Every industry filled with expensive, hard-to-find, hard-to-hire, hard-to-evaluate, hard-to-train creative or technical employees fantasizes about finding a tool or process or methodology that lets them move to factory work mentality. But... doing design (or software development, or medicine research, or... you name it...) isn't exactly the same thing as taking roughly machined parts and then hand-fitting them that can be replaced by a 3D printer or a CNC machine or whatever. It just does NOT work that way, it's pure fantasy, but the people selling those tools, processes, and methodologies sure love to cash in on that fantasy.

J.Ja