MurrayMentor

Honor the skill. Build the future.

The AI mentor for skilled trades.

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

The big hurdles:
- Motivated folks building sol'ns for problems they don't fully understand
- Lean teams who want a perfection before applying tech
- Data teams claiming your data is garbage when the critical data isn't even being collected

Meet Practical AI for Manufacturing:
Honor the Skill. Build the future.

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

https://t.co/LE4H4oKhG6

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

The excellence of skilled trades and US manufacturing echo through history, even if the names are forgotten.

The story of Willow Run and the mass production of the B-24 Liberator is amazing. It is as much about operational and engineering excellence as it is about the ability of skilled tradesmen and women learn from and pass to the next "generation" of worker, when those generations were measured in months, not decades.

One complete B-24 rolled off every 63 minutes
- 450,000 individual parts
- nearly 1,000 suppliers
- 360,000 rivets per aircraft across 550 sizes
- 42,000 employees with their own bus line from Detroit
- 35% female workforce paid equally working a 54 hour week with overtime pay
- 3.5M sqft with a main building 1 mile long

Every manufactured item you touch has benefitted from the massive effort of the engineers and trades that teamed up in a field in Willow Run, MI. Everything.

Honor the skill. Build the future.

Assisted by AI, written by humans, h/t to @ ThomasRelivesHistory on YouTube

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

when toyota makes reindustrialization moves, pay attention

[Jack Watson @jack_watson_hfw]

@PaulBoris_ Maybe🤫If they don’t like handcuffs, then they need to train the young guys and use @MurrayMentor 😎

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

Honor the skill. Build the future.
It is our birthright, and responsibility.

Happy 250th Birthday, America!

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, we see a powerful investment theme emerging from one of the nation’s oldest strengths: manufacturing.

The factories, suppliers, machinists, engineers, and skilled tradespeople who built America’s industrial base are now facing a generational transition, and the knowledge that keeps production moving is at real risk of walking out the door. Murray Mentor was built for this moment.

Our mission of Honoring the Skill and Building the Future positions us at the intersection of AI, workforce continuity, industrial productivity, and reshoring momentum—helping manufacturers preserve critical expertise, accelerate onboarding, reduce dependency on a shrinking expert base, and unlock measurable value across the plant floor.

We wish you a wonderful Fourth of July holiday and are grateful for your confidence and support.

h/t to our co-founder, COO, and metal-bender herself, Susan Murray Carlock.

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

Honor the skill. Build the future.

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

"Tesla’s manufacturing edge is not the Giga Press hardware itself. It is the accumulated knowledge ..."

Imagine harvesting and redeploying the accumulated knowledge across US Manufacturing.

Honor the skill. Build the future.

[Luca Greco @lucagrecoita]

Tesla cut its Gigacasting processing time from 180 seconds to 75 seconds — nearly 60% faster 🌊

The Model Y Juniper rear casting now weighs approximately 60 kg, down from 67 kg on the previous generation.

Much of the industry conversation centers on press size and tonnage.

The concrete gains in speed and mass on this high-volume part come from targeted process refinements inside the die and across the production system.

-> Processing time reduced from 180s to 75s on the rear casting

-> Part weight lowered by 7 kg through incremental design improvements

-> Faster cycle achieved while improving microstructure and mechanical properties

Conformal cooling makes the difference. Complex water channels, drilled or through 3D-printed inserts directly into the die steel, target hot spots and pull heat out rapidly and evenly across the entire casting.

This accelerates solidification, reduces temperature gradients, and allows the part to be ejected sooner without defects.

The result is a casting that is both lighter and stronger, produced in less than half the time.

Supporting elements include advanced software that controls every injection parameter and runner/gate designs refined through five years of iteration since 2020

+ close collaboration among casting designers, die engineers, production, and safety teams running high-volume lines on three continents.

Tesla’s manufacturing edge is not the Giga Press hardware itself. It is the accumulated knowledge of how to run these machines at scale.

📊 The Gigacasting Database gives you the full picture of the market: https://t.co/JApvVcQkhT

Credit: Atomic Industries - @aphysicist

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[Luca Greco @lucagrecoita]

Tesla cut its Gigacasting processing time from 180 seconds to 75 seconds — nearly 60% faster 🌊

The Model Y Juniper rear casting now weighs approximately 60 kg, down from 67 kg on the previous generation.

Much of the industry conversation centers on press size and tonnage.

The concrete gains in speed and mass on this high-volume part come from targeted process refinements inside the die and across the production system.

-> Processing time reduced from 180s to 75s on the rear casting

-> Part weight lowered by 7 kg through incremental design improvements

-> Faster cycle achieved while improving microstructure and mechanical properties

Conformal cooling makes the difference. Complex water channels, drilled or through 3D-printed inserts directly into the die steel, target hot spots and pull heat out rapidly and evenly across the entire casting.

This accelerates solidification, reduces temperature gradients, and allows the part to be ejected sooner without defects.

The result is a casting that is both lighter and stronger, produced in less than half the time.

Supporting elements include advanced software that controls every injection parameter and runner/gate designs refined through five years of iteration since 2020

+ close collaboration among casting designers, die engineers, production, and safety teams running high-volume lines on three continents.

Tesla’s manufacturing edge is not the Giga Press hardware itself. It is the accumulated knowledge of how to run these machines at scale.

📊 The Gigacasting Database gives you the full picture of the market: https://t.co/JApvVcQkhT

Credit: Atomic Industries - @aphysicist

❌ Don't leave your insights to chance with the X algorithm

✅ Subscribe for free to my weekly newsletter about all things Gigacasting and magnesium Thixomolding: https://t.co/dNqB8sgbXo 📬

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

"The infrastructure operates on decades-old systems and dwindling numbers of staff who retain the necessary institutional memory."

Sounds familiar.

Honor the skill. Build the future.

@elishasauers

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[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

"Our fighting spirit is a living legacy of all who stepped forward."

Different time. Different fight. Just as important.

Honor the skill. Build the future.

@reindsummit

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

Honor the skill. Build the future.

See you at @reindsummit in Detroit. Excited to talk to investors and share our progress, hear from builders, and network with the folks rebuilding industry.

[REINDUSTRIALIZE SUMMIT @reindsummit]

Good morning, we are going to win. See you in Detroit.

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

Stay with me - this is why mentors for skilled trades and manufacturing are so important - the banter that challenges the "quick thinking" and cements knowledge.

Operator: "Hey Murray, I'll use the metal gripper replacements instead"
Murray: "Hold on, while that seems like a good idea, they will damage the robot arm..."

- that tacit knowledge was gained from a long time expert
- there is no place for it in your SoP or Work Instructions - all the 'yeah, good idea but' scenarios disappear

Deploy AI in operation is hours, not months.
Scale it in weeks.
Preserve that tacit knowledge before it escapes.

For the love of Murray, stop the data scrubbing!

[0xDipper @Dipper_pol]

Daniel Kahneman - the psychologist who won a Nobel in economics - spent his life proving one thing: your confidence is lying to you

A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. The answer "10 cents" jumps to mind instantly. It's wrong (it's 5 cents) - and ~50% of students at Harvard, MIT and Princeton say it without checking.

That gap is his whole point: the fast, intuitive mind builds a clean story from almost nothing, and the feeling of certainty has nothing to do with being right.

"Confidence is a feeling, not a judgment."

"Stock pickers can't develop intuition - there isn't enough regularity for it to form."

"You can build a very coherent story out of very little information."

~45 min, free. how your mind fools you - from a man who studied it for 50 years ↓

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

"...we prized low-cost inputs without first asking whether a nation can remain sovereign when it loses command over the things that matter most."

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

"A nation that cannot manufacture, mine, ship, or refine its needs gradually cedes its strength and sovereignty to others."

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

For too long, our political class treated efficiency as a substitute for resilience and consumption as a measure of prosperity.

Trade policy, industrial capacity, and national security are inseparable. And to allow foreign dependencies to degrade any one of those domains is to allow them to define America’s future. Under @POTUS’ leadership, we are rebuilding domestic production to restore American sovereignty.

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

This is where technology can definitely be assistive.

The OG without an apprentice definitely has a lot buried in their subconscious. The mentoring process exposes it as the mentee asks probing questions, and that triggers even more concepts from the mentor. None of this happens if you hand the OG a keyboard, or a Meta glasses to record - all you get is skimming.

Once this is all exposed, you really need to protect the IP while finding a way to keep it evergreen.

That is precisely what we've built to address the skilled trades brain drain. Deploys in a day, scales in weeks, no data scrubbing, yet stays evergreen.

[MurrayMentor @MurrayMentor]

@VorpalDerringer @ThaaatColin @unforgivnbastrd So the work spent accumulating documents, while largely non-value add is at least incomplete.

Only partly being sarcastic.

There's a better way to accomplish the goal, but we can lead people to water, we just can't force them to drink.