Traditionally, new products are closely guarded before being launched onto the market. Then, and only then, does the public get to weigh in with their feedback. The drawbacks of this approach are ...

If you are running R&D at a large appliance manufacturer, you have a challenge. You typically make products in enormous quantities at pretty slim margins. In order to recoup your development, tooling ...

The FirstBuild microfactory set up shop in 2014. Backed by GE Appliances. FirstBuild's mission is to harness crowdsourced product ideas and design input, then make limited batches of small appliances.

First year generates over 7,500 global FirstBuild™ online community members, 800+ product ideas, eight new product introductions, over 40 collaborative projects with University of Louisville and other ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anyone who has baked a cake has stood by the oven checking it every minute until the toothpick comes out clean. FirstBuild™, a global co-creation community backed by ...

GE and Local Motors announced a partnership back in April for FirstBuild, a Louisville, Ky.-based microfactory. FirstBuild is geared toward appliance innovations; particularly, maker-style mods that ...

In Louisville, Kentucky, just about anyone can walk into GE Appliances' new innovation hub and pitch an idea for what could become the company's next big product. GE Appliances, once a unit of General ...

With one year in the rearview mirror, FirstBuild takes lessons learned as GE’s first startup, global online co-creation community and microfactory to plan for what is shaping up to be an even more ...

GE Appliances microfactory and community maker space, FirstBuild, just celebrated its 10th anniversary. The factory on the University of Louisville's campus opened a decade ago to create a new space ...

Sometimes the best way to promote innovation at your company is to shelter innovators from the company. Anyone can walk into a GE Appliances FirstBuild facility and play with everything from CNC ...

More corporations are recognizing the efficacy of capturing consumer feedback by using crowdfunding to pretail forthcoming products. General Electric, a multi-national corporate behemoth is one of ...

FirstBuild™ designs, builds and sells home appliances using an online co-creation community and micromanufacturing model to accelerate new product introductions This new model enables faster ...