Manufacturing in space

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Omar E. Vega"
>
> Hi,
>
> I have always wonder how the products of mass consumption will be
> produced in space. Today, from TV and chairs to cars and lamps,
all
> are made by mass production in huge factories with large machines
> and low payed labour costs.
>
> In the future, in stations around Jupiter, for example, it will be
> very expensive to send them containers of goods made in China, so
> they'll have to manufacture themselves.
>
> The question is how to produce those items in low scale and high
> quality, directly in Space. Flexible manufacturing? New robotics?
> Low scale authomatic production?
>
> Any clue?
>
> Omar Vega
>
I would suspect that the new computer milling programs and equipment
will be really put to the test - and you would have a lot of storage
of a run to make it worthwhile. - good thing that room for storage
is not a real big problem - lots of room to put a container in space
and warehouses will be born lol