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• ok_dad 5y ago
  Manufacturing medical devices is way different than other things, there are specific requirements and stuff. I’m not going to go into too much detail here, but you can’t always increase production on demand, many times there are very real scaling limitations for these products. It’s not all profits and rainbows at these businesses, there is real hard work and time needed to build things at the level of quality necessary for medical devices, almost like space equipment. Scaling is usually less than linear, which means you get less product per worker if you try to do too much, and it takes months or years to build that extra capacity.