https://www.ifixit.com/News/80289/creating-ifixits-gold-standard
"Working at iFixit means repair is always on your mind. As Right-to-Repair
legislation passes and more manufacturers look to us for guidance, we find
ourselves having more and more late-night conversations about what
repairability
really means.
Repair is a complex topic. To successfully repair something, you need a lot of
things—information, parts, tools, and skill—each with its own myriad of
factors, trade offs, and subtext. Even with all those things in place, common
product design “gotchas”—like booby-trap cables or tar-like adhesives—can turn
the entire repair to ruin. So many things can tank a repair: outdated or buggy
software, parts pairing, poor/missing documentation, proprietary tools, the
cost and availability of parts…the list goes on and on. With all that
complexity, how do you know when it’s done right?
Many manufacturers are embracing the future of repair and repairable design,
but they need help. We on iFixit’s Solutions team are here to do just that—help
manufacturers get repair right, from designing easy-to-repair products to
deploying full-scale repair ecosystems with guides, parts, and tools.
Our mission is simple—we want to help everyone fix every thing. But the closer
you look, the more complex it gets. We’ve been working at understanding and
developing repair ecosystems for twenty-plus years and are eager to share what
we have learned. We wanted to distill our experience into a concise, helpful
list that summarizes not only the basics, but our vision for excellence. So we
set about articulating what we are really looking for in a repair
ecosystem—defining the core tenets of what makes repair not only possible, but
pleasurable.
Of course, we have been critical where things have fallen short before—poor
designs with glued-in batteries, lacking or missing documentation, and even
greenwashing in terms of repair programs. But it’s easy to be critical—what’s
much harder, and even more important, is to be constructive, to paint a picture
of the future we want to see."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
