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Essays from Airsup on manufacturing, industrial software and what has to be true before any of it reaches the Moon.
Introducing Airsup: AI that helps you debug your factory.Find bottlenecks, investigate failures and test production changes in simulation before touching the real line.
Airsup is helping RobotEverest take PEMBA to Everest.A humanoid designed to walk at eight thousand metres, and the record that keeps its parts, suppliers and tests in one place.
What the Moon looks like in 2050, and what had to be true first.A letter from a station that does not exist yet, and the unglamorous reason it might.AI makes physical industries 10x more productive, but only if you fix the process first.Which industries go first, which ones go last, and what has to be true in your operation before any of it pays.
How lean principles can be taken further with AI.Mass production scaled by adding. Lean got strong by removing. The next step is neither. It is a company that carries the discipline in the system itself, so a small team can act with the strength of a large one.
Manufacturing in the US is hard.The factory is not the unit of competition. The production ecosystem around it is.
