This is big news. I have an MSC book on my desk and it is HUGE! It is about the size of the SPI catolog x 20 (big book with really thin pages).
This is exciting.
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Originally posted by M. Krass
...it seems like if it were all available to teams in unlimited quantities, that level-playing field notion would start to slip away.
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Good point, but there is another way to look at that.
Sure, if we can buy anything we want out of this book (which I doubt), the bigger teams will be able to bug more stuff than the teams with less money. However, now both of these teams at least have the opportunity to buy the part, where before the bigger team used other resources (mainly engineering and fabrication expertise) to create the part they needed.
For example... I see that MSC sells SMC-brand pneumatic grippers. Pneumatic grippers are pretty expensive ($200+). In the past, if a team wanted a gripper, then they had to design it. Now they can buy one (a limited design, but it is there). The team with more resources would end up designing and fabricating one while a team without the resources would just do without.
I'm not sure... but this change may actually even the playing field more.
We shall see... I really don't know right now.
Andy B.