Howling for a New Standard -Deficits in Open Source Hardware Documentation

The sustainable reorganization of value creation structures starts rethinking the whole process, from the initial idea to the end of the product’s life. Open Source Hardware (OSH) offers an approach in which a focal company is no longer the driver of product creation. With the increasing availability and growing number of OSH, a first attempt at standardization was made with DIN SPEC 3105. This research conducts an analysis of existing OSH to identify deficiencies in the Technical Documentation (TD) that impede its reproduction within professionally organized industrial environments, such as in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises.