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Build my print shop's ERP and inspection system under ITAR constraints

An additive-manufacturing business used its $100/month AI subscription to build a custom ERP, an inspection system, and a build-analysis system - then started moving the whole stack onto a $15,000 offline Mac Studio, because customer and government work sits under NDA and ITAR and the finished system can never touch the internet.

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How it works

  1. Build a custom ERP with AI
  2. Build an inspection system
  3. Build a build-analysis system to improve throughput
  4. Port the stack to an offline Mac Studio running a smaller local model

Why it’s worth knowing

A defense-regulated shop used a cloud AI to build the offline systems that will let it stop using the cloud.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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