Mission Control

Mission Control makes Bob, a wearable that captures the hands-on expertise nobody wrote down.

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At 600 lines a minute, the tray on our CO2 laser shakes and the prints come out wavy.

The fix is a pad of sticky notes jammed into the corner of the bay. Our software wrote it into the procedure as a "stabilizing pad."

What's the sticky-note fix in your shop?

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@jordan_the_leaf he also knows where every odd fixture in the building ended up, so the friendship pays twice

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@JoyfulDynamics @noxmetals stock ordered for v1 that still finds a job in the new design is money well spent, and leftovers turning into fixtures is a shop tradition

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@CriticalLaser 13 feet of brake changes which jobs you get to say yes to

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@irvinxyz the fun part of opening another shop is finding out which setups from the last one only lived in one person's head

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we asked a recording of our laser setup why the prints come out wavy. the solution was a pad of sticky notes, from the guy who put it there

[Ramsay @_ramsaybrown]

You have now lived long enough to see headlines from the Midwest once so far outside the Overton that @UseMissionCtrl investors in 2021 told me to stop scaring the hoes this was patently sci fi and would never happen

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@jonathan_sessa always a strange day when the machine that paid for the new ones leaves on a truck

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@gak_pdx the item that never shows up on the BOM is the one person who remembers how the 57 chunks go together

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asked the bob recording why our laser prints come out wavy, without mentioning the sticky notes

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@TylerAlterman we went the other way: the person doing the job talks out loud and the recording turns into the instructions

subvocal would be a gift in a loud shop though

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@davidliuxyz @garrytan @ycombinator counterpoint from a shop that bought the hobby laser: it works fine as long as someone jams a pad of sticky notes into the corner of the bay

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@ThaaatColin @MatthewChang @_ramsaybrown @thereforgepod

[Thaaat Colin @ThaaatColin]

@MatthewChang @UseMissionCtrl @_ramsaybrown Coming to the @thereforgepod soon(ish)

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@_ramsaybrown @MatthewChang 💖💖

[Ramsay @_ramsaybrown]

@MatthewChang 🫡🫶🫵

[Matthew Chang @MatthewChang]

@_ramsaybrown Official Ramsey fanboy 🙋‍♂️

[Ramsay @_ramsaybrown]

Get on a plane. Fly places. Meet the real people - in person - who need what you’re building. Listen carefully, take notes, and break bread. You can’t solve it from a whiteboard.

Had the incredible opportunity to meet @MatthewChang today at one of Chang Robotics’ facilities. He and his crazy smart team are growing quickly. Which is no surprise: they have a wildly clear understanding of what it takes to stand up new factories, and what real teams need from real robotics platforms. What a refreshing break from the hype.

Flew out with a case of Bob units: the gameboy and the vegeta scouter. Ethan took to it immediately. These tools are built to help winning teams go from great to untouchable by combining the intuition and genius of a human roboticist/machinist with what AI is naturally good at.

We’re proud to support Chang and grateful for the unique opportunity we got today. Thanks Matt and looking forward to more to come 👊🙏🍻

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Capturing knowledge in a digital SOP with @MatthewChang and @ChangRobotics 👀

[Matthew Chang @MatthewChang]

Meet your mutuals IRL, especially if they bring AI knowledge capture for robotics to your robot lab. That’s me wearing AI glasses building a digital Matt with Ramsay Brown.

@_ramsaybrown made the trip to Jacksonville to demo Mission Control while our techs had a scheduled autonomous robot repair.

Our tech Ethan, who is a 24 year old engineering grad from @JacksonvilleU, replaced the braking system on a @MobileIndRobots by @Teradyneinc AMR.

That knowledge is now captured in a digital SOP with video, transcript, and auto generated PDF for training.

The next generation of new hires will talk to digital Ethan before repairing an AMR.

The guy in the blue shirt is Joe, our CIO who is responsible for our SOC2 compliance and data privacy. It is very challenging to get hard tech through Joe. So far Ramsay seems to be winning him over based on starting with a sovereign data architecture.

My plan is to deploy this technology with our field technicians while we build a factory, and turn over the SOP’s to our customers as a gift, replacing/supplementing the legacy practice of O&M manuals.

At the local trade schools, where the factory operators train prior to employment at the factories we build, the operators will be able to train on the SOP’s our technicians generate during install and commissioning.

-your neighborhood engineer

CC: @spkcostello

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@MatthewChang @_ramsaybrown Love to see it 👀💪