Use cases
What R9lab is for
Section titled “What R9lab is for”R9lab documents real products as they are taken apart: product identity, component hierarchy, photos, measurements, material notes, and uncertainty in one record.
The main use case is research data collection for durable goods, with enough structure for later comparison and still practical on a lab bench or in a repair workspace.
Typical contributors include:
- repairers and refurbishers
- manual dismantlers and recyclers
- researchers and lab assistants
- citizen scientists
What R9lab is not
Section titled “What R9lab is not”R9lab is not:
- a general-purpose product lifecycle management system
- a mass-scale crowdsourcing platform
- a fully automated computer-vision pipeline
- a highly elastic cloud-native platform
The narrow scope keeps the platform small enough for a small research team to run.