Lethal Ventures is planning a 5-week factory roadshow leading up to @reindsummit. We're going to visit 100 factories across the Rust Belt. Route below 👇 DM me if you have any factories we should hit. We're going to capture as much content as possible to share with you all. Week 1: Pennsylvania Industrial Core Base city: Pittsburgh, PA Nearby Factory Towns: Erie, Johnstown, Altoona Week 2: Ohio Industrial Corridor Base city: Cleveland, OH Nearby Factory Towns: Akron, Canton, Toledo, Lorain Week 3: Indiana Southern Michigan Base city: Fort Wayne, IN Nearby Factory Towns: South Bend, Elkhart, Kokomo, Muncie Week 4: Illinois Wisconsin Industrial Belt Base city: Chicago, IL Nearby Factory Towns: Rockford, Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha Week 5: Final Push to Detroit Base city: Detroit, MI Nearby Factory Towns: Flint, Saginaw, Dearborn, Warren

Sense MFG works on almost everything even Miller electric welders

first time in Oklahoma first Sense on a welder LETS GO!

@danielmitchell made magic happen this week at the shop! It was awesome to host him for his first ever visit to Oklahoma. Absolute legend 💪🏼

the best kind of email to get: > we ask customer for feedback > production manager emails back saying how sense has helped > owner sees email and asks to buy more devices to ~3x their install base build solutions that create real value value sells itself

Successful day in Iowa with our new Head of Business Development at Sense. 4x shop visits: 2x metal fab, 1x injection molding, 1x machine shop 4x Industries: Agriculture, automotive, furniture, and traffic safety 3x of the visits were unplanned, cold walk-ins. Unmatched welcoming nature here with the folks in Iowa. 1x: stray cat

Ripping customer visits in Iowa and found this little gal in the middle of the highway, found a new home for her down the street at a local farm

Shop lounge this morning with @RealNickBarth

throw sensemfg.com on there for affordable CNC machine monitoring!

Botics Announces New Facility in Tiffin - Develop Seneca County developsenecacounty.org/blog…

More machine shops should name their machines. Got to meet Cyclops, Maverick, Shredder, Cheech, and Chong this morning

this started as an april fools joke in our Sense team meeting now... we’re launching it… think it’ll be a hit? (the online scratcher is a banger either way) monitor 5 machines for 60 days you pay for 4 devices - we cover the 5th if it doesn’t pay for itself, send it back install takes ~15 min per machine. any make/model.

Aerospace CNC shop: Sense notified 4 times in 6 weeks after installation that a 24/7 machine was down midday on the weekend and was able to drive in to get it running again. Recovered unplanned downtime ✅ Construction & trucking cnc shop: “minimum ~10% production efficiency increase across Sense outfitted machines” just a month after installation Two mini case studies from check-ins with new Sense customers this week. No better feeling than seeing your product deliver real, measurable ROI within 6 weeks of deployment

OP says they spent 3 months “searching” for a supplier who could make this in America we found at least two in <12 hours the first response came in 20 minutes (lol) and all it took was a few text messages should we just… make the American version ourselves? if we did it, 100% of proceeds would to putting real made in USA flags inside real factories across the country because that’s what reindustrialization *actually* looks like

Most industrial machine monitoring is designed for large enterprises. High costs, rigid 10-device minimums, multi-year contracts. Small and mid-sized manufacturers, the backbone of the supply chain, are locked out. Takton built Sense Manufacturing to change that. Affordable machine monitoring that starts at one device. Approximately 30% lower total cost in year one, up to 70% lower in subsequent years compared to competitors. The team initially evaluated InfluxDB. It performed well for high-frequency data across a limited number of streams, but couldn't deliver on their production requirements: ingesting data from thousands of devices, each reporting power and vibration a few times per minute. They also wanted to avoid stack fragmentation. Their first product ran on Supabase using standard SQL and Postgres. Adding InfluxDB would mean maintaining a second query language and storage paradigm for a small team. Why they chose Tiger Data: ▪ Built on Postgres—kept a single SQL-based stack ▪ Designed for high-rate data ingestion from thousands of devices ▪ Tiger Cloud offloaded operational burden from a two-engineer team ▪ Hypertables provided automatic partitioning for reliable ingestion at scale Two months from first commit to devices live in customer facilities. One pilot customer's CNC machine failed after Sense flagged anomalous vibration readings for four days, but notifications weren't enabled. The failure cost $50,000 and three months of downtime. With alerts on, it would have been a $3,000 part change. How this startup shipped production IoT devices in 60 days, covered in this article by Farbod Moghaddam, CTO & Co-founder, Sense Manufacturing Inc: tsdb.co/yaaa0rao

building fast & affordable MFG tech is made 100x easier when you have fast & affordable providers in your stack thank you @michaelfreedman @acoustik and team for being our easy #1 choice for time-series data check out @FarbTheBuilder's interview with tigerdata 👇

Machine-side cup holders and shirts ready for a Sense customer visit 🛜

put toilet water on it

I spent 6 years as 1 of 1000 engineers doing IoT R&D never knowing the direct impact of what we were doing. ~8 months of working at Takton and the impact is crystal clear. A few weeks ago a Sense customer noticed the platform alerted them 3 days before a $50k failure that could’ve been a $3k maintenance visit. SO much potential in the mfg space for folks willing to get hands on.

first queso congress in the books @BarrioTacos_ knows ball and @Glavin_ID knows print

See you Mar 25th my reindustrialize friends