About

I study complex industrial systems. Specifically, I study why plants produce less than they should, why schedules break, and where small changes create disproportionate economic impact.

This journal is a working notebook. Each entry records a pattern observed on the floor, a mechanism worth naming, or a decision rule worth testing. The entries are organized around three structural dimensions: throughput, reliability, and leverage.

I build digital twins of manufacturing facilities. I model reality before money gets spent. The tools find capacity that executives didn't know existed and build the business case to capture it.

The observations here come from protein plants, bakeries, beverage lines, frozen food facilities, and dairy operations. The patterns repeat across all of them. The specifics change. The physics don't.

Jared Spencer
Designing Factories that Think