{"id":1040,"date":"2021-03-09T18:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2021-03-09T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:35:27","slug":"maketory-grows-new-manufacturing-companies-in-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/general\/maketory-grows-new-manufacturing-companies-in-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"Maketory Grows New Manufacturing Companies in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s\nexciting to have a new Maker Space in southern California. Maketory<\/a> is an industrial coworking facility that provides flexible\nfabrication and manufacturing in a 26,000 sq. ft. building in the Miramar\/Mira\nMesa area of San Diego, California.  Since\nopening in December 2019, Maketory has become a hub of creativity and\ninnovation for inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs as the only Maker Space\nsouth of Carlsbad in north San Diego County. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nvisited Maketory on February 11th<\/sup> and was given a tour by Manager\nShaun Kain.  He said that they offer\nprivate office suites, private work studios, on-site storage for materials and\nsupplies, free Wi-Fi and free parking. The ground floor of the facility\ncontains a wood shop, metal shop, welding area, prototype\/assembly area, 34\nprivate work studios, and a blacksmith shop outside the back of the\nbuilding.  The second floor has a small\nand large conference room, an open space for meetings or training sessions, and\nprivate offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nwood shop contains the following equipment: a 4\u2019 X 8\u2019 3-axis router, bandsaw,\ntable, scroll, panel, and chop saws, lathes, drill presses, wide belt sander,\ndisc, spindle and edge sanders, a 20\u201d planer and 12\u201d jointer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmetal shop has 10\u2019 X 6\u2019 Flow waterjet, MIG and TIG welders, belt and disk\ngrinders, manual lathe, manual and CNC mill, plate roller, shear, and tube\nbender, cold saw, band saw, and drill press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nprototyping\/ assembly area contains 150- and 80-watt lasers, 3D printers, and\nworkbenches. The blacksmith shop contains 110- and 135-ton pneumatic hammers,\n50-ton screw press, as well as forges, anvils and hammers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nwas also able to speak with Carlos Shteremberg, one of the founders of Maketory\nWhen I asked for background information to help understand why he established\nMaketory, he said, \u201cI was born in Mexico City and moved to San Diego in 1998\nand got a degree from USD in business and accounting. I worked in manufacturing\nand became president of Pico Digital, a communication company that provided\ndigital TV to hotels and apartments. We were a partner with Dish Network and\nhad a significant market share. The majority of our manufacturing was in San\nDiego, as well in Taiwan, Canada, and Mexico. The company was purchased in 2016\nby HIG Capital, a private equity firm, but I continued as president for a while.  Then, I looked for something to do next, and\nwe created Maketory, a facility that would be a place for coworking and small-scale\nmanufacturing while serving as a tech and industrial incubator for the San\nDiego community.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\nexplained, \u201cI learned that opening a new business is always more difficult than\nyou expect and takes more money than you expect.  So, you have to endure some rough times, and\nsome entrepreneurs give up. It\u2019s also hard to transition from working in an\nestablished business to starting a new business.  We wanted to create an environment where businesses\nand individuals can quickly achieve success with minimal investment. Not everyone\nis a software developer that can work out of a home office or a traditional\ncoworking space. There are a lot of individuals, small businesses, and\nentrepreneurs that have to do physical things so they need a physical operating\nspace that isn\u2019t cost prohibitive. Also, people don\u2019t want to be alone so a\nMaker Space creates a social atmosphere.\u201d \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nresponse to my question about funding to start Maketory, he said, \u201cWe are\ntotally self-funded as a for-profit corporation when most Maker Spaces have a\nnon-profit sponsor.  Our lowest\nmembership is $249\/month for using all of the shop space.  Private work studios and offices start at\n$300\/month.  We require a commitment of\none year for a membership agreement because we want to develop a commitment of\nrespect for our facility and equipment. We have a professional staff of managers\nand instructors for the classes we provide. At Maketory you to go as fast as\nyou want. We have some of our members that have been able to make products in\nonly a few weeks.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\nadded, \u201cLarger existing companies can benefit from using the facilities of\nMaker Space to develop prototypes for new products because there are many\ncompanies that subcontract out manufacturing services and don\u2019t have the\nin-house equipment to make a prototype.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nasked if they offered classes on how to use the equipment, and he said, \u201cYes, our\nMaketory Academy<\/a> provides classes\nfor operating every machine, as well as how to design, Lean manufacturing, and\nrobotics. Members have to pay separately for the classes they need, which range\nfrom $120 – $350, depending on the topic. We partner with LSSI and CMTC to help\nsome members get help on subsidizing the classes. Our Maketory Academy is an\naspect of our business that we see expanding into the future to service the San\nDiego community, including students, colleges, high schools, veterans, active\nmilitary. And local entrepreneurs. The Lean training is provided by LSSI,\nheaded up by Luis Socconini.\u201d  I told him\nthat I got my Lean certification from LSSI in 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nasked how they were affected by the COVID pandemic that put another Maker\nSpace, Vocademy, out of business in Riverside. \nHe said, \u201cWe had only been open three months, so it hurt to have to\nclose for a few weeks.  But it gave us\ntime to put the safety protocols required by the state in place before opening\nback up in May.  We now have about 160\nmembers. Most of our members stuck with us during the shutdown, unless they had\nto move out of town for a personal reason or job.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\ntold him that I\u2019ve been a board member for the San Diego Inventors Forum and\ngive an annual presentation on how to select the right processes and sources\nfor your new product. I offered to give the presentation in person for his\nmembers or record a video that could be watched by his members. He said that\nsounds like a good idea.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nconclusion, Maker Spaces are a good idea for any community that wants to\naccelerate the development of manufacturing businesses in their region. After\nvisiting Maker Spaces in several states, Maketory is one of a very few that have\nbeen started by an entrepreneur as a for-profit business. Most Make Spaces have\nhad an economic development agency, chamber of commerce, or community college\nas their sponsor.  Let\u2019s hope that more\nsuccessful entrepreneurs will follow the example of Carlos Shteremberg in the\nfuture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s exciting to have a new Maker Space in southern California. Maketory is an industrial coworking facility that provides flexible fabrication and manufacturing in a 26,000 sq. ft. building in the Miramar\/Mira Mesa area of San Diego, California.  Since opening in December 2019, Maketory has become a hub of creativity and innovation for inventors, innovators, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,233,281],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-american-manufacturing","tag-incubators","tag-makerspaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}