But doesn't Magna build Chrysler's cars? ;-
Some more distant stuff.
The Fab Lab (Fabrication Laboratory) being developed by MIT is an advanced small-scale workshop for turning out all sorts of one-off parts, using, among other things, advanced laser cutting technology, rapid prototypers, CNC and PC board milling. You can't be me, I'm taken
i.e. Production of parts is so integrated into the final product that it's cheaper to buy a broken company than change the parts in production.
I worked with the people who set up the Fab Lab some years ago. No, it doesn't change what I wrote above. Producing one off parts is horrifically energy intensive. The same spectrum is at work.
