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Kunal Singh
Founder & CEO
The manufacturing industry is at an inflection point. For decades, progress meant automation — replacing human hands with robotic ones, doing the same work faster and cheaper. But that era is ending.
The Next Wave
The companies that will define the next generation of manufacturing aren’t just automating old processes. They’re rethinking what’s possible when you combine:
- Deep materials science — understanding matter at a fundamental level
- Precision engineering — building machines that operate at tolerances previous generations couldn’t imagine
- Embedded intelligence — software that doesn’t just control machines, but understands them
Why Integration Matters
The supply chain model — where design, fabrication, and assembly happen in different companies, on different continents — was optimized for a world of stable, high-volume production. But the future demands adaptability.
When your research lab, your factory floor, and your AI team share the same building, iteration cycles collapse from months to days.
This isn’t a theoretical argument. It’s how we work at Meltred.
What Changes
When you own the full stack — from material to machine to intelligence — you can:
- Prototype in hours, not weeks
- Learn from every production run, feeding data back into design
- Build things that were previously impossible, because you’re not constrained by what existing suppliers can provide
The future of manufacturing isn’t just smarter factories. It’s a fundamentally different relationship between thinking and making.