Great points. The company I work with operates production thermoforming machines to produce plastic containers. Each machine produces over 12,000 units every si

Great points. The company I work with operates production thermoforming machines to produce plastic containers. Each machine produces over 12,000 units every single hour, 24 hours a day -- that's over 2 million every week, with only one or two labor hours per machine-hour. And our machines are not even that big or modern; if we were to replace them with new machines, we could easily scale to three times that much per machine-hour. Technologies such as this help us design a prototype to validate a product for a customer before building molds, but it would never be an actual production process. Not until it can produce three products per second while matching the low weights per part. Our tool room already is much smaller than it was twenty years ago, while producing more molds, thanks to the wonders of CNC machines.