Kumaresh Bhuyan

Manufacturing modernisation is not only about new machines. It is also about making better use of the data, systems and expertise a plant already has. Every factory has problems it has learned to live with Every factory has work that everyone knows is slow, manual or error-prone, and that nobody expects to change. A safety supervisor walks the floor to spot a blocked exit. An export team checks invoices against purchase orders and letters of credit, line by line. A planner builds the morning...

Convincing demos are easy. Useful systems are rare. The difference is rarely the model. It is the nerve to kill the wrong idea before you build it, and the discipline to carry the right one into production. A product we worked on set out to solve a real problem, rewarding people for the exact value their training data adds. On paper it did almost everything right. Contributors uploaded private or synthetic data. The system logged each contribution's provenance on a blockchain, fine-tuned a...