Easily automated on simple milling machines - lower setup costs and less training.
Cloning was certainly within the allowable technology, if they wanted to spend the massive setup costs.
This is intended to compensate the supplier for his fixed setup cost.
The setup costs are higher than for conventional systems, but the difference is usually returned in energy savings in 3 to 10 years.
With the setup costs, it could have been a disaster.
In order to reduce setup cost per unit we must run large batches.
Running small batches puts in danger the need to reduce setup cost per unit.
Cloud services would allow research groups to buy that £5 of computer time without large setup costs.
Think about setup costs - Japan is notorious for this.
The setup cost is constant and does not act upon the batch quantity.