Contributor path
Help with code, documentation, tests, architecture, DevOps, data engineering, AI workflows, security review, and manufacturing domain review.
Build with the community.
Open Factory Initiative needs technical contributors, manufacturing expertise, research collaboration, responsible partners, advisors, and mission-aligned funding.
Manufacturing site path
Share use cases, operational constraints, historian patterns, validation requirements, and practical feedback that can shape site-specific onboarding patterns.
Site-specific onboarding path
Manufacturing, quality, automation, validation, and AI contributors can help define how a site maps assets, procedures, terminology, data sources, and governance requirements into the Factory Intelligence Platform.
AI/ML evaluation path
Help define careful SLM/LLM evaluation workflows, RAG-before-fine-tuning patterns, model governance records, refusal behavior checks, and evidence-grounded decision-support tests.
Quality and validation path
Contribute practical CSV/CSA, validation-aware documentation, risk classification, intended-use, audit evidence, and human-review workflow input.
Automation and integration path
Help shape site, area, line, asset, tag, historian, MES, QMS, CMMS, ERP, and event-contract mapping patterns for future Site AI Package work.
Researcher path
Collaborate on governed AI, factory context modeling, open manufacturing infrastructure, cybersecurity, software assurance, and human-centered decision support.
Cybersecurity, AI, and validation expert path
Help shape security, AI/ML evaluation, software assurance, CSV/CSA, and responsible adoption patterns.
Funder and partner path
Support public-benefit open-source software for manufacturing transparency, resilience, and responsible AI adoption.
Advisory involvement
Provide practical input on manufacturing needs, validation-readiness, cybersecurity boundaries, nonprofit governance, community building, and technical roadmap priorities.
Not sure where you fit?
Send a short note with your background, the kind of contribution or partnership you want to explore, and any relevant manufacturing, research, software, security, or validation context.
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