comes with the need for organizing a much more diverse set of disciplines and capabilities. A steadily growing number of companies develop open-source hardware (OSH) products based on the existing body of free technological knowledge tod...

Open source hardware (OSH) is a practical phenomenon transferring the idea of open source from software to physical objects. It thus requires theoretical founding with regard to epistemic knowledge in engineering science. This thesis investigates how the advancement of open source product development processes, openness and cultivation of company c...

Despite being acknowledged as key drivers for socio-economic development, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are still facing major challenges such as resource scarcity and rising competition. By engaging in open collaborative product development, SMEs can benefit from the great potential of open source hardware (OSH) as a strategic source o...

Open source hardware (OSH) describes physical products that allow for "anyone to study, modify, produce, and distribute them". While OSH principles aim to support design reuse, recent studies have challenged whether this is properly applied in practice. Therefore, this article delivers an assessment scheme that allows to identify the readiness of O...

In order to combine fast thinking and slow thinking in product development, a new approach to system modelling in the problem-solving process is developed. For this purpose, five different system modelling use cases are analysed and their activities are attritubted to to one of seven types of activities of the universal SPALTEN problem-solving-fram...

‘Openness’ is one of the key concepts brought forward by postindustrial narratives questioning the modern repartition of roles between industries and customers. In these narratives, citizen participation in design and intellectual property management based on open source principles are the promise of more sustainable production models. In this cont...

This standard delivers an unambiguous and operational definition of the concept of open source hardware and breaks it down into objective criteria for judging the compliance of a piece of hardware with this definition. This standard sets requirements for technical documentation. It is designed to be complementary to existing standards and guideline...

Open source hardware is hardware whose design is shared online so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell it. In spite of the increasing popularity of this alternative IP management approach, the field of OSH remains fragmented of diverse practices seeking for settlement. This challenges providers of groupware solutions to capture...

This report of the European transdisciplinary research project OPENNEXT delivers a framework which aims to maximise effective, uniform, quality output and eliminate misalignment and possible failure to fulfil the committed obligations according to Annex 1 - Description of the action, Grant Agreement 869984 (part a and b). Through a set of appropria...

Kurzfassung Serienanläufe stellen aufgrund ihrer zunehmenden Komplexität immer größere Herausforderungen an produzierende Unternehmen. Dies gilt insbesondere für Lean Start-ups (LSU), die oft nicht über ein systematisches Anlaufmanagement verfügen. Aufbauend auf der in der ZWF-Ausgabe 04/2019 entwickelten Ontologie wird in diesem Beitrag ein Leitfa...

Kurzfassung Serienanläufe stellen aufgrund ihrer zunehmenden Komplexität immer größere Herausforderungen an produzierende Unternehmen. Dies gilt insbesondere für Lean Start-ups (LSU), die oft nicht über ein systematisches Anlaufmanagement verfügen. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird zunächst eine Ontologie zur begrifflichen Definition des Anlaufmanagemen...

Open source hardware is an upcoming phenomenon which bears an enormous potential for reframing the social organization of product development and therewith to disrupt conventional industrial practices. The open source movement has not just contributed greatly to the advancement of the internet, renowned open source software projects like the Apache...

Poster for OSCEdays Berlin 2018

Die letzten zehn Jahre bildeten den Schauplatz für das Aufkommen einer Vielzahl von Projekten zur Entwicklung von Open-Source-Hardware (OSH), welche das dezentrale Entwicklungskonzept der Open-Source-Software (OSS) auf die Welt der physischen Produkte übertragen. Diese Projekte sind gekennzeichnet durch die Offenlegung von technischen Daten zur Sti...

Open Source Hardware (OSH) products are those whose design are made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell them. In spite of the increasing popularity of this novel approach to intellectual property in product innovation, practice communities have faced difficulties to refine this concept into sharp and prac...

What " open source " means once applied to tangible products has been so far mostly addressed through the light of licensing. While this approach is suitable for software, it appears to be over-simplistic for complex hardware products. Whether such a product can be labelled as open source is not only a question of licence but a question of document...

Open source innovation is a well-studied phenomenon of the ICT sector, but its evolution towards the field of tangible hardware product development is a newer phenomenon which remains mostly theoretical. Existing literature has identified that to push existing open source product development (OSPD) practice towards the achievement of high quality c...

Within the last decade numerous open source product development (OSPD) projects have emerged extending the concept of open source software in the world of tangible products. These projects are characterized by the free revealing of their product development information with the intention of stimulating community feedback, product replications and c...