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New topologies, evolved solution-market fit will define manufacturing AI in 2023

January 10, 2023
Blog December 2, 2022

Remembering AKR: The Prof AK Rao Memorial Lectures

The Prof. A. K. Rao Memorial Lectures are hosted annually by the ISAMPE, the Indian…

Musings November 13, 2022

The genius of the Kinder Egg

I first chanced upon a Kinder Egg (“kinder überraschung”) when in Germany in the fall…

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Modernizing the genba to demystify the factory floor

October 31, 2022
Family October 24, 2022

Diwali: How far America & India have come….

Today is Diwali, or Deepavali as we called it in Southern India where I grew…

Business October 11, 2022

The brilliance of single-piece flow: The allegory of the cakes

(Originally published on Oct 11, 2022 on the Drishti blog) This past weekend, I had…

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Getting workers to collaborate in problem solving the right way vs the fast way

September 12, 2022
Books September 3, 2022

The rise and fall of the Punjab empire

To us South Indians, the Punjabi is a gregarious, bombastic, larger than life person. Big,…

Education August 17, 2022

To earn a PhD? Or, not.

A question that often comes up in conversation with friends, the kids of friends, our….
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  • Dr. Prasad Akella is a serial entrepreneur who has created and commercialized deep tech products that empower humans — in three very different areas: robotics, business social networks, computer vision/AI.
    He is a Fellow of the ASME and the SME and a Stanford PhD, Michigan MBA, and IIT BS.

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