Originally Posted By: crossedchisles
Gotta be 50% of the Hours..???(I would like to be corrected.....) cc/dt


It would appear that with technology now possibly/probably performing a significant portion of the work prior to the fine hand finishing, hourly savings of this magnitude might indeed be possible. Combine that with the possible outsourcing of some components to extremely inexpensive labor rate areas, and the cost savings in both hours and hourly rates reflected in the final product could produce an extremely wide cost of manufacturing to selling price gap as compared to the time period of your involvment there.