[hn30000]

I consult for manufacturers and fabrication shops. In my experience there aren’t really centralized repositories of info for this stuff like there is in tech. It took me a while to get my head around it, and many years of talking to people and visiting their facilities, to realize that knowledge just doesn’t seem to be organized the same way in manufacturing as it is in tech. Most of the good stuff I’ve learned through conversations with guys running these facilities, not through some central knowledge base. I’d love to be proven wrong though if someone has a good set of resources out these...

[quartesixte]

It doesn’t help that the knowledge in this industry is 1) held by people who statistically are less online than software engineers 2) are closely guarded “trade secrets” (job security!) 3) is in one of those “is more art than science” fields where the knowledge gained is hyperspecific