Objectives:

1. Sustainable Development
2. Poverty Eradication
3. Employment

Introduction:

The Patent Pending Mobile Factory and System of Mr. Pieter van Wyk, is a Sustainable, mass employment scheme intended to break the back of poverty and unemployment. Containers or Mobile Factories are loaded and equipped with work from abroad, cities, factories, farms, railway stations, harbours, air ports, etc, and are transported to any location including small towns and rural areas where jobs are in great need.

In Southern Africa 30 to 50 percent of people are unemployed. The Mobile Factory Initiative is a great opportunity for governments, organisations, and undertakings from all sectors in the industry to partake in Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication.

The SAMFI is a non-political, non-racial initiative and includes all population groups in Southern Africa. Partners, Investors, and Supporters in the SAMFI can share in the pleasure of contributing to a well needed and appreciated project. All involved can rest assure that no corruption, manipulation, unfairness, illegal practices, etc, will be tolerated.

In the system, a factory and it's structures are taken to the people where they can receive training and work in, from, from in, or from out of the container, mobile factory or transportable structure.

The factory can contain products, material, tools, machinery, etc. for the workers to process whatever is expected. Once the work to be done is complete, more work can be added or, the full factory can be exchanged with another factory.

In this manner, a lot of work can be distributed to less-privileged communities or where jobs are needed most. The mobile factory initiative has many advantages for the worker as well as for the work provider including: poverty relief, employment, training, education, maintaining of family structures, transport infrastructure, low cost manufacturing, no need to purchase tools and machines, improvement of community facilities and standards, distribution of food and other important products and materials, developing people's skills, "A Better South Africa for All".

Operation:

Mr. Pieter van Wyk has spent much time, research, and effort in planning a sustainable operation. The administration of such a factory should be as simple as possible for the most cost effective and sustainable process possible. The system has to be viable. Workers have to be educated to understand that nothing is for free and nothing should be taken for granted. It is in the interest of everybody involved to co-operate in order for the project to remain sustainable.

A factory can process goods like material, or manufacture products or parts thereof. Work assigned to the mobile factory by another factory, organisation, or person, should have no strings attached. The material, instructions, and in some cases machinery and tools, are provided by the work provider requiring the work to be done. The work provider later receives the processed goods back.

Workers are trained to process the material to the provided instructions. Workers should be paid on a daily basis. The suggested operation allows for maximum flexibility and is the least complicated. The system and infrastructure lends itself to the implementation of certain services independent from the Mobile Factory System including: Medical aid can be provided, food supplies can be distributed, education, training, and other materials can be provided and distributed.

Factories:

Factories will focus on practical labour-intensive products required by the market. Examples of such possible products suitable for mobile factories are:
Agricultural product processing: Products produced by various different agricultural undertakings like small holds or farms, can be processed into various forms or products. The agricultural products can be obtained directly from the area. Processed and packed products can be delivered to the market, ready to be sold in shops.
Wire Loom works: Wire loom manufacturing for various industries like vehicle looms, computer looms, etc. is a simple and easy undertaking. Thousands of different looms can be manufactured.
Metal works: Various simple metal objects like hooks, covers, etc. can be bent, processed, or manufactured.
Plastic works: Various simple manual processes can be undertaken like the removal of small scraps from objects, assembly, painting of toys, etc.
Wood works: Various artistic and other objects can be made like door knobs, kitchenware, toys, painting of wooden objects, etc.
Assembly lines: Many different parts can be partly or fully assembled like household equipment, toys, clothes, etc.
Book binders: Hand-made books can be a good seller. Books and other documents can be professionally bound.
Clothes: New clothes can be manufactured. Second-hand clothes can be processed.
Disassemble plants: Various products can be disassembled for re-use.
Sorting: Various products can be sorted into different sizes and qualities.
Hand work: Rounding off for final touch to various products.
Buffing: Metal and other products to be buffed.
Painting: Artistic painting of objects like toys, paintings, clothes, etc.
Packing: Many products otherwise packed by machines, can be packed more refined and niftier by hand.
Machine: Many different machine work, hand and automatic, can be operated in a mobile factory.
Other: Many, many other undertakings can be introduced and participate in the system.

Factory Circulation:

While workers in different areas are working on the different mobile factories, a building team can acquire work from factories, harbours, railway stations, warehouses, private persons, etc. and equip the factories with tools, equipment, products and materials. Once a factory's work is complete, it can be supplied with new stock or, the factory can be replaced by another.

Employment:

The SAMFI will be a sustainable operation in employing thousands to millions of people in Southern Africa alone. In the SAMFI, new mobile factories can be implemented and become operational in a very short time. Negotiations to supply work to the SAMFI can be undertaken with thousands of existing undertakings abroad, in cities, and large towns. A new factory may start with little work, travelling not too far, and employing only a few people. As work load increases, the number of people employed by the mobile factory will also increase.

Disabled People:

Since the job is taken to the people, this is an ideal opportunity to also employ people who would otherwise never have had any opportunity to get education, work and earn a living.

Community Participation:

As the project must be feasible, and as production and profits increase, the system can invest funds back into the community in various ways like improvement and maintenance of local and public facilities, supporting local initiatives, funding of local projects, etc.

Import and Export:

Countries like the USA, UK, and Europe can learn about the very cost effective manufacturing processes and invest or, ship products and material to be processed and manufactured. The SAMFI and it's Mobile factories can operate from different cities in all Southern African countries. The system can also be extended to anywhere in the world.

Payment:

Payment of earnings should be made to workers on a daily basis in order to keep the system secure, safe, and simple. This can also accelerate immediate poverty relief.

Poverty Relief:

Food can be used and distributed to subsidise payments in certain areas. If it is practical to implement, lunch can be provided by the system to it's workers in some or all areas.

Education:

A professional education, development, assessment, and competency learning service is an important service to be implemented.

Safety:

Factories, it's tools, and machines, must maintain very high safety standards. Training and education in safety matters, safety matters regarding the work done, and other possible measures will be implemented in order to prevent accidents and injuries. All factories must be equipped with the basic necessary first aid equipment required.

Security:

Because factories are mobile, they can be removed from areas in order to prevent burglaries, vandalism, exposure to elements of nature, etc. Factories can be transported and kept into a secure area during nights, over weekends, and other times when no work is done. Since salaries are paid as daily wages, the risk and impact of factory or personnel robberies are much reduced.

Economical Sustainability:

Research has shown that the cost of transporting a mobile factory to a specific area is much more cost effective than transporting  people from all over to one location like the case with a small fixed factory. The cost of transport, accidents, different risks, time, etc, are saved. The additional overheads of fixed factories like rent, security, parking, etc. are also saved. The system is so flexible and versatile that almost anything can be manufactured or processed anywhere.

Win-Win:

Mr. Pieter van Wyk, with the SAMFI, introduces a most needed system where every party wins. The much needed job creation system will reduce poverty in many different areas and will have a positive impact everywhere. Factories and other undertakings will certainly be relieved from employment liabilities and save on labour costs and other expenses to some extent.

Investment Opportunities and Partnerships:

All legal and corruption-free Investments and Partnerships will be considered. One such partnership is formed with the SAADT (Southern African Agricultural Development Trust) that forms an alliance with all African countries South of the Equator. The SAADT will ensure honest, corruption-free agricultural work to the SAMFI (Southern African Mobile Factory Initiative).

Management:

Management, Investors and Partners will all participate on different levels of management and decision making in working towards the goals of the undertaking of making profits, employing people, educating people, fighting poverty, fighting hunger, protecting nature and the environment, and in working towards a system free from crime, corruption, manipulation, racism, unjustness, and unfairness. A Better South Africa for All.



Contact:

SAMFI (Southern African Mobile Factory Initiative)
Mr. Pieter van Wyk can be contacted by the following:

South Africa  Tel: 011 - 794 2750
                     Fax: 011 - 794 2749
                     Cell: 072 1484 399

International  Tel: +2711 - 794 2750
                     Fax: +2711 - 794 2749

                     Email:  samfi@icon.co.za

                     Internet:  http://www.icon.co.za/~modeltec/samfi/