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“No, Felix! Not again! Over and over and over! We decide something one
meeting and then go over it again the next meeting and again the next. What a
waste!”
“What do you mean, Drew?” asks Felix, AllRoad’s customer service
manager.
“I think it’s important we get this right.”
“Well, Felix, if that’s the case, why don’t you come to the meetings?”
“Well, since you added me to the team, I’ve just missed a couple.”
“Right. Last week we met here for, oh, 2, maybe 3, hours, and we decided
to analyze our sales data to identify products that we could possibly produce
ourselves, using 3D printing.”
“But Drew, if we can’t afford a 3D printer or learn how to use it, what
difference does it make if there are parts that we could produce?”
“Felix! We discussed that last week and we think we can, but we won’t
know for sure until we’ve identified the products we might want to produce. We
can’t assess 3D costs until we know what we might print, er, manufacture.”