Essentially, the Artificial Workforce allowed an engineer to design a part on CAD software and input the data into CAM equipment that could control the mixing of chemicals or the molding of parts from any number of different materials on different machines The system could also assemble and can, box, or shrink-warp the finished product The Artificial Workforce ran on complex circuitry and highly advanced software that allowed the machines to communicate with each other electronically, Thus, a product could be designed, manufactured, and packaged solely by computer no matter how intricate it was