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Peter Bigelow

Growth at all costs usually costs too much.

Psst! Hey you! Yeah, you over there … EMS guy. Don’t turn around and ignore me just because I’m a shadow of what I used to be…. I wanna help.

Read more: When ‘Scaling Up’ Leads to ‘Belly Up’
 Peter Bigelow
Print and money: How the West’s inflexibility costs us all.

Some things our industry does are simply extraordinary!

Read more: Why ‘No Change’ Adds Up to a Fortune

Could 3-D printers undo decades of frame-up circuit board assembly?

Ever since Henry Ford invented the assembly line, automobiles were assembled by first taking a frame, or chassis, and pulling it down a long line while workers bolted pieces and parts onto it until at the end – voilà! – you had an automobile.

Read more: The ‘Big’ Change

Could 3-D printers undo decades of frame-up circuit board assembly?

Ever since Henry Ford invented the assembly line, automobiles were assembled by first taking a frame, or chassis, and pulling it down a long line while workers bolted pieces and parts onto it until at the end – voilà! – you had an automobile.

Read more: The ‘Big’ Change

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