The author of the passage has founded three innovative companies in the manufacturing sector that focus on machine vision and 3D scanning. They are passionate about product development and have built a team of highly skilled experts. The author has extensive knowledge of various industrial processes and has visited over 400 manufacturing plants in industries such as Aerospace, Military, Automotive, Metal, Food, and Semiconductor. Their strength lies in building a business model around new technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and 3D vision. They have worked as a product owner to develop software for 5 groundbreaking Cyber-Physical systems that were deployed in various manufacturing sectors. These machines used artificial intelligence to automatically generate a robotic solution (program) in real time for unique parts. Some of them were paid back in less than three months.