{"id":832,"date":"2014-10-22T10:45:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/baur\/?p=214"},"modified":"2014-10-22T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:45:40","slug":"failable-and-scalable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/failable-and-scalable\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFailable and Scalable\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\"Economies of scale drive down the consumer price of mass-produced products and increase profits for a company. However,\r\n to earn back the upfront investments in design and production, companies must sell large volumes of the same product. \r\nOnly after a significant number of identical products are sold does a company begin to profit from its initial investment.\"\r\n<a title='Lipson, Kurman (2013). Fabricated : The New World of 3D Printing.' id='zotpress-2d965de21f44daa086129e18ff51e39c' class='zp-ZotpressInText' href='http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/baur\/2014\/10\/22\/214\/#zp-214-E4A5EVKK'>(Lipson, Kurman, 2013, 26)<\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Economies of scale drive down the consumer price of mass-produced products and increase profits for a company. However, to earn back the upfront investments in design and production, companies must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}