For decades, the West has been quietly dismantling the very engine of its prosperity: its manufacturing industry. Factories closed, engineering talent fled to finance, and entire supply chains moved to China. Today we stand on the edge of an abyss - dependent on rivals for the machines that make machines, the parts that build everything, and the skills that once defined our strength.
In this urgent and visionary manifesto, Bulgarian mechanical engineer Stefan Stefanov reveals six long-buried secrets from America's industrial golden age and shows why they still hold the key to our future.
Drawing inspiration from Peter Thiel's
Zero to One, Stefanov argues that the West does not need another financial innovation or software breakthrough. What it needs is a cultural and technological renaissance - restoring the engineering approach to management, rebuilding our human capital, and making the creation of complex, vertically integrated factories once again understandable, scalable, and investable.
From the forgotten lessons of Frederick Taylor, William Deming, Oliver Wight and the great American engineers to a bold new roadmap for reindustrialization,
Zero to Industry is both a diagnosis of how we lost our edge and a practical call to reclaim it.
For engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, investors, and anyone who refuses to accept decline - this book is a rallying cry.
The factory is the product. The time to build it again is now.
