When the buyer asks an AI instead of a search engine
Industrial buyers are starting to ask assistants, not search boxes. What that changes for a supplier's website, what it does not, and what we did to ours.
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Industrial buyers are starting to ask assistants, not search boxes. What that changes for a supplier's website, what it does not, and what we did to ours.
Beitrag lesenEigene Größenschätzung einer Berufsgruppe, die kein Berufscode erfasst, jede Zahl mit ihrer Konfidenzstufe.
The UK posts about 900 new application engineer adverts a month against a 27,200 base. What continuous re-hiring of a hard-to-define role really signals.
Beitrag lesenUK application engineer pay barely varies by domain, so headcount is the whole map. Three domains hold 41.7% of it. A tour of a top-heavy market.
Beitrag lesenAround 27,200 people in the UK do a job that official statistics cannot find. Here is what happens when a role spreads across sixteen occupation codes.
Beitrag lesenWas der Tag eines Anwendungstechnikers wirklich bringt und wo die Aufträge stocken.
A machine knife order is three dimensions, a steel, a hardness and an edge. Most enquiries carry four of the six. Here is the full specification.
Beitrag lesenAn RFQ looks like a document. It is closer to a scattered set of claims, each hiding somewhere else. How engineers read one, and how software should.
Beitrag lesenAn application engineer's week holds fifteen different jobs. Follow the orders instead of the diary and it collapses to five, all of them specification.
Beitrag lesenWie wir messen, was niemand zählt, und welche Regeln die Zahlen ehrlich halten.
A bandsaw catalogue runs to hundreds of variants. The choice comes down to three questions and one rule about teeth. Here is the published maths.
Beitrag lesenNo occupation code, no analyst report, no number to borrow. How we sized the UK application engineer market by triangulation, and kept it honest.
Beitrag lesenEntscheidungen aus dem Bau von Kabaido, vom Verankern eines Modells bis zum Rechnen in Pence.
A clean plasma part and an evening of grinding dross differ by three numbers per material and thickness. Where they come from and why they drift.
Beitrag lesenA metre of balustrade looks like a price per metre. It is a structure with a load case, and the load case moves the price. The working, in order.
Beitrag lesenA soft jaw enquiry looks like two words and a chuck size. The serration, the jaw envelope and the material are all implied. How a seller reads one.
Beitrag lesenA general AI model knows what a milling cutter is. It does not know your milling cutter. What it takes to ground a model in a real industrial domain.
Beitrag lesenBinary floating point cannot hold a tidy decimal exactly. Charming in a tutorial, less so on a 4,000-line quote. A short defence of integer money.
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