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Basically, 1) bringing down the cost of CNC machined parts down to their marginal cost through automation, 2) reducing that marginal cost through higher machine utilisation rates, and 3) reducing turn around times and accuracy of parts to clients.

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ProtoLabs is already successful in this space. I wonder what competitive advantage CloudNC has?

They are trying to automate the g-code generation that controls the CNC machine. At the moment a human operator uses an intermediary piece of software to create that.

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