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title: Manufacturing in the AI Era | Pull Systems Blog | Henry Furman
description: Henry Furman is Founder and Chief Product Officer at Pull Systems. A corporate innovation expert and product leader, Henry's time spent embedded within Porsche AG resulted in the fundamental product strategy for Pull Systems. Prior to founding the company, Henry helped start Los Angeles-based venture studio UP.Labs and built multiple energy/industrial good sector startups at BCG Digital Ventures. He studied at Yale.
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# Henry Furman
Henry Furman is Founder and Chief Product Officer at Pull Systems. A corporate innovation expert and product leader, Henry's time spent embedded within Porsche AG resulted in the fundamental product strategy for Pull Systems. Prior to founding the company, Henry helped start Los Angeles-based venture studio UP.Labs and built multiple energy/industrial good sector startups at BCG Digital Ventures. He studied at Yale.
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# Pull Systems Blog: Manufacturing for the AI Era
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[](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/20b-advantage-chinese-electric-cars-quality-strategy)
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##### [The Hidden $20B Manufacturing Advantage of Chinese Electric Cars](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/20b-advantage-chinese-electric-cars-quality-strategy)
When people talk about the dominance of Chinese electric cars, they point to batteries, supply chains, or government policy. But a quieter, more decisive factor is buried in the warranty data. Chinese...
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[](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/china-jidoka-leapfrogged-the-world)
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##### [How China Leapfrogged the World: A New Interpretation of Jidoka](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/china-jidoka-leapfrogged-the-world)
Quality used to mean discipline. In the 1970s, Toyota showed the world that better cars did not come from building faster or cheaper, but from empowering line workers to slow down. This was the essenc...
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[](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/why-npi-process-needs-quality-ai)
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##### [The First-Year Launch Problem: Why Your Quality's NPI Process Needs AI](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/why-npi-process-needs-quality-ai)
Every product launch is a gamble. You are taking something that has lived in design files, prototypes, and controlled tests, and releasing it into the wild. In that first year's NPI process, reality a...
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[](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/reducing-cost-of-poor-quality-copq-with-ai)
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##### [Quality Pays You Twice: Reducing Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) with AI](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/reducing-cost-of-poor-quality-copq-with-ai)
Once upon a time, “Made in China” was a warning label. You could count on rough edges, both literal and metaphorical. Panels that did not quite fit. Electronics that failed early. Software that lagged...
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[](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/quality-done-right-ai-in-industrial-automation)
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##### [Quality Done Right: What BYD & SpaceX Teach Us About AI in Manufacturing](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/quality-done-right-ai-in-industrial-automation)
We tend to think of quality as an inspection step. The gate at the end of the production line that catches mistakes before they reach a customer. That is the old frame. It is the frame that made sense...
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[](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/cqi-continuous-quality-improvement-manufacturing-advantage)
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##### [Why Quality Decides the Race: CQI's Advantage in Manufacturing](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/cqi-continuous-quality-improvement-manufacturing-advantage)
In global manufacturing, it is easy to think the contest will be decided by price. China can build for less, so the story goes, and that is the story’s end. But that is not quite right. Price is a sym...
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[](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/process-knowledge-and-the-soul-of-manufacturing)
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##### [Tacit Knowledge in Manufacturing: Preserving the "Soul" of the Factory](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/process-knowledge-and-the-soul-of-manufacturing)
There is a kind of knowledge that rarely makes it into books, let alone balance sheets. It is not the design of the machine or the blueprint of the product. It is the tacit knowledge, unwritten know-h...
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[](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/total-quality-management-tqm-revolution)
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##### [The First Quality Revolution: The Rise of Total Quality Management (TQM)](https://resources.pull.systems/blog/total-quality-management-tqm-revolution)
The first quality revolution was not a single moment. It was a slow build of ideas, techniques, and cultural shifts that rewired how the world thought about making things. In the early 20th century, q...
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