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At a Die Casting Show, I Ran Into Someone Who Had Already Seen Our Data
IndustrialMind.ai wants to be the AI manufacturing engineer in every factory. Its edge is turning engineers’ know-how into agent workflows. How far it…
Oct 6
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Yuanwei Ma
Which Factory Jobs Will AI Take First? A Die Casting Story
The FPM Breakdown, episode 1: why decades-old process analytics is suddenly a business, and a ladder that predicts which AI tools land first.
Oct 6
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Yuanwei Ma
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September 2026
The Millennium Problem Was the Easy Part
Ten thousand agents did the heavy lifting. What they couldn’t do — pick the direction, judge what matters — is where the value is moving, in math and on…
Sep 29
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Yuanwei Ma
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I Saw This Startup Three Times at IMTS. Three Days After the Show, Its Eyes Sold for $500 Million
How a $314 camera gets to 1 mm, how a Paris startup ended up on FANUC’s stand, and what Cognex just bought.
Sep 24
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Yuanwei Ma
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Engineering the Map
The two axes that decide what gets automated are costs, not physics — and costs can be moved
Sep 22
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Yuanwei Ma
Amortize or Defer
My bet on where robot learning ends up — and the observations that would prove me wrong
Sep 15
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Yuanwei Ma
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Two Ledgers, One Price
Why your Chinese supplier’s quotes keep falling — and why the two of you explain it in completely different ways
Sep 8
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Yuanwei Ma
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The Shape of Organizations
Armies, assembly lines, and the one constraint AI agents actually change
Sep 1
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August 2026
MHS: Three Questions, One and a Half Answered
Anthropic just turned ‘can this machine be called by a program’ into a standard. The remaining question and a half is what the research preview actually…
Aug 28
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Yuanwei Ma
Is Manufacturing at Dusk or Dawn?
Physical AI has two storylines. One is still looking for a cell. The other is already rewiring the factory.
Aug 25
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Yuanwei Ma
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The Builder Cannot Be the Verifier
From DeepSeek Harness's design philosophy to why a robot's harness has to be harder than software's
Aug 16
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Yuanwei Ma
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The Physics of a Burr
Why the dirtiest job in the shop is still done by hand
Aug 12
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Yuanwei Ma
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