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What's a Diff Anyway?
When I was at Tesla, change was constant, but visibility into those changes was terribly manual. I was in a readiness meeting when a colleague, with some exasp…
AI in Manufacturing
When we hear "AI" today, we often think of LLMs Large Language Models like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini that are quickly becoming part of our daily lives.…
What is a Value Stream Anyway?
It's common to hear a term like this and dismiss it as empty business-speak: "We're going to leverage cross-functional synergies in our value chain to drive gr…
Everybody's got a plan...
Everybody's got a plan …until they get punched in the face. Mike Tyson and Jake Paul in my feed has my favorite quote at top of mind. True in a fight, also tru…
'Let 'Er Roll!!!' A Manufacturing Case Study
While there aren't any good manufacturing movies, this clip from "I Love Lucy" is pretty solid. <div style="display: flex; justify-content: center; margin: 20p…
Why Aren't There Any Manufacturing Movies?
Manufacturing. It seems straightforward – come up with an idea and design a product, hand it to a factory to build it, and then ship it to your customers and m…
Manufacturing is Harder Than it Needs to Be
When I was first studying manufacturing a professor asked a simple question: "What gets manufactured?" After the first few responses – cars, airplanes, machine…