- WORKING PAPER 24
The Replaceable Factory
Why autonomous manufacturing is an architecture problem, and why it is already here
- WORKING PAPER 23
The Plant That Does Not Need a Diagnosis
Why modular replacement, not better prediction, is the shortest path to an unmanned plant
- WORKING PAPER 1
The Industrial AI Maintenance Readiness Review
A practical framework for deciding whether maintenance work is ready to execute
- WORKING PAPER 2
The Verification Gap
Why industrial AI can produce answers faster than organizations can safely act on them
- WORKING PAPER 3
Operational Memory
Why plants remember everything and learn almost nothing
- WORKING PAPER 4
Tool Access Is Not Competence
Why industrial agents must be evaluated on workflow, sequencing, and physical reasoning
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From Recommendation to Actuation
An authority ladder for industrial AI
- WORKING PAPER 6
The Maintenance Evidence Loop
Why better maintenance AI must improve both the beginning and the end of work
- WORKING PAPER 7
Why Shutdown Schedules Lie
Why AI optimization cannot compensate for work that was never truly ready
- WORKING PAPER 8
Prediction Is Not Diagnosis
Why industrial AI must connect anomaly detection to mechanisms, evidence, and executable decisions
- WORKING PAPER 9
AI Cannot Outrun Maintenance Maturity
A staged adoption model for agentic maintenance systems
- WORKING PAPER 10
Garbage In, Confidence Out
Why maintenance data quality sets a hard ceiling on what industrial AI can be trusted to say
- WORKING PAPER 11
The Hidden Work Inside Every Work Order
Why the task described is never the job performed, and what that costs
- WORKING PAPER 12
Failure Mechanisms of AI-Assisted Maintenance
A catalogue of how this goes wrong, written by someone who wants it to work
- WORKING PAPER 13
The Materials Gate
Why parts availability is the most common readiness blocker and the least modelled
- WORKING PAPER 14
Who Signs
The human authority boundary, and why it has to be written down before it is tested
- WORKING PAPER 15
When Success Looks Like Nothing Happening
The measurement problem that keeps good maintenance chronically underfunded
- WORKING PAPER 16
The Contractor Package
Readiness for work you are not going to perform yourself
- WORKING PAPER 17
Wrench Time Is a Readiness Metric
Why low tool time is a symptom of the planning system, not the workforce
- WORKING PAPER 18
The Discovery Task
What to do with work that cannot be made ready
- WORKING PAPER 19
The Reprogramming Tax
Why automation is defeated by the cost of changing it, not the cost of buying it
- WORKING PAPER 20
The Coordination Problem
Why industrial AI may create more value around the maintenance job than inside it
- WORKING PAPER 21
What the Registry Cannot Certify
California has licensed AI auditors and ordered onsite verification. The industrial plant is where that regime will be hardest to execute.
- WORKING PAPER 22
The Dangerous Permission Is Write
Why the real industrial AI security problem is corruption of the maintenance record, not command of the machine