> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Rhiana Whitson > Reference:: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-28/tools-engineering-pattern-making-manufacturing-industry/105134026 > Date:: 2025 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Economic value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft skills add value to other industries]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > The critical importance of pattern making craft to the broader industrial system. >"Even to make the simplest plastic component, you need to make a tool that you can then inject molten plastic into, or you need to make something out of metal, it's the same thing," explains Sam Ringwaldt, the co-founder and chief executive of Conry Tech. >"You're going to have to get stuff done overseas and then bring it in, and essentially become an assembly nation, rather than a manufacturing nation," Mr Ringwaldt says. >Australia ranks last in manufacturing self-sufficiency among the world's developed economies.