Jason’s Blog
Notes on manufacturing leadership, AI applications and ongoing learning. This page lists English posts only; Chinese posts are on the 中文部落格.
Doing It Isn't Enough — It Has to Be in Place
· Jason Hung · en
Quality management has one bottom line: never ship a product that has a problem. Green means in place; red means only that the operator feels he did it well. How it feels doesn't count.
The Wishing Well Was Always There — the Bill Just Arrived Late
· Jason Hung · en
A MES support engineer once told me: don't treat your system vendor like a wishing well. Half of that was true. But what AI agents actually change is not whether software can be built — it's when the price shows up.
Inventory Isn't Arithmetic — It's Time
· Jason Hung · en
On the surface inventory is arithmetic. Underneath, it's time. From quote to delivery an order has exactly two windows where you can still act — everything after that is cleanup.
Factory AI Adoption: The Data Foundation Is the First Barrier — Using AI Itself to Tackle Legacy Equipment Protocol Challenges
· Jason Hung · en
Most enterprises prioritize upper-layer AI applications such as AI Agents, intelligent scheduling and quality prediction. Yet many projects stall mid-way — the real bottleneck is not the AI algorithm, but the collection of high-quality underlying data.