Fail Fast Vs Fail Smart - Lessons Learnt
summary
Claims that NI Vision Builder and the NI ecosystem let teams prototype fast and decide early, backed by 4–5 installations at a major Indian automotive OEM and engineering impact awards (2014, 2015). Concrete builds include a multi‑camera machine‑vision seat inspection that fails on the shop floor, a working IoT hardware product abandoned for business reasons, and a PCB vision solution that is technically solid but not market fit. Practices promoted: double failure rate to increase success, CI/unit testing, and SaaS stacks (Google Workspace, Jira, Bitbucket) to fail smart.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:20Personal journey with failure
- 2:47Industry examples
- 9:13Early machine vision failures
- 12:06Fail fast and NI benefits
- 13:52Vision error-proofing success
- 15:37Doubling failure rate
- 15:59Understanding fail smart
- 17:24SpaceX and Slack examples
- 18:07Structuring the business
- 19:52Diverse roles and mindset
- 20:54SaaS tools for failure
- 21:58Moving back to USA
- 23:23Remote operations frameworks
- 24:08Internalizing CI
- 25:12Scale-up challenges
- 25:33Closing remarks
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