What are the hardware development platforms?

Industrial manufacturing is a very important part of a country’s comprehensive strength. In 2011, Germany proposed the Industry 4.0 plan, and similar concepts include Made in China 2025 and the U.S. Manufacturing Revitalization Plan. China and Germany have always had very close cooperation in the field of industrial manufacturing. With the proposal of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Plan, the traditional domestic industrial system has also been given a new development direction.

German Industry 4.0 is mainly divided into three major themes: one is "smart factory", the other is "intelligent production", and the third is "intelligent logistics". Intelligence is the only label in this industrial revolution, and it will also begin to affect all production-related industries.

Judging from the included companies and platforms, they basically meet the distinctive characteristics of intelligence, including electronic product R&D crowdsourcing, production R&D crowdsourcing, hardware development modular crowdsourcing, intelligent product development outsourcing, and creativity. Hardware products, radio frequency technology solutions, intelligent hardware supply chain services, incubation acceleration and e-commerce marketing and other full supply chains.

For example, it provides comprehensive, customizable, and constantly innovative marketing and promotion solutions for semiconductor industry manufacturers. Including technical media information, electronic engineer community, resource interaction and downloading, project outsourcing, technical courses, talent recruitment, exhibition services, etc., covering a full range of technology research and development and industry application fields in the electronics/semiconductor industry.

There is a model of crowdsourcing ideas first and then mass production. Quirky, a company known as the most creative manufacturer in the world, proposed voting for creative products and then producing them based on the number of approvals. Unfortunately, Quirky declared bankruptcy in 2015, and the reasons were specifically mentioned in the forum. Domestic crowdfunding such as Taobao and JD.com are also models of crowdfunding innovation and product development. Their profit models were initially favored by many institutions, but after some competition and elimination, the last remaining companies were all backed by Dashan, a well-funded company.

These electronic and hardware product crowdsourcing development platforms require the active participation of full-time, part-time and freelance workers from the society, and prepare appropriate remuneration to exchange personal creative concepts, software and hardware R&D experience, and marketing E-commerce capabilities.

List of 19 companies: EDA365 Electronic Forum (/), Kaifabao, Jiangsu University Shi, Doushi.com, Kuabao, RFsister service platform, IdeeBank, HWtrek, 100mi, Ingdan.com, 21ic project Outsourcing, Tuya Intelligence, Taihuo Bird, Thermal Field, JD.com JD+ Open Incubator, Terrace Youchuang, Block Cloud, Pantex, Anchuang Space