> In construction, you hire a general contractor. Why is there no manufacturing equivalent of a general contractor? There are design companies who do exactly t

> In construction, you hire a general contractor. Why is there no manufacturing equivalent of a general contractor? There are design companies who do exactly this. You can go to them with a very generic problem like “design our fall shoe collection” or a very specific one “this bearing in this gizmo is too noisy, find a better one”. They can cost an arm and a leg but they get the job done.