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Field notes from the floor.

Real manufacturing failures, dissected for what they teach. And honest readings of where industrial AI is heading — keynotes included.

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Physical AI

June 2026 · 6 min read

Prometheus: Bezos's $18B bet on the physical world — and what it means for Europe

Jeff Bezos has quietly raised around $18 billion for Prometheus — an AI built to design and manufacture physical things, from jet engines to drug compounds. Almost no one in Europe is talking about it. Here's why his bet, Siemens' answer with NVIDIA, and one very blunt line from Siemens' own CEO add up to a fight for the factory floor.

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AI development

June 2026 · 7 min read

GTC Taipei: the factory is the product now

At GTC Taipei, Jensen Huang stood in front of Taiwan's manufacturing leaders and described the AI factory as the next industrial asset class. For anyone who works on a plant floor, the most interesting message was in the supporting slides.

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Case study · Electronics manufacturing

May 2026 · 8 min read

The Note 7: what the hardest recall in electronics taught manufacturing

Samsung recalled the Galaxy Note 7 twice in 2016, once for its original battery and once for the replacement from a second supplier. Every cell involved had passed final test. The lessons Samsung drew from it changed battery manufacturing for the whole industry.

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Case study · GxP manufacturing

May 2026 · 8 min read

Sturgis, 2022: what it costs when the compliance record cannot keep up

One plant shutdown, one fragmented paper trail, and the United States ran short of infant formula for months. The Abbott Sturgis case is the strongest argument there is for compliance as a live record rather than a quarterly reconstruction.

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