Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How Microfactories Could Be the Manufacturing Strategy of the Future | WSJ" video.

  1. Consumer demand wants to trend towards local customized builds instead of the offshored mass produced stuff that's been available. An agile microfactory would fill the niche between 3D printers and a full-sized town-dominating manufacturing plant.
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  2. It develops the concept for further deployment in countries without the cheap flat land, masses of laborers, or open trade policies that would support a full-sized investment. For S'pore it also gives a non-zero manufacturing capacity in case a COVID or some other event locks down movement in and out of the island again.
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  3. It provides local manufacturing capability when access to farther full-sized factories gets disrupted for whatever reason. In the meantime these make custom builds more practical to produce.
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