First Principles Manufacturing
Yuanwei MaManufacturing AI researcher and engineer based in Novi, Michigan. I build quality inspection systems that bridge Chinese manufacturing expertise with American automation. Former academic (PhD), now on the factory floor. Writing about what actually works
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 19 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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At a Die Casting Show, I Ran Into Someone Who Had Already Seen Our Data
On September 29, I was walking the floor at NADCA's Die Casting Congress & Tabletop in Grand Rapids.
The show floor at NADCA's Die Casting Congress & Tabletop, DeVos Place, Grand Rapids, September 29.
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Which Factory Jobs Will AI Take First? A Die Casting Story
A breakdown of a field report from First Principles Manufacturing, a newsletter by Yuanwei Ma at the intersection of AI, robotics, manufacturing and US–China.
A chance meeting at a die casting trade show turns into a bigger question: which...
The Millennium Problem Was the Easy Part
On September 1, OpenAI launched a batch of agents. On the order of ten thousand of them, running at once, split into groups, each group working a different variant of the Navier–Stokes problem.
Eighty-eight hours later, on September 5, the...
I Saw This Startup Three Times at IMTS. Three Days After the Show, Its Eyes Sold for $500 Million
The first time was at Inbolt's own booth. A robot was bin picking automotive parts out of a jumbled bin, and picking them accurately. The person at the booth told me: 1 mm accuracy, 60 frames per second.
I was impressed. The first thing th...
Engineering the Map
On September 16, Siemens and Procter & Gamble announced that they are rolling out AI-based visual quality inspection across P&G's plants worldwide. The product is called Visual Inspection Cockpit. It runs on Siemens Industrial Edge, inspect...
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A nuclear engineer building AI + robotics for inspection, grinding, deburring, and welding — from a Novi, Michigan lab. Weekly field notes from the American factory floor.
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