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    Precision in the desert: How ancient Egypt mastered engineering millennia before Detroit and Silicon Valley
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The BIG gap in digital twin technology: Assembly operations

December 8, 2021
Blog October 19, 2021

Lean and data: Two journeys on the path to lean leadership

(Originally posted on Oct 19, 2021 on the Drishti blog) It’s not easy to be…

Blog September 22, 2021

Assembly’s future: Reducing the cost of quality even as we improve quality

(Originally posted on Sep 22, 2021 on the Drishti blog) Defect rate benchmarks have been…

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Introducing the “right to affordable repair”

September 15, 2021
Blog September 2, 2021

Humans or automation: For now, it’s both

(Originally posted on Sep 2, 2021 on the Drishti blog) Since the first robot was…

Blog August 18, 2021

Why data drives the next industrial revolution and how it impacts the design process

(Originally posted on Aug 18, 2021 on the Drishti blog) Each industrial revolution — from…

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Thinking long: Prasad Akella on Drishti’s new CEO, Gary Jackson

July 20, 2021
Blog March 16, 2021

Drishti’s manufacturing leadership — and influence — recognized

(Originally posted on Mar 16, 2021 on the Drishti blog) Earlier this week, the National…

Blog February 2, 2021

Part 3: The growing imperative for practical AI

(Originally posted on Feb 2, 2021 on the Drishti blog) In the last of my…

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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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    The Indian rules the American Spelling Bee

    May 29, 2025

    The genius of the Kinder Egg

    By Prasad November 13, 2022

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

    Modernizing the genba to demystify the factory floor

    October 31, 2022

    Diwali: How far America & India have come….

    October 24, 2022

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

    October 11, 2022

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

    September 12, 2022

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