A shared service facility that will help people transform their ideas into reality is set to be launched Wednesday, 17 August 2016 at the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) in Iligan City.
A Shared Service Facility (SSF) of the Dept of Trade and Industry, FAB LAB Mindanao is Mindanao’s 1st digital fabrication laboratory that helps researchers & businesses create prototypes of their designs
“Fab Lab (Fabrication Laboratory) is a technical prototyping platform for innovation and invention, providing stimulus for local entrepreneurship,” said Lemuel Clark P. Velasco, associate professor and facility manager. “A fab lab is also a platform for learning and innovation: a place to play, to create, to learn, to mentor, and to invent. But it is not just place, fab lab is a movement where ideas, and innovation happens.”
FAB LAB Mindanao
Set up as a shared service facility (SSF) by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), FAB LAB is a digital fabrication laboratory with sophisticated equipment that is open to all students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and the people all over Mindanao to help them transform their ideas to designs and their designs to prototypes which can be easily manufactured.
The FAB LAB Mindanao team aims to demonstrate the lab and the team’s capabilities in becoming Mindanao’s Center for Innovation and Invention during its 17 August 2016 launch and exhibit. Also to be launched on the same date are the DTI Negosyo Center and Technology Business Incubator (TBI).
The operators in training of Fab Lab Mindanao.
“Fab Lab is a college, there will be students and academic programs that is designed and developed to build projects,” Velasco said. “There will be inventors and entrepreneurs that will cultivate, generate new ideas, develop innovation and help the local communities in Mindanao as they develop their products and services.”
It also has workshops and programs that will help the people in generating ideas and innovations, he added.
For instance, from 2D and 3D designs of research and development projects internal and external to MSU-IIT, FAB LAB Mindanao offers fabrication services in ideation, designing, fabrication and small scale manufacturing to the entrepreneurs and innovators of Mindanao.
Mobile Robots (MOBOTs) are autonomous electronic platform that has wheels. It can be controlled using an application software for its telemetry and movements.
The FAB LAB also has Mobile Robots (MOBOTs), autonomous electronic platform on wheels that can be controlled through application software for its telemetry and movements. The applications of these robots range from autonomous navigation technology up to space exploration.
A pre-launch orientation was held last May 20, 2016 to present the FAB LAB services to potential clients at the DTI Lanao del Norte Negosyo Center.
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DTI Lanao del Norte Provincial Director Ruel Paclipan describes FAB LAB as a technical prototyping platform for innovation and invention that could help make prototypes and products such as equipment, machinery and electronic gadgets; scale models, illustrate graphic designs and mass-produce products.
“With the Fab lab, micro, small and medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) are given the opportunity to avail of new prototyping technologies and software in designing and manufacturing to match the market competition,” Paclipan said.
Fab Lab Mindanao also aims to be a training center and a service bureau for outsourced research and development, he added.
Fab Lab Mindanao Center for Innovation & Invention is located at RM 122, Level 1 College of Engineering, MSU-IIT, A-Bonifacio Ave., Iligan City, Philippines.
For more details contact Lemuel Clark P. Velasco, phone: +63935-868-8933, email: fablab@g.msuiit.edu.ph, fablab.msuiit.edu.ph, fablabs.io/fablabmindanao, fb.com/FabLabMindanao (With a report from LVG/PIA-10 LDN)
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