Toward Production Innovation via FabLab-ITC

Principal Investigator

Dr. Pec Rothna

Tel: 099-785-080 Google Scholar: t.ly/C2U9

Due to the fast industrial growth and the ASEAN market integration, Cambodia will need more high-capacity human resources with technological innovation and invention to keep its economic growth and regional competency strong. A practical workspace equipped with digital fabrication tools is vital for electronics hardware design and customization to achieve product prototyping or small-scale manufacturing, paving the way to bring innovative ideas into the real world. However, such an environment is limited to accessible in Cambodia. FabLab comes to fill this gap with great benefits for the student, instructor, researcher, and industrial developer to validate and materialize their ideas. HEIP-ITC-SGA#02 “Toward Production Innovation via FabLab-ITC” aims to establish of Digital-Control Fabrication Lab (FABLAB) at ITC and focus on the intelligent farm to improve the productivity and management, which is reliable and available to everyone, thereby enabling the concept of Do It Yourself (DIY).

In summary, FabLab is a small-scale workshop offering digital fabrication. It is typically equipped with an array of flexible computer-controlled tools that cover several different length scales and various materials to make “almost anything.” FabLab will be a technical prototyping platform for innovation and invention, providing stimulus for local and international entrepreneurship. Moreover, FabLab is also a platform for learning and innovation: a place to play, create, learn, mentor, and invent. Finally, being a FabLab means connecting to a global community of learners, educators, technologists, researchers, makers, and innovators. The expected outputs include a practical workspace with adequate digital fabrication tools, leading ITC to be the main focal point in Cambodia. FabLab allows all types of small projects related to digital fabrication to be achievable at a low price, especially for students. FabLab will become a place for researchers and innovators to make new products in the form of prototypes, that is, small-scale and low-cost fabrication of a product before transforming into mass production.