Many jewelry manufacturers (especially smaller shops) feel that the solution to the problems that they experience in the manufacturing processes can be best solved by upgrading their equipment. To some extent this is true. Certainly, many of the more sophisticated machines available today control many variables more precisely than the more primitive equipment. However, most problems can be solved with little or no expenditures for equipment and supplies, just by changing techniques or using additional techniques. Should it prove appropriate to upgrade equipment, usually the smaller, less expensive and yes, less sophisticated, equipment is better suited to most shop's needs. Knowledge, though inexpensive to obtain, is much more valuable than equipment.

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