Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Additive manufacturing technology is ever evolving, and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is not only one of the most important additive technologies used today, but is in a perpetual state of evolution. It’s a 3D printing technology, but rather than serving hobbiests printing pickleball paddles, it’s absolutely crucial in the traditional and advanced manufacturing processes.  But…

If you know anything about how the wave light behaves, you might be aware that light consists of photons, and not electrons. So why does that matter? It matters because lasers are just a collection of organized, dense light waves and photons concentrated on one point. Electron beams are not photons; they are electrons, and…

Advanced manufacturing, in many people’s minds, is relegated to very high-value and advanced industries, such as aerospace and chip fabbing. In fact, SpaceX completely pioneered many of the cutting-edge manufacturing processes being used in aerospace manufacturing today, and the Chinese have been diligently taking notes to launch their own competitor. However, advanced manufacturing is omnipresent…

Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is a form of metal 3D printing technology that manufacturers will implement when they need high-performance parts that have complex geometry. It differs from it’s cousing, Selective Laser Sintering, because with melting, you melt metal into liquid, whereas with sintering, you are fusing or bonding the particles together. Because you melt…

In the quantum world, light is actually a collection of photons that exist in a “wave probability,” and lasers act as organized light, meaning that the photons are emitted more in synch and in the same direction; a more focused and dense version of light, if you will. The ability to harness light and redirect…

If you run a manufacturing business properly, then you should constantly be resupplying inventory for your buyers, and the better inventroy your produce, the faster your suppliers will move it off the shelves, decreasing the number of days in your model. But here’s the catch: inventory management isn’t so simple; it doesn’t take an MBA…

AI data centers are a political problem, and it’s a concern that reaches every corner of the world. On the one hand, you have a breakthrough technology that is attracting billions of dollars and investments in cities and municipalities around the world in the form of data centers. On the other hand, you have data…

If you are familiar with the stock ticker AVGO, you might not know that it’s linked to the company Broadcom, a leader in both semiconductors and enterprise software. Almost as if TMC and Oracle had a baby. Today, Broadcom sits right in the middle of the AI revolution, providing both the infrastructure that fuels AI,…

How do you decide what buffer to have in your inventory in the form of safety stock? You need enough buffer stock to hedge against any unforeseen events like transnational virus mutations. You build too much of a buffer, and you could be sitting there with excess inventory, draining your overall efficiency as a business.…