Robotics Design with Natural Intelligence
Movies like i-Robot, Terminator and the like have made an impression on the general public that a Robot is a humanoid form of “Artificial Intelligence” which can play football and have facial expressions, etc. This is all about good research and technology development but NOT specific to commercialization and deployment. The best analogy is research and technology developed for an F1 car. Not everything that works for an F1 car [...]
Why Manufacturing’s Not Cool
Finally we got an idea on why millennials and teenagers today don't think manufacturing is cool. Most teenagers don’t care as much about safety and reliability as they do about finding purpose and passion in their work. The younger generation strives for freedom, happiness, and the reassurance that their work is an asset to the larger world and is bettering their community. Read the full article here [...]
Seeing your way to better strategy
We work with may start-ups and one of the primary reasons many of them fail to take off is that they put Strategy as a low priority. "What's the point of a Strategy if the Proof of Concept doesn't work?" - that's a common mind-set. I always, ask back, "What's the strategy if the Proof of Concept works?" Leave the job of building a functioning prototype (the PoC) to [...]
Windshield Wipers More Accurate than Weather Radar for Monitoring Rainfall
Windshield Wipers are smarter than Weather Radars! You can just about imagine how the world is going to change with the Internet of Things (IoT). Welcome to Industrial Revolution 4.0 Read the full article here
What Makes a Great Manufacturing Leader?
1. building trust 2. having high expectations for their people and gives them the tools to meet those expectations 3. Inspiring passion 4. Having a strong entrepreneurial spirit 5. Being a change agent 6. Telling it like it is 7. Encouraging cross-functional teams 8. ‘Getting’ millennials and creating a culture around them 9. Seeing the competitive advantage in tech AND ... 10. is still an old-school, big-picture person [...]