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AI in Manufacturing: What Worked and What Did Not

Posted on May 29, 2025 by flybrand1976

With our small business we’ve used premium subscription services to several of the current top AI platforms to see what kind of impact we could have. With less than $10 million in revenue and ~25 employees, this was an opportunity … Continue reading →

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Beyond Bottlenecks: Using Goldratt’s The Goal to Guide AI in Manufacturing

Posted on May 27, 2025 by flybrand1976

Industrial AI has some amazing claims and lackluster performance. If we use AI as a plot device in manufacturing’s most well known novel – Goldratt’s The Goal – it helps us see where the hype cycle is too far gone, … Continue reading →

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Scaling in Europe: An easy (8 year) plan

Posted on September 7, 2016 by flybrand1976

Disclaimer:  We sell industrial equipment, not software.  Also, we were spun out of a Czech university, so it wasn’t a ‘start-from-nothing’ type startup. We scaled a startup out of Europe, specifically – out of the Czech Republic.  Our market is … Continue reading →

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Recruiting and HR: Facets of a Job

Posted on September 6, 2016 by flybrand1976

We’ve had good success in recruiting and building a talented team.  As part of that our job descriptions became much clearer in some ways, and less clear in others.  We’ve also observed that our best candidates and most successful hires … Continue reading →

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Interesting Article Themes

Posted on November 16, 2013 by flybrand1976

Certain quantitative market and population concepts pop up frequently. Peak X 2013, June – Initial blog post 2013, July – Peak Printer blog post 2013, October – Peak cable & car blog post 2013, October – Article on how we … Continue reading →

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