RE: Digital Manufacturing: A Modern Industrial Revolution?

michaelkellett — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:14:31 GMT

Digital Manufacturing = hype !

Manufacturing has been steadily evolving - since the first two cavemen got together and set up a flint tool factory - they made tools and traded for food.

If America hopes to revitalize its industrial manufacturing sector by pumping government money into silly competitions based on the latest media buzz phrase then it's doomed to failure.

In my book the biggest single contributor (in as much as such a concepts valid at all) to modern manufacturing performance is statistical process control - gathering data does nothing - it's using the data that counts.

In reality evolution (of anything) is based on millions of little steps and circumstances.

BTW, Bell Labs did not invent Lasers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRL_Laboratories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Townes