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Siemens Reports 20% More Throughput and Names No Baseline Siemens says an initial customer deployment increased throughput by 20% and names no customer or baseline. An arXiv paper reports its tardiness... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

Who Enforces the Rules in Your Shop? OSH Cut's design check rejected AI-designed tube parts, and the AI redesigned them to fit the laser. A benchmark found AI models slip when scheduling requirements are... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

97% Say AI Runs Their Workflows. 62% Still Call Planning Their Hardest Problem. Fictiv found 97% of leaders say AI is embedded everywhere while 62% call planning their hardest problem, ERP builders on X say... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

NVIDIA and Palantir Announced a Supply-Chain AI Stack NVIDIA and Palantir's new AI stack leaves supply chain experts in control of final decisions, a scheduling summit says AI does not yet reliably generate... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

AI Can Draw the Part Now. Somebody Still Has to Cut It. A viral AI CAD tool split machinists and engineers this week, ERP vendors upgraded their pitch to "auditable" action, and the one clean AI win on record... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

Five Vendors Sold Autonomous AI This Week. The People Who'd Run It Said Not Yet. SAP, NEC, Syspro, ketteQ, and Eyelit all pitched AI agents built to act on their own this week. A job shop CEO called it the... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

The New AI Agent Promises Autonomy. This Week's Research Says Not Yet. An AI scheduling agent built to act on its own, a paper catching AI schedulers go short-sighted without scaffolding, and forecasts that... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

A Job Shop CEO Skipped the AI. He Bought Capacity Instead. This week a high-mix cutting shop's CEO said the quiet part about scheduling AI out loud, a Deloitte survey found most AI use cases still can't scale... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

Your Floor Needs a Decision in Milliseconds. The AI Needs 100 Seconds to Think. SAP and Plataine both demoed AI agents this week that promise to reschedule your floor in real time. New scheduling research... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

8 claims about AI in your shop, each one contradicting what you've been told. Attribution: VelocitySchedulingSystem.com… file:///C:/ObsidianVault-Lisa/20-Projects/manifesto/webpage/webpage-v1-preview.html#claims-box

Twelve ERPs Shipped "AI." None of Them Do the Work. A job shop owner audited fourteen ERP systems this week and found the same pattern six new scheduling papers proved from the opposite direction. AI keeps... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

The Boring Company Didn't Wait for an AI Vendor. It Built Its Own Factory Brain. Four new scheduling papers raced each other on milliseconds this week. One real factory just built the thing none of them are... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

NVIDIA Built the Factory a Brain. The Floor Still Doesn't Trust the Data. A vendor unveiled a unified AI system to coordinate the whole shop floor this month. The operators running real factories spent the... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

The AI Finally Found the Bottleneck. It Had to Be Told. The newest state-of-the-art scheduling AI got there by hand-coding one old idea, that an error at the bottleneck costs more than an error anywhere else... automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

The System Was Broken. AI Just Made It Faster. A manufacturing engineer watched SAP increase his plant's ERP headcount by 5x and slow kitting by half. Leadership called it a success. automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

You Don't Have a Data Problem. You Have a Context Problem. 93% of manufacturers started AI projects. 29% have AI running on the floor. The gap isn't what you think. automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

They Filled the Convention Center. Eight in Ten Factories Have Zero Automation. Automate 2026 brought 1,000 vendors to Chicago. The constraint was never the technology supply. automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

AI Made Your Shop Worse First. A Lot of Shops Are Still There. Census data confirms the J-curve: AI initially drops manufacturing productivity. The shops that recover answered the constraint question first. automatingconfusion.substack… #Manufacturing #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

Gartner: ~130 of thousands of "agentic #AI" vendors are real. The rest are agent washing. 5 surveys, one answer: 5-11% of AI projects produce results. Even when AI saves time, no one redesigned the flow to capture it. #Manufacturing #TheoryOfConstraints automatingconfusion.substack…

#Manufacturing AI research just dropped 12 new scheduling papers in one month. Transformers. Graph networks. LLMs. Your router data is still wrong. The bottleneck isn't the algorithm. automatingconfusion.substack… #AI #TheoryOfConstraints