Emil Falk

Here are some great pieces of advice if you want to make your hardware more manufacturable that we're using: 1. Standardize your fasteners to one type or family. 2. Lowering the assembly time in your entire supplychain is the goal, not just your own assembly time. 3. Use Elon Musks idiot index to figure out what components should be replaced or altered. 4. Customization is death. Off-the-shelf is resilient.

@paulg come to our hardware/physical AI lab in stockholm

We're in Stockholm. You know how there are some places where you think "Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there"? Stockholm is the kind of place that makes you want to live there.

@Gablacktus @parthingle_x not what I said. read the post again.

@falkemil_ @parthingle_x You don’t see a difference between software production and hardware production. Really?

everyone wants to copy Shenzen into America, no one wants to run a 5% margin business with constant cutthroat competition

@JasonPremoMFG Instant quoting for customer accounts then? Doesn’t have to keep it open to the public.

"All machine shops must have AI online instant quoting. Otherwise how will 100,000 random internet people with gmail and proton mail accounts upload their CAD files to get instant pricing and commoditize it like buying something from Amazon gaww!!"

@JasonPremoMFG @Colonize_Titan Weird thing to say that your customers want to fill out forms

@Colonize_Titan We (usually) get quotes back to customers in 1 day. Sometimes hours. While we do help some startups, most of our customers are established firms that actually want to TALK first, fill out forms & surveys etc Plus I need to make sure they are not commies or Taylor Swift fans

Building software-powered hardware is the ultimate moat. Two dimensions of complexity where collaboration between different domains becomes increasingly complex as your product gets more functions.

@aphysicist @atomic_inc design-for-automation is the way to do HW nowadays

she's not wrong. a mold designer at atomic today can out-design 1000 sitting in china. if you want to build this future join us @atomic_inc

@PhilipJohnston we need a foxconn in us

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@zanehengsperger we are running out of 70 year olds

the machines are not going to fix themselves please dont try to solve machine maintenance w SaaS or we wont be able to feed our future children just send the 70 year old with the wrench

Defence companies need to start using the idiot index when looking to manufacture. Idiot Index = Final Product Price ÷ Raw Material Cost The higher the ratio, the more "idiotic" the markup. Taxpayers are losing money due to this inherent markup. This is one of the reasons the US is running out of munitions in the war against Iran.

The most pivotal military invention has to be nuclear weapons Before nukes, great powers went to war the way people get into bar fights, someone throws a punch, see how it goes. After nukes, the entire equation changed: you hit me, I hit you back, and now nobody has a civilization to go home to. The cost of war became infinite. Feels like everyone has forgot the world has nukes. Country-leaders will get executed either way so why not just take everyone down with them?

@MattLoszak where did you find this? what area?

Shopping for factory space is the best kind of shopping

@aphysicist @sama a mcp for cnc machines

@sama factories need a protocol too

feels like a good time to seriously rethink how operating systems and user interfaces are designed (also the internet; there should be a protocol that is equally usable by people and agents)

@joni_askola or here is another idea: all countries start mass-producing drones (we need decentralised production of defence equipment). 90% is donated to ukraine, 10% is stockpiled

We need to get much more creative in how we rearm Europe and support Ukraine. Here is one idea: we buy Ukrainian drones and missiles for our own stockpiles, but let Kyiv use them right now. They can physically deliver our orders after the war

Anduril's smaller kamikaze drone is ... interesting. 1. The idiot index the gap between raw materials and finished product cost. A high idiot index = manufacturing inefficiency. 25k per kamikaze system is a fraud. @PalmerLuckey what the actual fuck? The input components of that drone is so fucking cheap? The drones we sell at Tenet Industries cost max 500 USD to 1 000 USD with western components. 2. Scalability is a joke Anduril can produce 100 systems per month? a squad of four ukrainian soldiers can use 200 drones per day.. At Tenet we can produce 250 drones in 8 hours in current capacity. @anduriltech just subcontract your kamikaze quadcopter line to us. you will make more money.

Running a defense company like a software startup and prioritising SW + design-for-manufacturing is the way to build great products fast.

@PalmerLuckey @mil000 Yeah this sure would be a dumb product if you can only produce 175 per month .

@mil000 Yeah this sure would be a dumb product if it cost 10x more. But it doesn't. Amazing critique, stunning and brave.

none of this matters if it’s 250k per unit

@rayanboukhanifi Shenzhen should be visited by all HW engineers

The best school for hardware is Shenzhen