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Service Design Case Study: What Engineering Needs That a Feature List Can’t Give Them When your product is a promise of service — and that promise has a 24‑hour clock on it — what engineering receives at the end of concept development matters more than most teams realize. A feature list alone can’t capture the…
Dianna Deeney interviews Keven Wang from UnitX about today’s AI in factories and his vision for the future.
It’s incredibly frustrating when your team faces the same exact problems over and over again. You spend months untangling a complex project issue, only to discover someone two cubicles down solved the exact same thing three years ago. This continuous cycle of rediscovery isn’t happening because your team is careless. It’s happening because most organizational…
-The difference between a system that learns and one that simply trudges forward A story I heard recently has stayed with me. A new owner takes over a facility. He’s hands-on, engaged, clearly different from what came before. One of the first things he notices: the break room refrigerator has been broken for weeks. He…
Dianna Deeney interviews Keven Wang from UnitX about today’s AI in factories and his vision for the future.
You’ve been there. You walk into a design review, a planning session, or a phase gate meeting. You’re ready to contribute, to challenge, to solve. But within minutes, you realize: the decision was already made. The room is a stage, the discussion a script, and you’re just an audience member. This isn’t just frustrating. It’s…