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What you're essentially asking is, "how will industry work in an anarchist society?"
It's a very, very wide question, methinks - and a lot of the answer is going to depend on what it is you actually define as an anarchist society.
If you were to ask me how aspirin will be made in an anarchist society, the answer is simple - the same way we make aspirin now. But if you were to ask me how the raw materials needed for aspirin manufacture will be sourced in an anarchist society... well, now things start getting more interesting.
Aspirin is easy - thermo-nuclear weapons is difficult.
Serious question, how about making biological drug compounds like monoclonal antibodies?
The exact same factors apply.
Industries is built on top of other industries - for instance, producing monoclonal antibodies without someone supplying you with polyethylene glycol (which already requires a sophisticated production process and supply chain of it's own) is going to be difficult.
It's the relationship between the actors inside and inbetween these industries that should be the focus of anarchists - not their complexity.