R&D Town

R & D Town was an idea I had written many years ago in Turkish. I would like to re-emphasize it for its importance for the advancements of the mankind. Research and Development is a long and expensive process. The improvements on this process are beneficial for everyone.

The idea is to aggregate everything related with R&D in a town and make it operate 7 / 24. There would be no stationary company operating in the town. All the scientists and engineers would work project based. Only technicians operating the machines and assisting in the labs would be the permanent employees of the town.

The labs would be specially designed to accommodate many equipment on demand, would have proper air ventilation and resting areas for the researches. Researching is not a 9:00 to 18:00 work. The researches would continue experimenting for many hours when they are focused. That’s why the labs would have proper resting areas for quick refreshments for the researches. The accommodations would also be close to the labs. No time would be lost due to traffic.

The town would have a central on demand computer aided manufacturing facility. It would have the latest 3D printers, CNC machines, Laser Cutters and more. It would be operational 7 / 24 to minimize the delay between product iterations. If a design is finalized in the middle of the night, its manufacturing will start immediately and the end product will be available for inspection in the morning. Researching is a long and tiresome process, speeding up the individual sub processes increase the motivation and reduce the overall cost. Additionally, finding qualified technicians is not easy. Aggregating the processes and gathering the people and machinery in one location allows more efficient use of resources.

R&D town has a much wider scope than the vertically and horizontally integrated space hub I had proposed earlier. It is a one stop research area for big projects like Manhattan, Apollo and many others. Once the technology is perfected the end products can be manufactured on other locations.

The second most important objective of the town would be to develop and optimize the mass production of products developed. Within the town, there would be locations to build production lines to perfect the manufacturing processes. Afterwards, the production line would be disassembled and re assembled on the factory location again.