Shaul Cohen argues that companies are sitting on untapped industry data that, combined with 3D modeling and automated manufacturing, could enable mass-produced custom products. The result: tailored goods made at scale, shifting how things get built.
There is huge data in the industry that is not being used at all, only in islands of specific companies. But the data is going to be critical because when we went from tailoring, that you went to the tailor and you got your, your clothes done specially to you, to a mass production that we try to do something that will fit everyone. Now I think that the technologies will help us get a combination of both, to customize something for the consumer but still in a mass production way. So all the technologies, whether it is data, 3D, and automatic manufacturing, all of those will start merging and bring us to a very, very different place than where we are now.
