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> for physical products, drafting/design is nearly free (capex & opex of the assembly phase dominates) It really depends on the industry. It's particularly bad
by Leherenn 6y ago
> for physical products, drafting/design is nearly free (capex & opex of the assembly phase dominates)
It really depends on the industry. It's particularly bad in heavily regulated industries (pharma, aerospace, ...). On the other hand, creating a blog is probably the equivalent of designing a new t-shirt.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoFair enough. I haven't considered regulatory impact. On top of that, I wasn't thinking about pharma, or a lot of formulated products. That said, setting aside the regulatory burden, from the little insight into the internals of chemical processing I had, there may be larger costs in designing and tuning the "build pipeline" (all the coolers, valves, reactors, etc.) than in designing the formula itself. That's just a consequence of scaling up being expensive where your production involves manipulating matter.