Risk and Cost are the primary roadblocks to insertion of new structures technologies. The risk going through the design changes, tooling the part, fabricating the part and testing the part can prove too daunting a task. The results are of the effort are not known until it is too late to make another alteration or fix to a problem. The cost of a change can be substantial; the cost of design is a minor part, the major part of the cost in the tooling of the new part. Reconfigurable tooling systems will reduce cost, time, and risk.
