RESOURCES
Thinking Clearly About Manufacturing AI.
Three places to go deeper — the newsletter, the research it draws on, and a record of talks and press. Start wherever fits the question you're carrying.
Published on LinkedIn, most Wednesdays
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ABOUT THE NEWSLETTER
Signal, not hype.
Published on LinkedIn, A Brighter Path 4wardsynthesizes the most important research, thinking, and field experience on manufacturing AI — and situates it in the AIMS framework.
It's written for CDOs, CIOs, and plant leaders who need to think clearly about AI without being sold something. Each issue connects external signals — or lived experience — to the practical questions manufacturing leaders are facing.
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THE SERIES SO FAR
A sustained arc, not one-off posts.
No. 1
The single insight at the center of the AIMS framework.
No. 02
Jobs-to-Be-Done, applied to manufacturing AI.
No. 03
Manual > Smart > AI Lit-Up, and why people are the asset
No. 04
From operational KPIs to the cognitive metrics most frameworks miss.
No. 05
Why better models don't fix the problem; better management does.
No. 06
Bringing the arc together into a structured system.
No. 07
The AIMS lens on what's breaking now
These issues turn the framework on emerging news, reports, and developments as they surface.
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KEY RESEARCH & REPORTS
Grounded in the best available evidence.
This is the research I draw on — and a resource in its own right: reports of interest worth your time, even the ones I haven't published a response to.
WEF
World Economic Forum / Accenture
Industrial AI: Impact, Adoption and Response
INCIT
AIMRI Framework
AI Maturity & Readiness Index framework and assessment tools
MLC
Manufacturing Leadership Council
Future of Digital Leadership survey
McK
McKinsey / MIT
MIMO Report on manufacturing and AI
BCG
Boston Consulting Group
AI workforce impact research
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SPEAKING REFERENCES
Talks, panels & press.
Stage
Speaker, panelist & moderator
MD&M West - SME - MD&D Midwest - MLC - IRI - Semicon West - PMMI
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