Jordan Black

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Sourcery · Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

What's pretty incredible is that most of the people around us have never seen a wire harness a few months ago and now they are

ramped up building high quality harnesses with our different systems and the manufacturing platform we built today.

So what's really great about all this, too, is that like it's a very configurable system of like they might start on some simpler ones in the beginning, but then they're building really complex things, you know, very shortly after, too, to kind of after they got their reps in.

And most of the people here are trying to build that ten year career of going from apprentice technician to more senior technicians over time, too.

All right.

This is called a wire crimp and this is all done by hand today.

And one of the hardest parts is visually inspecting it.

So you have to look at this really tiny thing, smaller than like a fingernail and figure out, does it look good or bad?

And this is all done by hand today by very skilled inspectors who've been doing this for 20 plus years.

So one of the things we've been spending a lot of time on is like this like AI

in robotic sectors, like how do we also get rid of this kind of inspection portion of it?

Because harnessing is incredibly critical for turning things on, but also the quality output of it too.

And to be like a little morbid, like the reason why the astronauts died in the Apollo 1 mission was like a small nick on a cable jacket of a wire harness.

So like even the smallest

nick or cut on the wire harness could be very detrimental for the whole system itself too.

So what you see here is we built kind of our own system of this is a very high rate production order for a defense company and if you look on the screen I'm putting in this thing called a wire crimp and you can see it's measuring

what it looks like and instead of visually inspecting every single time I come over here I hit capture and then it actually will tell me if it failed or not and I don't actually have to have anyone inspect this thing anymore it could be the operators and technicians on the production line saying do I have good or bad quality and this is really important as you continue to scale how do you not just scale with people but better processes and more efficient manufacturing methods too.

This is a 2D vision system looking at a picture of one part of a wire harness and saying, this does not meet the inspection criteria or the design intent of the company itself.

Thus, we need to fail this.

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