Solving Climate Change Using Automation
Back in the 1990’s I left the Northwest after years working for subcontractors to Boeing, Kenworth, Boston Scientific to enter into the Semiconductor industry. Little did I know that this decision would change my way of thinking about solving problems for every.
We manufacturing engineers tend to focus on a specific field and rarely deviate. Machining, stamping, molding, circuit boards, wire harnesses, composites are a few to name. When you land in semiconductors where the FAB’s are massive operations that span $8–10B in unique manufacturing processes, you best become a diversified manufacturing professional. My little startup did just that. We figured out how to calibrate, and teach robots how to do thier jobs with the highest precision.
The most memorable customer was Intel. Intel had a way of torturing it’s staff and it’s vendors into a way of doing business that I harp over daily. When we would sit down in planning meetings at this amazing technology giant, two statements would start each meeting. “Your predecessor double the power of these products 18 months ago, and left you to do the same. Don’t let them down. The second, more practical statement was. Human error will find a way to wreck processes, your job is to human proof all processes.
ANEW Energy is building out high speed manufacturing factories that we believe will produce one of our products every minute. What that does is create good paying jobs downstream. Automation brings product costs to their lowest form factor while improving the quality of the end product. When we roll that out into the field, and work to humanproof the installation of these renewable energy generators, we once again improve the chance of success greatly.
Back in the Intel days we did not have the training and certification tools that modern cloud based tools provide. A smartphone can now train and certify subcontractors and make them work as part of the team. Automating this side of the business brings products and service solutions to their lowests costs, resulting in mass scale adoption of renewable energy products.
Onward….P
