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Thoughts, observations and lessons from manufacturing, software, technology and building products.
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Manufacturing · Physical AI · Software
Envisioning Headless Software: How Physical AI Could Transform the Manufacturing Shop Floor
From natural communication to screens—and towards headless software, industrial connectivity and interaction that fits the shop floor.
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SME · AI · Manufacturing
Before You Invest in AI, How Well Do You Know Your Factory?
Before choosing AI, ask how well the business understands the shop floor—knowledge, numbers, and whether technology follows the problem.
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Manufacturing
Pillar 03 · The Resilient Factory
When disruption happens, can your factory continue, recover and learn? Dependencies, usable alternatives and recovery as a business decision.
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Manufacturing
Where should your factory invest next in digital transformation?
Automation, connectivity, software and AI are all on the table. The useful question is what this factory should fund first.
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Manufacturing
Pillar 02 · The Hidden Economics of Manufacturing
Hidden WIP, rework and the hidden factory—the costs that never appear clearly in the accounts, and the capacity they steal.
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Industrial IoT
MQTT in manufacturing
MQTT is a useful protocol on the shop floor, but only when the data, the machines and the operational questions are clear first.
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Manufacturing
Pillar 01 · The Responsive Factory
When the plan changes, how quickly can your factory change with it? Efficiency, responsiveness, and the five dimensions that connect them.
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Software Architecture
Modernization without losing the business logic
Legacy systems often hold years of operational knowledge. The work is to modernize the architecture without throwing that knowledge away.
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Manufacturing
Digital transformation starts with the process, not the software
Factories struggle with digital transformation when software arrives before processes are understood—not when they pick the wrong tool alone.
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DSMRK
The Journey Behind DSMRK
From a 2004 blog to Bevywise and back—why DSMRK returns to share practical knowledge where digital manufacturing and software technology meet.
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