i was watching How It’s made, and there was a dedicated machine for a particular part of the product something as little as a proprietary bottle cap. and it was a huge machine. Who got the time to sit and invent the machine for that little piece. think of the variety of such designs, so does that mean you need a different new machine for any other special design?
also machines that make machines like robot machines making robot machines.
In: 223
Tool and die manufacture! A lot of the time it’s a standard machine with custom tooling to make some specific things, like an injection molding machine that’s the same whether you’re making bottle caps or computer cases, just with a different mold. How much you have to make custom depends on how difficult the part is to manufacture, but engineers designing something for mass production will know that and generally try to design things that can use more off-the-shelf manufacturing equipment.
Latest Answers