Independent press coverage and contributed articles featuring Skody AI and the manufacturers we work with.
Alex Lebedev, Co-Founder
Modern Machine Shop
Evan Doran · September 8, 2026
“Plans never survive contact with reality.”
MMS visited Three Sigma Manufacturing in Kent, WA and Yeager Manufacturing Technologies in Winter Park, FL to look at how both shops handle schedule drift — the gap that opens between the morning plan and the actual floor. Neither shop was short on data; both could see what was late. What changed was seeing it early enough to move something.
RobotToday
Alex Lebedev, Co-Founder, Skody AI · June 22, 2026
“Knowing that an order is late is useful. Knowing exactly why — and what to do about it — is far more valuable.”
A breakdown of what actually consumes a late order's lead time. In the worked example, 115.5 hours of remaining production sat inside 698.6 hours of bottleneck queue and 1,031.1 hours of off-shift time — most of the lateness was waiting, not machining.