The Industrial Heresy

Published irregularly · Founded on a grievance · Est. 2026

Sacred cow slaughtered in broad daylight

Suspect still at large, still typing. Church of Lean Manufacturing urges congregation to remain calm.

Rev Murugesan
MURUGESAN, pictured, moments before mentioning lead times.

A series of heresies against the manufacturing orthodoxy has been committed in public, repeatedly, and without apparent remorse.

The accused, R. N. Murugesan of Antonym Industries, maintains that the centralised factory is a high-latency monolith running legacy code for a world that no longer exists, and that the correct response is not a bigger mainframe but a hard fork.

The Church of Lean Manufacturing has urged its congregation to remain calm. A senior figure confirmed that utilisation of 98 per cent is basically fine, actually, that unused capacity is waste, obviously, and that the ocean freight gods are merely testing us.

An emergency committee has been convened. It has commissioned a deck.

Pressed on the whereabouts of Gary, who wrote the load-bearing macro in 1997 and has not been seen since, the Church declined to comment.

Mr Murugesan could not be reached for comment. He was already typing.

Every heresy committed to date is catalogued below.

Missing person

GARY. Last seen 1997. Author of one (1) load-bearing spreadsheet macro. Believed to be in Mallorca. Does not answer his phone. Reward offered for documentation.

Weather

Gravity has returned. Capital costs money again. Ocean freight unsettled, with a chance of a ship parked sideways. Outlook for the monolith: poor.

Correspondence

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Printed in Britain, with the original unpatched spelling. Sorry, America. © 2026 R. Murugesan

Industrial
Heresy

Pointing and laughing at the dinosaurs of global manufacturing as they stubbornly wait for the meteor. Committing industrial blasphemy, one article at a time.