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Frank Drackman (in ) said:

| Thanks for posting. It will be interesting to see what you are
| doing with the ShopBot in the future. Can you share your proces
| for deciding that a ShopBot was needed/wanted in your shop?

Frank...

In a nutshell, I had a wild urge to mass-produce solar heating panels
and high-end woodworking benches - and decided that the 'Bot offered a
number of advantages:

[1] CAD/CAM/CNC allow extremely rapid prototyping.
[2] I could achieve consistantly higher quality than with other
methods.
[3] Labor costs are minimized.
[4] I could capitalize on math/software/control system experience.
[5] CNC production capacity is wonderfully scalable.

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html