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Akshat Thirani and the useful art of being wrong
A home-energy experiment took Akshat Thirani from Northwestern to Shenzhen, then back to the factory floor. The company he co-founded, Amper, grew by paying attention to the problems its first idea had missed.
Brad Bullington’s Long Bet on the Physical World
Before factory software, Brad Bullington worked through disk drives, LEDs and open networks. At Amper, that career became a playbook for turning stubborn physical systems into useful data.
Amper Technologies
Amper Technologies is a Chicago-based industrial IoT company that helps manufacturers see and improve what happens on their shop floors in real time. Its FactoryOS platform pairs non-invasive sensors that clip onto any machine - regardless of age or brand and install in about ten minutes - with AI-driven analytics that track machine utilization, OEE, downtime, labor and job performance. Founded in 2016, Amper turns legacy factory equipment into a source of live production data without expensive retrofits or complex IT integrations, and was acquired by ECI Software Solutions in December 2025.