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.
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The “proprietary” part is often not the whole machine. Most manufacturing machines share 75-95% functional commonality with their cousins in the same type of manufacture. It’s the last 5-25% of the process that makes a machine ‘proprietary’.
Using the example of bottle caps, most modern bottle cap making machines are identical in terms of gross function (obviously metal cap machines and plastic cap machines are different but we’re talking about equivalent machines between competing brands), it is the specific dimensions of the finished product that are different. Heck I’m pretty sure even Pepsi and Coke stopped using different thread counts for their plastic bottles in the mid-2000s.
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