[High-Tech] GURPS Industrial Economics (building on Low-Tech Companion 3)

[Michael Thayne]

Originally Posted by RogerBW

To generalise towards rules: the more of a thing you are planning to make, the more expensive the setup for the run will be, but the cheaper each item will be even accounting for its share of the setup cost. At one end you have the CNC rig and the 3d printer, somewhere in the middle the injection mould, at the other end the hardened-steel die.

How many products can be made by either injection mould or hardened-steel die? Isn't the former for plastic items and the latter for metal ones? (Pardon my ignorance if I'm wrong about that.)