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Tempus Fugit — and the Knowledge Leaves With It

A Roman mosaic says it in two words: tempus fugit. Time flies. The inscription reads as decoration until you stand in front of it long enough to feel its weight. I work at the ungl…

ERP, PLM, drawing libraries — the integration gap that sinks AI projects

There was a number at the VDMA AI summit in Frankfurt today that should stop every project sponsor in the room: as one speaker put it, 70% of AI projects fail due to poor data qual…

From sensor data to decisions — the gap nobody draws on the whiteboard

At the VDMA AI summit in Frankfurt today, someone put up a slide showing "sensor data → AI → decision." Clean arrows, confident boxes. I've spent my career on printed circuit board…

The room had twelve tables. Germany kept sitting at the wrong one.

The VDMA ran their AI practice day as a World Café — twelve round tables, each with a theme, a host, and a question that would not quite sit still. You rotated. You talked. You lis…