Common Parts
A framework for digital spare parts.
Common Parts defines how spare parts are structured, published, and distributed digitally.
About
What is Common Parts?
Repairing an object requires the right part. Digital manufacturing makes local, on-demand production of spare parts possible — but no shared standard exists for how those parts are described, published, or distributed.
Common Parts specifies that standard. It defines how spare parts are structured in a registry and how they are attributed to their authors.
Common Parts Access is the first platform built on this framework. It is an open registry where spare parts can be published, discovered, and accessed.
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Registry
Common Parts Access
An open platform for publishing and accessing digital spare parts. Parts are structured with standardized metadata and attributed to their original authors.
How it works
How it works.
01 — Search
Your appliance
By brand, product name or model number, as printed on the appliance's rating plate.
02 — Check
The reports
For each part, print reports tell you whether it fits your appliance.
03 — Print
The part
Get the file and print it, at home or at a fablab.
Contribute
Thirty seconds is enough.
The index is only as good as its reports. There are three ways to take part, from the simplest to the most involved.
No result for your appliance? The search is recorded, and you can post a public request. Requests show designers which parts are missing.
Running a Repair Café or a fablab, or publishing spare parts yourself? Get in touch.
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