Paul Boris
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The Industry 3.9 Rut: The State of Modern Manufacturing
The Industry 3.9 Rut: The State of Modern Manufacturing
Some painful truths: #Manufacturing is experiencing a devastating loss of adaptive capacity. Current technology…
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Transforming Industrial Operations
Transforming Industrial Operations
Short Bio - Paul Boris Paul has driven digital transformation within industrial operations for decades. Starting his…
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Click-Connect-Collaborate to Accelerate your #AR and #Wearables strategy...
Click-Connect-Collaborate to Accelerate your #AR and #Wearables strategy...
One of the most demanded capabilities in the #WearableComputing space for operations, mechanics and field technicians -…
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This is why I stand...
This is why I stand...
I have no interest in expressing an opinion on why others do or do not stand for the National Anthem. Google "anthem…
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Driving Transformation? It is possible to predict the future.
Driving Transformation? It is possible to predict the future.
Previously, I wrote about the criticality of defining the Vision for your transformation - what is your real objective,…
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It starts with a Vision
It starts with a Vision
Last week I spoke at Manufacturing Technology Asia 2017, an event co-sponsored by Singapore's Economic Development…
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Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
Shamelessly (and without permission) reposted from Mike Rowe's FaceBook page (https://www.facebook.
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Paul Boris shared thisThis is so weird - first plant I ever ran, I told the owner I deserved a 50% raise. He said OK and gave me exactly the same set of metrics to hit that Elon got. ...at least that's what I remember.
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Paul Boris posted thisIf my Ops leader told me a bottleneck comprising 0.000042% of total capacity would be catastrophic to throughput and revenue, and they couldn't or wouldn't fix it, I'd likely fire them. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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Paul Boris reposted thisPaul Boris reposted thisThis note is 8 years old. An AE I led at Heroku reached out recently just to reconnect. He sent me a photo of this note. He kept it. For eight years! We're living in a world obsessed with AI agents, automation, and scale. And I'm not against any of it... I sell automation software for a living. But no AI agent is going to write something on real paper, in real ink, that someone keeps in a drawer for eight years. For over a decade, I've made it a habit to send handwritten notes to the people on my team when they join or when they do something worth celebrating. The most powerful thing you can do as a leader isn't the most efficient thing. It's the most intentional thing. He kept this for eight years. I didn't remember writing it. He never forgot receiving it. That gap between what it costs you and what it means to them is where great leadership lives. Five minutes. A pen. A notecard. Still the highest-leverage tool in my leadership stack. Do you have a note like this somewhere? Or have you sent one?
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Paul Boris shared thisSafety tip, in manufacturing, never use "staff hours saved" unless those are directly converted to billable hours elsewhere. But yes: - eliminate the mundane - attack decision latency AFTER - implementing an immutable record that surfaces bottlenecks, aka eVSM Am I close Jean-PhilippePaul Boris shared thisMIT says 95% of AI pilots fail. a16z says 29% of Fortune 500 companies have AI live in production. Both numbers are correct. MIT is counting the graveyard. a16z is counting the survivors. 78% of enterprises had launched AI agent pilots. Only 5% reached production scale. The failure point was often the same: - integration layers, - data pipelines, - no one who owned the transition from demo to deployed system. This week, Hannover Messe opens on April 20. Every industrial automation vendor will have an AI story. Most will be pilots. Here's what a working deployment looks like, AMD, internal AI agent: Steps replaced: 14 → 2 to 3 minutes Staff hours recovered: 3,100 per month Infrastructure added: zero — existing ERP, rewired data connections The difference between the 95% and the 29% is not the model. It's the layer beneath it. 40 years of data in siloed systems. OT networks that never spoke to ERP. Shift managers who were never asked what data they actually need. These are not IT problems. They're factory floor architecture problems. As usual, we bought the capability before we built the infrastructure. The 95% failure rate is not an AI problem. It's a sequencing problem. Where does your AI sit today: pilot graveyard or integrated system? 😉 #industrialAI #manufacturing #digitaltransformation
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Paul Boris reposted thisPaul Boris reposted thisManufacturing OGs and AGI, parrots and philosophers, and Anthropic's love letter to Claude Mythos... I won't waste a lot of words here, since this is a brilliant. h/t Mo Bitar "...put a parrot in a room full of philosophy podcasts, and be stunned when it says something about Kierkegaard" was my favorite. What was yours? Honor the skill. Build the future. ...and stop thinking your explicit data "trillion mega-pixel camera" can replace the deep tacit knowledge of the OGs that describes "heat".
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Paul Boris shared thisIt's only added pressure if you don't understand how to manage it. Great insights.Your Résumé Isn’t Your Calling Card Anymore. Why Your Strategy Needs to Change.Your Résumé Isn’t Your Calling Card Anymore. Why Your Strategy Needs to Change.
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Paul Boris reposted thisPaul Boris reposted this37,000 feet. Indian Ocean. All four engines dead. Captain Eric Moody did not panic. He picked up the intercom, looked at his instruments, and said the words that would make aviation history: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress." A small problem. Behind him, 263 people were writing goodbye letters to their families. What Moody knew, and they didn't, was that he was now piloting a 300-ton glider falling toward the mountains of Java. Mount Galunggung had erupted silently below. Volcanic ash invisible to radar had swallowed his engines whole, coating the turbine blades in liquid glass.He tried restarting. Nothing. Again. Nothing. Thirteen times. Nothing. The ground rose to meet them. Moody kept working. On the fourteenth attempt, at 13,000 feet, engine four coughed back to life. Then the others.But the ash had sandblasted the cockpit windshield completely opaque. Moody could not see the runway. He landed a Boeing 747 carrying 263 souls using instruments alone and a sliver of side-window visibility no wider than your hand. Every single person walked off that plane. When asked later what it felt like, Moody said simply: "We had a job to do, and we did it."Calm is not the absence of fear. It is a choice made under pressure, over and over again, until everyone gets home. #BritishAirways #Flight9 #CaptainEricMoody #Aviation #TrueStory #Heroism #Leadership #Calm #MindsetMatters #NeverGiveUp #AvGeek #AviationHistory
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Paul Boris shared thisSometimes I feel like I am on an island and wonder if I'm just missing it. Then I go touch metal and am reminded how the world functions. "Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional. It’s easy to defer, and the necessity of it accumulates invisibly and gradually — until suddenly one day the thing breaks, the system falters, and everything stops in a turmoil of disruption, expense, and BLAME." ...but at least we have the next-gen "Standard"oPs so we can quickly issue the beatings. This doc is the investment thesis for Crucible Capital, and it is thoughtfully constructed and speaks to the industrial and manufacturing challenges we face. You might enjoy reading it. Except... It doesn't address the human element. The ingenuity. The real foundation of all the great advancements it focuses on elevating. My objective is not to criticize their work. It is to expose the fact that human ingenuity is the most abundant, easily accessible, and largely ignored area opportunity. Or maybe to confirm it, because it feels like everyone is looking past it. Deep dynamic context will never be: 1) captured from an array of sensors (see also the I3.9 Rut) 2) cataloged by a UNS 3) transmitted by an uber-API 4) synthesized into a "golden process" 4) managed by a "Standard"oP Assuming so is the first step in the wrong direction. ✅ AI feels like Moore on steriods ✅ one step today is like a thousand 3 yrs ago ✅ 'a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step' is still true 🔥 heading out 1º off centerline quickly creates a massive impact gap, maybe an insurmountable one. While we're all enamored with the rapid technology advances, the indisputable fact is that at the bottom of all of it are the humans and the only truly renewable resource - ingenuity. The machines didn't build us, and once you see it, you cannot unsee it. All while we watch the artists that made the cave drawings we call SoPs vanish from the maintenance scene at an alarming rate. Impacting that is the real opportunity. h/t to Honour Masters for the piece.
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Paul Boris reposted thisPaul Boris reposted thisI am pleased to announce the expansion of my role with Murray Mentor, Inc. as I will be responsible for Strategic Market Development for Murray going forward. For those of you not familiar with Murray, Murray provides an AI-powered software product that captures, synthesizes, and leverages deep tacit knowledge for manufacturing companies. While most industrial software companies continue to emphasize explicit knowledge, the knowledge and data found in documents, manuals, and digital systems of record, the more critical knowledge, tacit or tribal knowledge, walks out the door as a generation of skilled workers retires. Murray addresses this challenge, along with the long held promise of dramatically driving productivity improvement in manufacturing, through one of the most innovative products I have ever come across in my many years in the industrial software space. Over the next several weeks, I will be highlighting challenges and opportunities that I see for both manufacturers and industrial software providers. Included in this analysis will be short references to Murray’s position relating to these issues. I hope you will find it of interest.
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Paul Boris liked thisPaul Boris liked thisThe New American Manufacturing Renaissance doesn't slow down. When it's built from the community by the community and for the community the work speaks and the #MFGFam doesn't need a cosign... #Atlanta. TGR Foundation team. Tiger Woods Learning Labs. Atlanta Technical College. High schools in Newnan. Pipeline work. The kind that changes family trees. #Cincinnati. CBT Company More Than MFG Expo. 2,000 people. Students who walked in skeptical — left with a career plan. #Everett, Washington. Machinists Institute Launch 2026. 23,000 sq ft across from Boeing's factory floor. Keynote. Room went quiet...the erupted. That's how you know. S/O IAM District Lodge 751 Full interviews and recaps from every stop dropping starting Thursday. FREE recruiting and retention webinars are LIVE! And we're NOT SLOWING DOWN. TOMORROW — United Nations address UN Science and Technology Forum. May 6th, 1:15pm ET. Worker-centered innovation for resilient communities. How post-industrial cities reclaim their industrial legacy on their own terms. SDG 9. SDG 11 Register now: bit.ly/IPA-UN May 12–14 — Mechanism National Gathering. #Philadelphia. Makers, manufacturers, educators, community leaders — three days building the future of local production. Philly is personal. 🎟 https://lnkd.in/gs-tznVM Atlanta to the United Nations. Same message the whole way. Genius is equally distributed. Opportunity is not — yet. → DrewCroweMFG.com #NAMR #ManufacturingRenaissance #CourageGap #NewCollarLeadership #MFGHustle #TGRFoundation
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Paul Boris liked thisPaul Boris liked thisYour Manager Job Description Is Already Obsolete Monday: pipeline review meeting. Tuesday: pulling CRM updates to build the forecast. Wednesday: prepping the team meeting deck and running the big deal review Thursday: updating the forecast. Friday: following up on action items from the week to make sure everyone did their job. Then you do it again. If that's your week, I'm not trying to be harsh…but AI just took your job description. Let me clarify…Not your job…your job description. The Coinbase headlines dropped yesterday, 14% of their workforce gone, "pure managers" eliminated. Jack Dorsey did the same thing at Block earlier this year, cutting 40% and publishing a manifesto declaring hierarchy dead. Microsoft has been folding manager layers quietly for months. These aren't isolated decisions. They're a pattern, and they're a signal directed straight at anyone who manages the way I described above. If your value is coordination, you're exposed. But the answer isn't to defend the role. It's to evolve past it. There are three levels to this. I’m calling them the Three Cs. 1. THE COORDINATOR manages information. Runs the meeting that could have been a dashboard. Tracks what's in the pipeline. Owns the deck. This role is already gone. Gong, Clari, Claude and a dozen other tools do it faster and more accurately than any human running a manual review cycle. 2. THE COACH changes behavior. Knows why an AE keeps losing late-stage deals, can name the specific moment it happens, and has a development plan in place before the pattern repeats. Teams with structured coaching cultures run 20% higher quota attainment. That's not a soft metric that's meaningful uplift. This role matters and always will. But there's a third level, and it's where the best sales leaders are heading. 3. THE CONDUCTOR does everything a coach does and also commands the technology layer their team operates on. They build agents that handle the coordinator work automatically. They write prompts that surface deal risk before a rep sees it. They use AI to free up their own time so they can spend more of it on humans, not less. A coordinator runs logistics. A coach develops one rep at a time. A conductor brings humans and agents into harmony and produces output none of them could deliver alone. Here's what's coming, and it sounds radical until it doesn't: the sales manager of the near future won't just manage human workers. They'll manage a mix of humans and AI agents. If you can't direct, prompt, and build with AI tools, you'll be behind the people who can. The Coinbase headlines aren't about Coinbase. They're a leading indicator pointed at every manager who hasn't made this transition yet. Coordinator: already gone. Coach: essential, non-negotiable. Conductor: where this is heading. Which one are you becoming?
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Paul Boris liked thisHappens all too often. Good thing we're doing something about it. Preserve that knowledge before it's gone for good!Paul Boris liked thisFriday: "Happy retirement." Monday: "Where do I even start?" A senior architect walks out the door. With them goes: - 30 years of project histories - Every client relationship - The building codes they knew by heart - Design decisions that saved millions - Lessons from failures nobody documented What they leave behind: - A sticky note: "Good luck. Passwords are in the drawer." - Locked filing cabinets - A clean desk No knowledge base. No documentation system. No handover protocol. The new hire stares at a blank screen. Three decades of institutional knowledge, gone in a retirement party. Every architecture firm is one resignation away from starting over. And almost none of them are doing anything about it. --- Follow AEC Insider for weekly intelligence on what's changing in AEC.
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Paul Boris liked thisPaul Boris liked thisEvery week I talk to leaders who are genuinely excited about what AI can do. Yet, 95% of organizations currently have zero return on AI investment (Source: MIT Review). Those two things can't both be true for long. When I dig into why the pilot worked but the rollout stalled, the answer is almost always the same: there's no coordination layer. Agents making decisions that systems downstream can't act on. Outputs with no clear owner. People filling gaps nobody planned for. This is an architecture problem. And one we intend to fix. I felt so strongly about this, I made for you both a video and I wrote about it. Link in comments.
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Augmented reality display system
Filed US20210103146A1
A personal display device for displaying virtual images to a wearer. The personal display device includes a frame having a right temple section, a left temple section, a right rear section, a left rear section, a right eye see-through section, and a left eye see-through section; a projection display device connected to the frame for projecting an image to the wearer; at least one waveguide stack module connected to the frame for propagating image-bearing light beams along a length of the at…
A personal display device for displaying virtual images to a wearer. The personal display device includes a frame having a right temple section, a left temple section, a right rear section, a left rear section, a right eye see-through section, and a left eye see-through section; a projection display device connected to the frame for projecting an image to the wearer; at least one waveguide stack module connected to the frame for propagating image-bearing light beams along a length of the at least one waveguide stack module, the at least one waveguide stack module being configured to receive the image from the projection display device and detected touch motions of the wearer sensed by the touchpad including sensing directions of the touch motions of the wearer.
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