notboring.co

Senra Systems: Harnessing Human Skill

Within skilled assembly, wire harnesses are perhaps the trickiest to get right, or at least the trickiest that we need a lot of, the trickiest without which nothing else turns on. So if you've been trained to heatseek bottlenecks at the system level and throw everything you've got at them until they're knocked out and you can move on to the next one, then wire harnessing is the logical place to start. And it turns out you can't automate it, yet.

notboring.co

Weekly Dose of Optimism #201

Getting any one advanced reactor to criticality by July 4, 2026 would have been considered a minor miracle, but getting four with more to come means that there's going to be competition. Whoever can deploy most quickly, with a product that customers want, at the best price, will win. The field shifts from science to manufacturing.

whyisthisinteresting

The Real McCoy’s Edition

The goal was never to deliver a replica, but rather each style's ideal final form: The piece the wartime factory would have made if it hadn't been racing to meet a quota.

notboring.co

America Spins on Westmag

In the Electric Era, maintaining design leadership without manufacturing leadership is not a coherent strategic position, and one that gets less coherent the better you believe AI will get.

wired.com

Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever

Famous for helping build Apple's iPhones, Foxconn just suffered another cyberattack, highlighting the perils of warehousing some of the world's most valuable data.

noahpinion.blog

No, America is not in a "stealth manufacturing boom"

What I do see is the continuation of a decades-long stagnation in American manufacturing.