But the cost of failure is much higher with physical machines in a production environment.
It seems realistic to want to prevent beginners from touching expensive machinery that they could break through incorrect use.
It seems realistic to want to prevent beginners from touching expensive machinery that they could break through incorrect use.
Based on my experience, equipment at Techshop is, on average, an order of magnitude or two cheaper and a decade or two older than what you'd see at a commercial manufacturer.
Both of these are small machines. Larger machines can easily be over 100,000.00
You want your large machines to always be working, that means you want someone who can set it up right and fast. That takes experience.