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ManufacturingLabor + Machinery + Raw MaterialMachinofacturingMachinery + Raw Material

Manufacturing at the Speed of Software:

Cheap to get startedEasy to scale (Deploy code across servers / manufacturing boxes)Operating skills are commoditizedFast to iterate and deploy new modelsAbility to rapidly pivotCosts aligned with Cash flow

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Collider as replacement for Vacuum casting, HP for injection molding

NOPEBlow MoldingReaction Injection Molding3DP increases automationThermoforming3DP eats manufacturingRotation MoldingVacuum CastingInjection moldingLabor intensiveCompression MoldingDip molding7

3DP only impacts a small part of metal manufacture, but the parts are high value-add & high labor being removedEBM & SLM, DMLS often used to create parts that require several different manufacturing processes all-in-one

Labor intensive / hard to automatePanel BeatingNear term DisruptionMetal SpinningForgingSand Casting8

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Neri Oxman @ MIT. Tough technical challenge, but huge benefits as costs are largely in labor. 9

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Source: FIVETHIRTYEIGHT, FEDERAL RESERVE, BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

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Source: FIVETHIRTYEIGHT, FEDERAL RESERVE, BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

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Cheap to get startedEasy to scale (Deploy code across servers / manufacturing boxes)Operating skills are commoditizedFast to iterate and deploy new modelsAbility to rapidly pivotCosts aligned with Cash flow16

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It may be that MACHINESwill do the workthat makes lifepossibleand that HUMAN BEINGSwill do all the other thingsthat make lifepleasant and worthwhile.

Isaac Asimov

As prescient today as back thenAsimov Ventures invests in this vision21