Looking for new markets for existing products and having the engineering capability to work with customers on design and manufacturing process is essential.

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Key to success will be the democratization of the biological design and manufacturing process, breaking open the field to those outside the biological sciences.

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The design, code-named Shanghai, is effectively a "shrink" of its earlier design to a manufacturing process that will yield faster, more power efficient chips.

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Again, the beauty of the design and the ingenuity of the manufacturing process take our attention away from the human element that goes into their fabrication.

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Starck's influence is evident from the complex design concept to the hands-on manufacturing process.

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Called VaporMg, the case is melted down in the manufacturing process and then moulded to the details needed for the design.

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You actually have to spend a lot of work in the design, all the way through to the manufacturing process, knowing where you are going to manufacture.

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Once a design is set, different bits of the manufacturing process are tried out on computer: a virtual pipe-bending machine, for instance, makes sure that the fuel lines which snake their way through the airframe can be created without wrapping themselves around the machine and bringing it to a halt.

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The objective is a biological design process that enables point-of-use, on-demand, mass-customization biological manufacturing.

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