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by ned_at_codomain 653 days ago
That bit about auto-generating BOMs is awesome. Any chance you've thought about supporting the engineer with cost-saving recommendations?

I met a bunch of aerospace engineers a long time ago -- thinking about working on a software product in contract manufacturing or PDM -- and a common theme was the struggle to optimize the design for cost of manufacture.

Seems like something you guys are thinking about if focused on manufacturability.

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> Any chance you've thought about supporting the engineer with cost-saving recommendations?

? As someone said: the most expensive is the microcontroller. If you remove it, you save a lot of costs.

Ha, we had similar thoughts. It is a path we want to go down eventually, but one step at a time :)