Research & Insights
Deep dives into systems thinking, AI in manufacturing, and the future of engineering intelligence.
Field Notes · Chetan Anand · · 3 min read
P&L savings are only one side of the equation. The other is capital efficiency — knowing whether the enterprise already has the manufacturing capability it's about to buy, and what happened the last time it faced a decision like this.
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Engineering Intelligence Series · Aditi Chakravarthy · · 8 min read
Procurement isn't simply choosing suppliers. It is determining which engineering and commercial experience accumulated over decades is relevant to the decision in front of you.
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Engineering Intelligence Series · Chetan Anand · · 8 min read
Every outgoing RFQ ultimately comes down to three questions: who should receive it, what is a commercially reasonable price, and which supplier deserves the greatest confidence to award the business.
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Engineering Intelligence Series · Aditi S. Chakravarthy · · 7 min read
Why the three confidence decisions — build, quote, commit — depend on engineering identity, enterprise relationships, and traceable engineering evidence.
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Engineering Intelligence Series · Chetan Anand · · 9 min read
Every incoming RFQ gives manufacturers days to decide and weeks to deliver. Why suppliers who respond with confidence win more work — and what makes that confidence possible.
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Manufacturing Intelligence · Chetan Anand · · 12 min read
Why the next manufacturing software category will be built around engineering intelligence, not records, parts, or search.
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Manufacturing Intelligence · Aditi S Chakravarthy · · 7 min read
Geometric clustering is becoming a standard feature in CAD and PLM. That's not the hard part — and it's not where the value is. Here's what comes after.
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Manufacturing Intelligence · Chetan Anand · · 7 min read
Great manufacturing is accumulated human intelligence — and it is under pressure from two forces most manufacturers experience every day but rarely name: the Human Limit and the Systems Limit.
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Foundational Paper · Aditi S Chakravarthy · · 8 min read
Reading a drawing and understanding it are two completely different problems. Why shape is the foundation — and what it costs manufacturers every day this gap isn't closed.
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Foundational Paper · Aditi S Chakravarthy · · 8 min read
Why standard AI approaches fail on engineering drawings — and what building AI for manufacturing data actually requires.
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Field Notes · Chetan Anand · · 7 min read
What three questions asked on a factory floor revealed about a problem hiding inside almost every manufacturing company.
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Systems Thinking · Chetan Anand · · 7 min read
Manufacturing looks like a marvel of coordination from the outside. Look closer, and the cracks show — design changes trigger costly delays, sourcing teams re-buy duplicate parts, and quality rebuilds plans from scratch. The tools aren't broken; they're just blind to what happens outside their silo.
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Systems Thinking · Chetan Anand · · 7 min read
We were taught to break problems down, isolate variables, and solve for 'x'. But the real world runs on complex systems — and systems behave differently. We mastered differentiation but forgot integration. This piece explores why brilliant specialists still miss the bigger picture, and why systems thinking is no longer optional in the age of AI.
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AI in Manufacturing · Chetan Anand · · 5 min read
Engineering drawings — long treated as static, siloed files — are rich reservoirs of product intelligence. From BOM synchronization and change impact analysis to accumulated engineering judgment and digital twin generation, AI is turning passive documentation into active drivers of decisions.
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