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My thoughts exactly. Knowledge transfer in manufacturing / industrial environments is something that I'm working on. NLP applications for digitising documents, recommending the next steps to fix something / do something etc. Building towards the autonomous factory. Supply chain automation. Would love to discuss with people who find these things exciting
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I would +1 this I think the long term best thing we can be doing is documenting the how and why of building, designing, fixing, working with etc... everything
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The ability for a single person to create a technology, digital or otherwise.
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Came here to say that. From what I understand, a lot of nuclear welders retired and because very few projects happened in the past couple of decades, their expertise was not transfered. It is a shame.
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This may not be the type of answer you're looking for but near me insurance companies (AmFam, Sentry, etc) pay extremely well for the area and pay big money to purchase startups
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The problem I've found in this space is the data. I and my colleagues have done consulting work for several insurance companies. I'd love to develop some sick claim processing/auditing software or data management solution for insurance, but it's next to impossible to get visibility into the data they're processing and where the improvement opportunities lie without working there or having an in.
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I'm guessing the cycle is; work at an insurance company, figure out a solution to their problem, ask your boss if you can work on that solution, be told no, quit and start a startup to do it, sell it to that company, get bought by that company. This sounds complicated but remember that there is little downside risk for the insurance company that buys you. If you don't make a good product, then you or your investors are out the cash, and they are out $0. This is probably 99% of cases. If you do make a good product, then they can just buy it later when the $ is worth less! (There is also a risk that a competitor buys you, I guess.)
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What kinds of acquisitions? Like what product categories from your knowledge?
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Improving the core of the power grid to prepare for the near-doubling of power demand that will occur when everyone drives EVs, and also making the grid more maintainable, more robust, and easier to fix if damaged by anything from mundane causes to EMPs. Some thoughts: * Equipment to allow existing runs to be upgraded to higher voltages or even HVDC while being compatible on the other side with existing equipment and grid voltages. * Smaller more modular cheaper substation equipment that can be slotted in and rapidly replaced, eventually to replace the mega-transformers and stuff that are very hard to physically ship places. * Lower cost methods of stringing new high power transmission lines to bring distant renewable energy to cities. * Protection equipment or techniques to reduce damage from solar storms or EMP, since the power grid is becoming essential to human life to almost the same degree as food. Losing it could cause mass death.
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Machining. No child left without a 5-axis milling machine!
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Titan's of CNC and Haas both have great youtube channels addressing training because of exactly this.
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