{"id":19729,"date":"2019-01-16T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=19729"},"modified":"2019-01-17T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T08:34:05","slug":"inside-made-in-china-dongguan-factories-welcome-fablab-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/inside-made-in-china-dongguan-factories-welcome-fablab-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Made in China: Dongguan Factories Welcome Fablab Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hello community, and welcome back to our third volume of Inside Made in China. For those of you who are new to this series, it is all about how things are \u201cMade in China\u201d. We\u2019re curating series posts to tour you around online to local factories in Dongguan, where sits our new Chaihuo x.factory Dongguan. We regard it as an interface for the global maker community to the local manufacturing system, with the aim to open up the local manufacturing resources to the global maker community, lower the manufacturing barrier and help you to gain a better understanding of the local manufacturing ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the third entry in the series, we have special guests from Spain in the form of the FabLab Barcelona<\/a> students. Lead by an old friend of Seeed, Tomas Diez and co-director Oscar Tomico; the students are in the early stages of the FabLab component of their Masters in Design for Emergent Futures course at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC)<\/a> in cooperation with ELISAVA<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The students come from mixed academic backgrounds and from an even bigger mix of countries, but all have come together to learn about some of the most dynamic innovative ecosystems in the world: Shenzhen and Dongguan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this Chaihuo x.factory Hardware Innovation Tour (HI Tour), we cover the lifecycle of hardware manufacturing essentials from enclosures and PCBs, to finally putting them together in a makerspace<\/g>. Also, we have a bonus trip to a construction site at the forefront of innovative and smart construction.

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Strongd<\/g> Molding<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First stop, Strongd Molding. Strongd molding is a big name in model making for prototyping and large-scale production for the likes of Jaguar, TCL, and Huawei. From car bumpers, stainless steel machine parts, flat-screen television sets to TV remote controls the size of television sets. Is there anything they can\u2019t make?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Capable of plastic and metal CNC machining, 3D printing, injection molding and vacuum casting, Strongd boasts 22 CNC milling and turning machines, 12 monolithic injection molding machines and a vacuum casting workshop for trialing small batches of plastic parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n