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Adam Gartenberg Verified account @AdamGartenberg · 1d

A top-level @anduriltech exec shared at dinner tonight that they use little to no automation in their manufacturing facilities because “automation today is incapable of adapting to low-volume and high complexity production lines”

There’s still such a gap between the automation dream and what is technically possible today.

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Const 🇺🇸🏭 Verified account @c0nst · 1d

per employee, sendcutsend does about $244k a year. protolabs $213k. the best job shops in gardner's survey $190k.

better, yes. nowhere near ten times better.

@fabworks_guy said fabworks went through the whole digital transformation and came out less efficient per headcount. what changed was the cash. "we are wildly more profitable thanks to better unit economics on parts, ie having good cashflow to buy capex."

i'd look at days to cash before i looked at headcount.

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