Weekly Digest

Speeding up Material Movement Across "Zero Distance"

This week: GE Appliances’ “zero distance” approach, OPPO’s flagship smartphone factory, evolution of AI in engineering, injection molding chat…

Nov 16 •

Reciprocating Perspectives on Manufacturing Technology

This week: Hyundai Metaplant, Real-World AI for Manufacturing, AI-Powered Pallet Jack, titanium idiot index, heating up electron transfer reactions…

Nov 9 •

Heavy Press for Domestic Manufacturing

This week: vibe coding manufacturing apps (paid), heavy press program, novel lithography and EUV masks, autonomous control AI agents for acid gas…

Nov 2 •

Factory Founders Mode: the Team Productivity Model

This week: Architecture for manufacturing systems (paid), team productivity model, Texas REEs, design innovation, history of PI, xLSTM Scaling Laws…

Oct 26 •

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…

Oct 19 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

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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