What is Exponential Industry?

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Exponential Industry is the premier source and mixed-media aggregator for the business culture of high-tech manufacturing, energy, and supply chains. We are building a thriving community of founders, engineers, operators, and capitalists who are accelerating innovation in the physical world.

Free subscribers receive a weekly digest published at 9am Eastern Time (ET) on Sundays. Paid subscribers will also receive additional articles going deep on a particular manufacturing process, company, or industry trend.

If you are new to Exponential Industry you can view some of our most popular content posted at the links below:

(Apr 12, 2026) Weekly Digest - Choosin’ Texas for Manufacturing Energy
(Mar 01, 2023) Electrifying the World: A Look at the Top Battery Plants Across the Globe
(Jan 11, 2023) Designing an Automotive Assembly Production Line with ChatGPT: Project Commissioning (NOTE: ChatGPT originally released on Nov 30, 2022)
(Jul 03, 2022) Mapped: An Interactive Journey of the Airbus A320 Supply Chain

Mission

Exponential Industry’s mission is to become the definitive hub for high-tech manufacturing, energy, and supply chain innovation. We curate the highest-quality mixed-media content through a vibrant global community of founders, engineers, leaders, and investors shaping the future of the physical world.

Tenets

Direct from the source - We bias to primary sources by synthesizing millions of company blogs, press releases, podcasts, deep-dive articles, social media posts, and videos directly from where they are originally published.
Credit and attribution - We prominently display the author(s) and publication to give credit where credit is due.
Straight to the point - Our weekly digest excerpts seek to answer what and why. We highlight the technology, value proposition, and results so each reader is briefed on a wide range of cross-discipline topics and is encouraged to dive deeper if the content is enticing to explore further.
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Why ‘Exponential’ Industry?

For most of the last 50 years, US manufacturing productivity, the increase of production of goods with relatively fewer inputs, has increased at an exponential rate. This phenomenon is prominent throughout the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, the period is commonly referred to as the Third Industrial Revolution. It was marked by the adoption of transformative technologies such as general-purpose computers, microelectronics (PLCs, microcontrollers, etc.), telecommunications, and robotics that brought high-level automation to industry. Following the Global Financial Crisis in 2010, manufacturing productivity within the US has leveled off. The Bureau of Labor Statistics and many others have studied this great stagnation in comprehensive detail. The way forward is uncertain, but there is hope that many emerging technologies will return us to these exponential productivity gains that go back to the First Industrial Revolution starting in the late 1700s.

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