If you want to revolutionize manufacturing, you need to open a large number of small job shops each specializing in a different kind of work, then do applied re

If you want to revolutionize manufacturing, you need to open a large number of small job shops each specializing in a different kind of work, then do applied research and engineering in this real world environment. Step one is making the shops successful, step two is throwing a bunch of geniuses into the room who can help the people who understand what's needed build interesting new technologies. Large existing manufacturing firms with the kind of money to do this can't get out of their own way, and will never be a source of innovation. Small companies don't have the funds to throw at maintaining a staff of genius engineers and researchers. Most outsiders with access to capital looking at innovating in the space probably don't even appreciate the difference between a job shop and an OEM, and are likely to lose lots of cash on projects headed by former OEM enterprise middle managers who exclusively have experience getting in the way of production and wasting money. I'd love to be part of a highly funded team of smart people whose job was to reinvent manufacturing in a practical environment.