Weekly Insights for Manufacturing Leaders
Practical takes on digital transformation, MES, and AI for metal fabrication. Read by 500+ professionals across Europe.
What You'll Receive
Industry Insights
What's changing in metal fabrication this week, and what it means for your shop.
Practical Guides
Concrete advice you can put to work the same week. No fluff.
From the Field
Written by someone who's been inside 30+ metal shops. Not theory from a desk.
Previous Editions
The Beginning, the Success, and the End of ERP in Metalworking
From MRP in the 1960s to agentic AI in 2026 — an honest story about five generations of ERP, five red flags, and why the model is under pressure.
AI in the Factory: Three Levels in Production
Why off-the-shelf AI agents do not work without the right data structure, and how three levels of AI — answering, doing and building — transform your factory.
Digitalization Is Not a Department — It Is Your Right to Exist
Why digitalization is not an IT hobby but your most important differentiator, plus answers to the five most asked UNS questions from the field.
Unified Namespace: How Metal Companies Escape Their Spaghetti Integrations
Why point-to-point integrations paralyze your factory and how a Unified Namespace as a central hub solves it — from architecture to first steps.
The End of ERP as We Know It
Why you can now build what you need with vibe coding and a Unified Namespace — and when ERP is still the right choice.
Highlights from the First Metaal Connect LIVE of 2026
Deep-dive into Manufacturing Execution Systems and the announcement of ERYXON as open source MES.
What Readers Say
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