Oreck, a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners, sweepers, and other household cleaning appliances for use in hotels and homes, was already building fused deposition modelling (FDM) prototypes in its model shop; why couldn’t it create custom fixtures for use in the First Article inspection?
Comment: The UK is closer to deindustrialisation than reindustrialisation
"..have been years in the making" and are embedded in the actors - thus making it difficult for UK industry to move on and develop and apply...