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With the advancement of ‘autofab’, sophisticated machines will be capable of rearranging molecular structures. These rearranged molecular structures could generate any object from them. Plastic milk jugs and a punctured car tube could be molecularly rearranged to get a new table lamp or any other object.

Soon the scale of autofab will come down to nanostructure level. Then the size of newly manufactured instrument will be very small. It will be possible to reconstruct permitted tissues and even reversal of matured tissue decay will be done.

In this way the expansion of human lifespan will continue. With this advancement, the health of old people will improve. People will get an opportunity to gain the ability to painlessly redesign their bodies.

With ‘autofab technology’ the product will be well-designed according to the expectation of customers. The automated methods of inspection and assembly will improve the quality and durability of products. Thus, produced things will last longer than earlier ones. Therefore, there will be decline in need for replacement.

In mass production (which is in force today) things are produced keeping in view ‘general utility norms’. In ‘autofab’ things will be produced according to the expectation, need and individual utility norms. So mass production units will lose their economic advantages.

Huge centralised factories will be replaced by smaller and community based production units. In this case, customers will be served better by a local owner and operator of a manufacturing shop. Thus, the factories will become decentralised and the naturally talented village craft workers will be back with a bang.

The customer is called a co-constructor because he himself has designed the product as per his requirement. He will also take part in its development and production process. Thus, he will be a part of the entire production (construction) process, therefore he is called a co-constructor.

With the introduction of ‘autofab’, the customers will now not throw away their useless or overused things or replace them with new ones. Instead they will return them and get back new models fabricated from that old stuff. There will be recycling of materials in new ways. This will be a great compensation to environment. Therefore, there will now be less pollution and more new expected production.

(1) In ‘Autofab’ manufacturers can invite Customers to share designing, development and production process with them and it would lead to unexpected new products. This will create opportunities for manufacturers to satisfy the unique needs of their customers.

(2) In ‘Autofab’, new product liability, other risks and patent rights may be shared with the customers because the things will be produced according to the suggestions and requirements of the customers.

Highly improved autofab technology will perhaps be able to meet all our material desires. The freedom resulting from this achievement will bring about a golden age of art, music and scientific discovery. While taking advantage of this technology, we should be aware that we should make meaningful use of this technology for ourselves.

‘Autofab’ industry deals with a set of technologies that automate the process for building three dimensional solid objects from raw materials. This industry uses solidification of polymers, powders and other raw materials, guided by designs drawn on ordinary computers.

This industry manipulates the properties of matter for fabrication. Autofab creates opportunities for manufactures to satisfy the unique needs of customers.

The portmanteau word ‘autofab’ is formed by joining two words – ‘automated’ and ‘fabrication’. ‘Autofab’ is a set of technologies that automate the process for building three dimensional solid objects from raw materials.

Suppose one is not happy with any model of the cars in the showroom, in such case, he can work on a computer and create his dream car on the screen. Next week he gets delivery of a car fabricated exactly like his design. This process is known as automated fabrication. It is also known as ‘computerised fabrication’.

(1) Highly improved autofab technology will be able to meet all our material desires. This achievement will result into bringing about freedom and wide doors will open for a golden age of art music and scientific discovery.

(2) The open question for ‘Autofab Technology’ is: Whether people want such freedom and will rejoice in it or not because in life, the greatest satisfaction comes not from getting what one wants, but from working for it.