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Why Does Stark Design for the Factory Before the Demo?

Johannes Schaback says Stark designs for the factory before it designs for a demo. Every program optimizes for time to market and for production readiness, and those two goals compete.

If the only goal is speed, the team can end up with something it can show and then cannot build in volume. A Formula One car is his comparison: it can be ready quickly, and almost nobody produces it in large numbers. Stark moves manufacturability earlier, which he calls shifting left, so that problem is not left as debt to fix after the prototype exists. Component choice is part of the same decision. The team does not always buy the most advanced camera. It buys one that is very good and can be purchased in large numbers.

Production readiness is a design constraint from the start of the program, not a step that waits until the demonstration is over.

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European Defense Sovereignty Starts in the Factory: Stark’s Uwe Horstmann and Johannes Schaback ·

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