New Manufacturing Partnership Lets You Quickly Move from Small-Batch to Mass Production

Let's say you designed and have started selling some 3D-printed widget, in small batches, Etsy-scale. But suddenly demand for your object goes off the charts, and you need to move into mass production, quickly; Walmart puts in an order and sets a deadline, and if you can't meet it, your opportunity evaporates. What do you do? Fictiv, the company that Forbes called "The AirBNB of manufacturing," has teamed up with Jabil, itself a large manufacturing services company (100 plants in 28...