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Manufacturing's Six Seven: 6S and the Seven Wastes
This week: making infinitely long objects, capturing CO2 from moving vehicles, AI spot welding inspection, open AI-native robotics, parachute full of…
12 hrs ago
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David Rogers
Spotting a Way to Manufacture Efficiently
This week: Shenzhen speed run (paid), humanoid hands, metals feedstock, laser DED process control, 3D print multiplexing nozzle tech, battery dendrites…
Oct 12
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David Rogers
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Plugging in AI Agent Factories
This week: Electricity demand and grid impacts of AI data centers (paid), manufacturing month, multi-modal robot learning the robobusiness, quest for a…
Oct 5
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David Rogers
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September 2025
Distributed Small AI Factory Towns
This week: Hard-Tech Wind-Down (paid), peer-to-peer manufacturing marketplaces, growing diamonds, real-time inventory visibility, AI agents into the…
Sep 28
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David Rogers
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Cookie Cutter Physical AI
This week: predictive maintenance ROI (paid), train a whole-body control foundation model, cardboard boxpocalypse, dry electrode printing, generative…
Sep 21
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David Rogers
3
The Entropy of the Shop Floor
This week: napkin math on shop multiples (paid), self-improvement flywheel for general-purpose robots if we can solve the hand, minimize energy…
Sep 14
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David Rogers
5
Inside the Best of Us Manufacturing
This week: industrial funding models (paid), K.I.S.S, America's Best, EV price wars, robotaxi value chains, titanium business model, native ERP AI…
Sep 7
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David Rogers
5
August 2025
Brick by Brick AI Assembly
This week: platform economics (paid), AI + human systems, building cars with agentic AI, DHL’s AI upgrade, new dataset for 3D printing quality, battery…
Aug 31
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David Rogers
3
The Systems That Make or Break Manufacturing
This week: Scaling assembly manufacturing, 3D Print Injection Molds, Cheap Fast Chips in the USA, CFD with Modular Surrogates, Snapmaker U1, Robotaxi…
Aug 24
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David Rogers
9
No Fatigue in Industrial AI Agents
This week: AI agents sequence machine processes, create fatigue models, embody intelligent humanoids, and copilot CNC machines. Manufacturing history…
Aug 17
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David Rogers
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Real-Time Measurement for Smarter Manufacturing Substitutions
This week: Raw metal to road-ready every 67 seconds, 50 Years of DCS, sole manufacturing focus, chronoamperometry and SensorLM, WAIC 2025 review, and…
Aug 10
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David Rogers
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Raw Workflow to Finished Good
This week: Alaska fish processing, AI in AM into CAD, virtual prototyping of AI-as-a-Service, classification of manufacturing processes and finished…
Aug 3
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David Rogers
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