
Before factories could talk about AI agents, Ben-Assa was helping them locate glass carts, mine equipment and missing minutes. His career is a study in making invisible industrial problems legible - and then useful.
A roll of carbon fiber can expire, a tool can vanish and one late machine can scramble the week. Plataine built an industrial decision layer for exactly that mess - and its best evidence is measured in saved material, recovered hours and fewer wrong cuts.
CREAN, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based aerospace engineering and Smart Factory company that supplies hands-on engineering services and manufacturing-optimization programs to space, defense, and commercial clients. Founded in 2002 by James and Jennifer Crean, the firm fields teams of aerospace subject-matter experts who help customers move systems from concept through full-scale production while modernizing factory operations. CREAN is also developing CelestNet, a proposed lunar communications and navigation network, following its 2023 acquisition of Aquarian Space.