This talk is on the future of both engineering tools and manufacturing systems that work together to create a future system of hardware creation / product development. A big piece of the talk is how software analogies can be ported to the world of hardware development, and how my company Plethora is creating this new system of "Adaptive Manufacturing" that is the 21st Century's answer to the assembly line.

1. The Future of Tools
From Idea to Scale
Nick Pinkston
Founder & CEO - Plethora

2. Why care about
hardware?

3. Software is eating the world:
Self-Driving Cars Robotics
DronesBiotech
VR / AR
…but software needs a body!
Connected Devices

4. Iteration is Metabolism
Electrical Civil
MechanicalSoftware
∞ 10 5 1

5. Software Analogies
Test
Deploy
Compile
Debug

6. Meanwhile in
our factories…

7. Model T F150
Nothing has changed!

8. Manufacturing as a Cloud Service

9. Instant Pricing / Feedback Full-Auto Factory
Goal: Make Hardware As Easy As Software

10. Debug

11. Compile

12. Deploy: CNC Milling

13. Test

14. Won’t 3D printers save us all?

15. The Manufacturing Ecology

16. Digitize all the processes!
Additive Subtractive Cast / Form
Post-Process AssemblyInspection

17. Engineering
Tools

18. Text
Text
Software Engineering Tools
Editor: Where you code
Run Time: Where you test code
Repo: Where you find code
Text

19. Design

20. CAD for Everyone, Everywhere

21. Full-Stack CAD

22. Generative Design

23. nTopology

24. Augmented Design

27. Components

28. Part Libraries

29. CAD Repos

31. Reality Ripping: CT Scan

32. Simulate

34. VR Environment Testing

35. VR Product Testing

36. Iterate

37. Design
BuildTest

39. Real Goal:
Make
hardware
as easy
as pizza
delivery

40. Engineering Superpowers

41. THANK YOU!