Keynectors
A Keynector is the business unit where the production of Keyed components will be made out of recycled plastic for local and online orders.
End Product Summary
A customer uses the Keynector website to browse the various structures finds a shed the size they want. The select it and have a 3D image that they can move around. They decide to purchase the design and get more details about how it is constructed and a parts list. The pay for structure on line and an order is sent to the closest Keynectors, a franchised member, where the part order is automatically loaded into the production software. As the parts are made they are automatically palletized or boxed, depending on quantity, and shipped. The customer will receive one or more deliveries depending on scheduling.
The business model is from to manufacturer to customer, no distribution system. This is allow a higher margin for the Keynector and still a lower cost for the customer.
Keyed bricks are 80% core and 20% case. The core is a recycled plastic composite that uses plastic as a binder to an aggregate such as sand. This could be one part plastic is ground, mixed and melted with six parts sand. This mixture is heated, injected and then cooled to make a core. That room temperature core is then added to a case mold that has key threads on the outside. The hot injected plastic completely entombs that core.
The core acts as a heat sink for additional evenly cooling the threaded case. This is important because the threads are a complex geometry and need to be cooled evenly to resist distortion common to uneven cooling.
The starting parts will be Keyed Bricks, corners, ends, intersections, door and window frames, bottom starts and top ends. There will be future parts for floor/ceiling/roof, domes, and tubes. These need more development.
Phase I: Engineering and Specifications
Create working keyed brick products. Specify equipment and materials; assembly software, and an online purchasing systems that automatically feeds into production scheduling.
Engineering
Dale E. Van Cor,
President
Create working keyed brick products and specify production
Keyed Brick Software
- Engineer and 3D print models and cores
- Engineer and 3D print mold parts
Specifications for manufacturing software to receive online orders, add into production schedule, palletize/package and ship automatically.
Materials: What Works
Allison Flynn,
Industrial Chemist
Find what plastic composites and aggregates work
- Plastic composite binders: properties of code 1-6 recycled plastics
- Domestic aggregates – what people come in contact with, housing, sand, thermoset plastics, ground up consumer products
- Industrial aggregates - road beds and embankments
coal ash, mine tailings, ground up electronic parts
Equipment: Find the Expertise
Find what equipment is currently being used to mold recycled plastic parts
- Hot injection pressure molds, cores and brick case\
- Key threaded outer case is 20%, sorted plastics or new thermoset plastic Cores are 80% composite,
- Grinders, mixers, plastic injection equipment, mold system per part
Virtual Models: Find who is Doing it Now
Specifications for online virtual reality system that will assemble Keyed Brick structures
- Assemble components
- Bill of materials – quantities of each Keyed component
- Construction sequence – generate assembly video
Online Marketplace
Specifications for selling virtual structures that automatically place orders at the nearest Keynector
- Purchase the virtual modal design
- Bill of materials, construction sequence and cost
- Place order that is goes into manufacturing software
Phase II: Implement the Engineering
“Make it work, then make it work better”
Purchase and test equipment to create a unit
- Grinders, mixers, high pressure plastic injection, molds
- Switch out the mold systems for different parts
- Start with walls, corners, doors/windows, top/bottom molds
- Mold release is automated
- Fits into a container
Develop software
There are similar systems in use that will be modified
- Manufacturing
- Virtual
- Online sales
Build the expansion team
We are starting with Dale E. Van Cor as the president who’s focus is creating the future.
The CEO will make that future happen.
Phase III: Franchise the System
“Who wants to be a Keynector”
Sell units to individual/organizations for independent operations
- Where there is enough people to generate plastic waste stream to sustain a unit
- Where there is a large plastic waste disposal site
- Where there is a toxic coal ash or mine tailings dump
Funding and Investments
Steven Heintzelman,
Chief Financial Officer
Phase I: Engineer the delivery system. Currently in process
Funding: Over $200,000 personal investment of Dale E. Van Cor.
Patent is starting office action in US; pending in Canada, Europe (EPO) and Australia.
Phase II: Build the delivery system
Funding: Pre-sale of parts, gifts, grants and stock.
Pre-sale is a new type of crowd sourcing. A discounted credit of keyed components to be available from Phase II.
Stocks: preferred, participating with interest, non-voting stock.
Phase II is the creation of a business unit, equipment and software, that is to be packaged.
Phase III: Franchise the delivery system.
Funding: Stock, preferred, participating, interest, and voting rights.
Phase II stock would be upgraded with voting rights. We want this to become what it can be.
This is the scaling of the business by franchising the individual delivery system.