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MadeCellby N+1 Labs

Flexible manufacturing pods in a shipping container. Ship one in. Run it. Pack it up. Ship it on. A concept, designed in the Golden Twin.

Watch one arrive Walk the line in 3D
A pale gold MadeCell 40 container up on its jacks as the truck that brought it pulls away.

01The lifecycle

Ship it. Run it. Move it.

The machines stay bolted to the base. Only the shell comes off, and goes back on. Drag to orbit. Pick a mode.

  1. Concept render of a generic container ship at sea. The pale gold MadeCell 40 sits on the outboard row among grey containers.
    01By sea
  2. Concept render of the same MadeCell 40 on a railway flatcar behind a generic locomotive, with grey containers on the cars behind.
    02By rail
  3. Concept render of the same MadeCell 40 on a truck trailer on a road.
    03By road

Then the truck backs it in.

Shell off. Same base, same machines. The line runs.A concept, not a product. Planning dimensions from the MadeCell v0.1 brief. Fit, safety and transport are unvalidated.
  1. 01 · Ship inOne 40 ft container, by road, rail or sea.
  2. 02 · RunShell off. The line runs.
  3. 03 · Pack upShell back on. Machines stay bolted down.
  4. 04 · Move onRequalify in the Golden Twin, then run again.

02The pod

Eight stations on one base.

Two rows of stations face outward. Pallets ride a conveyor down the middle. The shell lifts off. The machines stay.

Base
40 × 8 ft
Bays
4 × 2.5 m
Stations
8
Conveyor
0.6 m
Engineering drawing of one MadeCell 40 assembly pod. Plan: a 12 192 by 2 438 mm base in four 2 500 bays with 1 096 end zones, eight 2 280 by 750 stations S1 to S8 facing outward from a 600 wide central pallet conveyor, and 1 000 operator strips on the host floor. Side elevation: deck 300, work height 950, high cube shell 2 896 shown dashed. A specification table and a title block reading concept, planning dimensions, not a fit check.

Planning dimensions from the MadeCell v0.1 brief. In millimetres.A concept drawing. Not a fit check.

03Why pods

The line goes where the work is.

Demand and trade move faster than buildings. A pod moves with them.

Move with demandWhen demand or trade shifts, ship the line.
Qualify onceThe Golden Twin checks the line before it ships, and again where it lands.
Scale by the podMore capacity is another MadeCell, not a new building.
Clean when neededA cleanroom shell for products that need one.
Site plan of a MadeCell yard. Five pods on the same 12 192 by 2 438 mm base stand side by side with 3 000 aisles, 24 190 wide in all. Inspection and IQC with a CMM, vision and gauge benches and racks. Additive with eight printer cells. CNC with three machining centres. Assembly with eight stations on a central conveyor. Test with eight fixtures on a central conveyor. Material flows from IQC through additive and CNC to assembly and test.

Five pods. One base and shell.Equipment envelopes are illustrative. Not a fit check.

04The first line

Plus One on a MadeCell 40.

Our own device is the first line laid out on it. About 10,000 a month, seven people, one pod. Plus a test cell beside it.

Plus One's line on a MadeCell base in the Golden Twin, gold points with the stations that scrapped units in red. Golden Twin · Plus One · MadeCell 40 Walk the line in 3D
Floor plan drawing of Plus One's balanced line on a MadeCell 40, to scale in millimetres. A 12 192 by 2 438 base in four 2 500 bays, workstations W1 to W4 with second copies of W3 and W4, a test cell of three fixtures past the output end, a 600 wide conveyor and an overhead restock rail, in a 21 600 by 6 438 room. Title block reads proposal, positions assumed, uncalibrated, not a fit check.

Floor plan from the line layout in Plus One’s Open Product. To scale, in millimetres.Positions assumed. Not a fit check.

A concept, not a product. Fit, safety and transport are unvalidated. Simulated from assumed values. Nothing is built.

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