There’s no shortage of AI in manufacturing. There is, however, a shortage of AI that works when things get complicated—AI that can move the needle.

If you spend any time in industrial service environments, where assets go down and the fix is buried in five different systems and 4,000 pages of technical documentation, you already know this. The problems that actually cost real money and…

On an assembly line for household appliances, 10 operators assembled motors for downstream production. Demand was high, but output consistently fell short—and many motors failed final inspection, requiring weekend overtime to catch up.

Managers tried the usual fixes. Push the operators, tweak the workstations, reduce wasted motion. For a day or two, it looked like progress. But…

I hear it all the time: “Let’s boil this idea down.” That’s a huge communication mistake.

What people are trying to do by “boiling it down” is get rid of all the extraneous information surrounding their idea to find something crisp they can share with others. The hope is that the crisp idea will be exciting and compelling.

Given I’m Italian, let’s make rotini. No, not…