The maker movement — a term used for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers — is helping reimagine the idea of the “factory” that many of us once knew.
As new technologies and tools, like 3-D printers and social media platforms, galvanize an era of technologists of all stripes, established businesses are tapping into these nontraditional creators to open up the manufacturing process to fresh talent. Through creative collaboration and crowdsourcing, the maker movement is, in a sense, democratizing the manufacturing industry.(…)
