The Manufacturing Executive AI Agents and Humans: The Future of Factory Teams w/ Karan Talati
Sep 9, 2025
Karan Talati, CEO of First Resonance, shares insights on the integration of AI agents in manufacturing. He discusses the real-world applications of AI in inventory management and quality control, highlighting their ability to streamline processes and reduce errors. Talati emphasizes the importance of human-AI collaboration, revealing how this tech can free up human workers for more complex tasks. He also reflects on the transformative impact of AI in industries like aerospace, where data-driven approaches are reshaping traditional operations.
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SpaceX Shaped A Data-First Manufacturing View
- Karan Talati described his time at SpaceX during rapid scale-up from quarterly to weekly launches.
- He credits cloud and data systems for enabling fast feedback between operations and factory production.
Agents Fill The Information Middle Layer
- Manufacturing is data-rich and suffers from overhead moving information between systems and people.
- Agentic AI can fill the middle layer by retrieving and updating contextual data across factory systems.
Build Narrow Agents For Specific Tasks
- Use specialized agents for narrow tasks like inventory replenishment rather than one monolithic AI.
- Let agents reason over recent data and propose reorders conversationally to avoid blunt, error-prone thresholds.