Large products require machines to help lift and move, take up more room in the warehouse, require long sales cycles, and large production machinery. This is not condusive to keeping satellite production small and low cost. Having small satellite units help keep a more initmae feel for the manufacturing village.
Each manufacturing village should have some continuity such as a vertical market. Some satellites could produce sub-assemblies for other satellites.
While I will have a list of ideas, these are the first ones I'd like to see created.
- Custom sweaters and sweatshirts using latest automation
- For women in cold offices
- For golfers
- Kevlar garements for motorcycle riders
- Style concious customers
- Composit laminates
- Garden decorations like giant pots, waterfalls, and bridges
- Decoration for motorcycles and hot rods
- 3D printed for casting
- Jewelry for young people
- Jewelry for motorcycle people
- Wood working
And so on. It doesn't matter what is made just as long as the most modern automation is utilized, keep the product small, and sell on the internet directly to customers. Wholesale is a secondary channel.