27 stories tagged manufacturing, newest first.
53 points by gmays | 34 comments
An a16z essay arguing that AI models may soon master hardware design, but the lossy interface between digital designs and physical manufacturing and measurement remains the hard part.
50 points by bookofjoe | 23 comments
New York Times article about how New York City's more than one million street signs are made in the city's sign shop.
42 points by va3ndf | 10 comments
A blog post recounting the design and production of 1,750 programmable PCB name badges for a large Canadian hackathon, including problems encountered.
7 points by JumpCrisscross | 3 comments
Utility Dive news article reporting Hitachi will double US production of small and medium power transformers at a Mississippi facility (10–160 MVA, up to 230 kV).
41 points by barbinbrad | 17 comments
Landing page for Carbon, an open-source manufacturing ERP/MRP/MES/QMS that runs on Postgres on-prem, in a VPC, or air-gapped.
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722 points by sam_bristow | 243 comments
A 2001 California Management Review paper by Nelson Repenning and John Sterman on why process improvement programs often fail and how to create and sustain them.
504 points by raffael_de | 319 comments
Mercedes-Benz press release announcing the start of large-scale production of its electric axial flux motor in Germany.
701 points by buildbot | 282 comments
Noctua blog post explaining why releasing black versions of its PC fans takes so long; the capture shows only a Vercel security checkpoint.
337 points by scrlk | 288 comments
An article on The Wave engineering site about LEGO's 0.002mm manufacturing tolerance specification and what it means for manufacturing practices.
561 points by pie_flavor | 659 comments
A visual guide to industrial processes that can no longer be permitted in California, and the grandfathered facilities that still operate them.
358 points by microflash | 120 comments
Homepage of Magical Mushroom Company, a European producer of mycelium-based packaging made at industrial scale.
775 points by sberens | 368 comments
A newsletter post by a software engineer recounting lessons from manufacturing and shipping the first 500 units of Brighter, a high-brightness lamp funded via crowdfunding.
441 points by voxleone | 607 comments
Washington Post business article on how US investment is flowing into an AI boom rather than a manufacturing revival.
424 points by LorenDB | 399 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that startup InventWood is preparing to mass-produce a densified engineered wood claimed to be stronger than steel.
521 points by putzdown | 697 comments
Blog post by Molson Hart arguing that the April 2025 US tariffs underestimate how hard it is to bring manufacturing back to America.
660 points by taubek | 903 comments
A Twitter thread by Derek Guy (@dieworkwear), shown via Thread Reader, breaking down how much it costs to manufacture a pair of Nike shoes in Asia.
345 points by apokryptein | 98 comments
A long-form Studio Notes article from St. Louis Art Supply on the history of Japanese pencil manufacturing during its golden age, 1952 to 1967.
411 points by mhb | 198 comments
A Construction Physics essay by Brian Potter explaining why designing and manufacturing jet engines is so difficult.
485 points by arbesman | 220 comments
WBUR radio feature and article touring Zildjian, the 400-year-old cymbal maker based in Norwell, Massachusetts.
345 points by elsewhen | 526 comments
An X (Twitter) post by Taylor Ogan about the size of BYD's factory; the post content did not load.
759 points by bswud | 422 comments
A Works in Progress Issue 16 article by Javid Lakha on how lab-grown diamonds became purer and far cheaper than mined diamonds.
407 points by chmaynard | 165 comments
A Construction Physics article by Brian Potter on how 50,000-ton forging presses, such as Alcoa's, were designed and built.
339 points by juliangamble | 494 comments
Construction Physics essay by Brian Potter on how the US ramped up aircraft manufacturing to build about 300,000 airplanes during World War II.
322 points by parpfish | 240 comments
Ask HN thread where the poster reflects on the hidden complexity of making everyday items like a spool of wire and asks others for similar examples.
712 points by jtsnow | 695 comments
Dwell article examining why most modern sofas, especially direct-to-consumer models, are poorly made.
439 points by ahaucnx | 171 comments
AirGradient blog post by Achim Haug sharing lessons and tips from making plastic injection molds for its air quality monitors with Chinese mold makers.
407 points by thunderbong | 280 comments
Manufacturing Dive brief reporting that Lego broke ground on its first US manufacturing facility, a $1 billion plant in Richmond, Virginia.