announcing justmanufacture.com

On-demand fabrication services that save you time and deliver straight to your doorstep.

by dhanush baktha, the founder

The Age of Abundance

Picture a not-so-distant future where the question of "having enough" simply ceases to exist. Basic needs—housing, food, healthcare—are all readily available, thanks to exponential advancements in robotics, AI, and decentralized supply chains. Freed from the grind of scarcity, individuals can focus on what truly matters: innovation, exploration, and building the next frontier.

At JustManufacture.com, we see ourselves as a building block of that future. We're architecting a next-generation platform—akin to "AWS for Manufacturing"—that accelerates humanity toward an era of abundance. The barriers to making physical goods should be as low as spinning up a new server in the cloud. This will also enable a new generation of solopreneurs to build their products with us and sell it. By integrating Robotics and AI into metal fabrication (for now), we aim to reduce costs, increase output, and eliminate inefficiencies that have long shackled traditional production.

Kickstarting the Next Generation of Factories

These aren't our grandparents' (awesome but inefficient) factories. We're designing smaller, faster, and more flexible facilities that specialize in high-mix, high-volume manufacturing, delivering a significant leap in efficiency. Our goal? To give businesses—regardless of size—a rapid, cost-effective way to turn concepts into tangible products.

Here's how we get there:

1. Now: Network of SW Enhanced Factories

Our first step is building a network of on-demand factories, all coordinated by AI-driven software. This system handles everything from procurement to production planning, enabling instant quotes, instant DFM feedback, and precise lead times. By doing just this first step, we're already delivering a major upgrade in customer experience. With this we're hoping to take on more orders, with less human intervention from our side.

2. By End of 2025: Labor-Intensive Tasks Performed by Robots In-House

As demand scales, we'll introduce in-house robotics task fulfillment—welding, polishing, fettling, and more—on an experimental R&D basis. This means part of manufacturing happens in-house, complementing the bulk of production that still takes place in our hyperlocal partner factories. By leveraging the data from the network, we can refine these specialized tasks, making the entire production pipeline more efficient.

3. Giga Factory

With R&D and learnings from Step 2, we'll establish a fully integrated, large-scale "Giga Factory." This single facility will incorporate multiple aspects of high-mix, high-volume manufacturing under one roof, driven end-to-end by robotics and AI. It's the next level of parallel manufacturing capacity, where we can ramp up volume without compromising on quality or speed.

4. Optimizing Network Factories

Finally, we replicate the Giga Factory's advanced automation into other factories, bringing full-scale capabilities to any region/factory. Crucially, the technology we developed in R&D—robotics, AI orchestration, and process optimizations—will be extended to our partner factories as well. Everyone in our network benefits from the same cutting-edge tech, democratizing manufacturing and enabling "infinite" parallel capacity across countless nodes.

Once we are done with the above steps, imagine a bunch of network factories and our factories working together globally, and smartly managing an order and deliver on-time, faster and high quality parts globally.

Future Factory Concept

Future Factory Concept

What This Could Look Like in Practice?

Once systems are fully implemented, we are thinking multi-fold improvements in the following areas:

  • Up to 6x Reduction in Labor Costs
  • 1.5x–2.5x Increase in Throughput per Shift
  • 24/7 Operations
  • Lower Costs Passed On to Customers
  • Rapid Quoting & Faster Turnaround

Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS): Infinite Parallel Capacity

Not every company wants the burden of managing an entire factory. That's where our MaaS model comes in. We handle the full stack—from raw material sourcing to finished product delivery—while you focus on design, marketing, and scaling your business. Powered by both our network factories and our robotic in-house capabilities, MaaS unlocks near-infinite parallel capacity: if one factory reaches its limit, another seamlessly picks up the slack.

China's Strategy: A Lesson in Vision

A decade ago, China began an aggressive push into robotics—despite having relatively cheap labor. That move looked counterintuitive at first, but fast-forward to now: you can buy a 12kg payload, 1.4-meter reach robot from China for around $3,600, which is roughly a single factory worker's annual salary in India. These robots last about half as long as premium models, but at a fraction of the cost. The payoff? China now operates 1.75 million industrial robots, over half of the global total. By contrast, the U.S. has ~350,000, and India just 40,000.

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The speed of robot adoption in China vs other countries

China's approach underscores a universal truth: the future belongs to those who invest in automation and AI at scale. As the U.S. grapples with high costs and India lags behind in robotics adoption, China's model serves as both inspiration and warning: invest heavily in advanced manufacturing capabilities—or risk being left behind.

Building Towards the Future

JustManufacture is more than a fabrication service. It's part of a broader move toward an on-demand, automated world—one in which tools of production are as accessible as your smartphone. In a future defined by abundance, the barriers to making physical goods should be as low as spinning up a new server in the cloud.

By harnessing Robotics, AI, and an ever-growing global network of factories, we aim to do for manufacturing what the internet did for information: make it universally accessible and affordable. Let's build the future together—one autonomous factory at a time.

Companies start in garages all the time. We are in that stage today. Come say hi at our "garage" in Coimbatore. We are enabling the human race to reach the age of abundance.

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