Software Defined Manufacturing

Humans in the loop by choice — not by necessity.

Traditional manufacturing keeps humans in the loop because nothing else can see across it: no digital thread, long lead times, opacity as a way of life. Software-defined manufacturing inverts that. The operation becomes a software system with a physical actuator — humans can always observe, interact and intervene, transparently — but they no longer have to touch the physical world to change it end to end.

Dev, stage, production — for the factory itself. This is the Digital Triplets methodology applied to manufacturing.

The deck, annotated

The foundation underneath

Software-defined manufacturing is one application of a more general instrument: the Digital Triplets methodology — record reality, understand it, rehearse it, then affect it. Read that one next; everything here is a special case of it.