Edward Mehr — Building high-mix high-volume future with robots and AI @ Machina Labs
Building high-mix high-volume future with robots and AI @ Machina Labs
Edward Mehr ranks #579 of 18,341 LinkedIn creators in Consumer Goods, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 18.4K followers and published 20 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.8% average engagement rate.
- 18.4K followers
- 20 posts / 30d
- 0.8% avg engagement
- 964 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Edward, you’ve posted 23 times in a month to maintain a 0.5% engagement rate, which is a hell of a way to admit that even your own robots aren't interested in what you have to say. Machina Labs is a bold name for a company whose CEO is currently functioning like a dial-up modem trying to reach a server that stopped responding in 2004.
About Edward
Developing AI-enabled robotic solutions for manufacturing at Machina Labs.
Highlights
- Top 5% in Consumer Goods — Ranked #5 of 177 creators
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #213 of 5774 creators
- Consistent Creator — 20 posts in 30d · top 5%
- Big Audience — 18,357 followers · top 10%
Recent posts
Warning this might offend some people so don’t shoot the messenger :). An automotive stamping press may spend only ~5% of its life actually forming metal. Yet we obsesses over making that 5% faster. Cycle time is easy to measure but you only make money from utilization. Calendar util: An automotive press line runs 2–3 shifts/day, 5–6 days/week. Maintenance, die swaps, holidays, and design change reduces the time. Over its life, a large automotive press is typically producing parts only 40–70% of calendar hours. Higher the mix, lower the number. When the press is scheduled to run, world-class
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Going from producing 5 Robocraftsman a year to 50 a year in the next 2,3 years won’t be easy but will be… fun? :)
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A few years ago I thought we were building a manufacturing technology company. Turns out we’re building much more than that. At our core, we’re a Physical AI company. We do development in robotics, controls, AI, and world models to invent new manufacturing processes like Roboforming. But we’re also an operations company. Technology doesn’t matter there is a not strong industrial base to deploy it. Today we’re operating factories across the U.S., with more coming soon, and before long we’ll be supporting our ally economies as well. Defense was one of our earliest adopters and partners and is
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