The Franchise industry provides a well developed model for Manufacturing Villages.
I've been to seminars and a couple years browsing the floor of the Franchise Show at NYC's Javits Center and a good model.
Reason 1: Maintain quality and consistency
Reason 2: Rapid reproduction of manufacturing villages
Franchise is one of the most regulated words in the English language. The definition consists of various laws, mostly due to trying not to make the franchise model into a fraud and dirty-tricks model. Why go through all the hoops making Central Services a franchise? The franchiser has the power to dictate what the franchiser can and cannot do, such as sell odd brand computers and inferior inks and supplies to their manufacturing villages. Central services defines what software can be used, data backups, communications, and so forth to the last little bit of plant maintenance.
A main point of the manufacturing villages concept is the rapid building of small local manufacturing throughout a country. The goal is to have 100 manufacturing villages within 10 years. Only a franchise model can insure such growth. If you look at franchises like McDonald's, you quickly notice 100's of new restaurants each year. Manufacturing villages are more complicated than franchise restaurants, so I am keeping expansion estimates on the low side. It may take a few years to setup all the technology assets to do the propagation and also each manufacturing village may produce an entirely different type of product and require new technology.
How the central service model is financed is open for discussion. Just assume once one or two manufacturing villages are in working order, interest will come from every corner of our country.