4 posts on AI-Native manufacturing, MES, and industrial systems.
Manufacturing systems started with simple IF-THEN rules. Then operations got complex. Now we have dense meshes of business logic that only specialists can navigate — and that's the real problem.
Everyone's adding AI to their factory systems. Very few are rebuilding those systems to be AI-first. The difference is everything.
When the same event can mean completely different things depending on context — and why that changes everything about how we design manufacturing systems.
Not because engineers are less capable. Not because factories lack automation. But because manufacturing complexity is growing faster than the system architectures we've built can absorb.