Manufacturing Incentive
A practical look at the incentive programs in Thailand and Vietnam, what foreign founders need to do to incorporate in each country, and where the programs are genuinely useful and where they fall short.
Government Program
This is the second article about Sovereign industrialisation of Western countries with a focus on Australia, Singapore, South Korea and Canada. Here I go into some depth around the Government programs to incentivise creating manufacturing businesses in these countries. Australia: The National Reconstruction Fund and What Sits Around It Australia&
Government Program
A look at the programs governments are running to rebuild domestic manufacturing and what a founder needs to know to access them. Something changed in the way governments think about manufacturing around 2020 and the shift has not reversed. What changed was not political fashion but lived experience: a pandemic
News
This article is a deeper look at how AI handles CAD generation, floorplan and layout recognition, materials estimation, and quantities takeoffs. While LLMs have excellent capabilities there are some areas where these models have some disadvantages as compared to traditional human analysis of plans and CAD files. In the first
Mapping how AI is being used to design the next set of machines AI is no longer just augmenting industrial engineering, in the most advanced labs and startups today, it is actually already doing the engineering work such as generating chip layouts, simulating material failure, navigating autonomous vehicles in real
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