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It will be interesting to see if 3D printer tech will change this. Large warehouses full of 3D printers where you can scale up/down your production would be a
by danpat 13y ago
It will be interesting to see if 3D printer tech will change this.
Large warehouses full of 3D printers where you can scale up/down your production would be a fairly reasonable analog to AWS and what it provides.
- robomartin 13y agoWe are very far from that in most product categories. As an example, a CNC stamping machine can ingest sheets of aluminum and produce parts at an amazing rate. Spend a little money on a set of dies and you can produce parts faster than you can clap your hands. A similar situation exists in injection molding or die casting. 3D printing is neat but it is very slow, expensive, limited in materials and costly. Surely this will change with time. Still, it will be hard to compete with optimized processes where, as I said, you can produce parts faster than clapping your hands. Now, for micro markets where you need just a few of something? Yup, that probably works today.