Manufacturing Talk Radio

In this episode of 'Manufacturing Think Tank', host Cliff Waldman welcomes noted economist and technology expert Shawn Dubravac, President of the Avrio Institute and author of New York Times bestseller Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Work, LIve, and Communicate. The episode begins with a discussion of the post-pandemic path of manufacturing process innovation and corporate automation strategies. The hot-button issues of artificial intelligence and robotics were then explored. At this uncertain time, Shawn also gave his outlook for the tech sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Moser On Manufacturing, Harry Moser of Reshoring Institute and Lew Weiss, founder of manufacturing Talk Radio and President of All Metals & Forge Group discuss how contract manufacturers can successfully reshore their operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Abplanalp, Founder and CEO of Tight Line Advisors, addresses the hidden process and innovation gems in every organization that will improve gross margin and EBITDA whie energizing the workforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, Managing Partner of Armada Corporate Intelligence, discusses the global events that impact sectors and local manufacturers, from economic shifts to geopolitical conflicts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Manufacturing Talk Radio, Lew and Tim welcome Jason Radisson, founder, and CEO of Sh1ft. In the Gig Economy, work can be spotty, particularly in the manufacturing sector. The Sh1ft platform provides earnings predictability for warehouse, logistics, assembly, and other frontline personnel throughout the manufacturing industry. Sh1ft is workforce automation at its finest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the Services ISM Report on Business® discusses the latest report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest Manufacturing ISM Report has the Manufacturing PMI at 47.4%. As the PMI continues to tumble, Timothy Fiore, Chair of the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee gives us an inside look at the report and insight into what the future may hold for the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the inaugural episode of Manufacturing Think Tank, host Cliff Waldman talks to Mike Ryan, Economics Director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, about the European energy crisis. Mike overviews the short-term economic outlook in Europe and then discusses the impact of the energy quagmire on industry supply chains. He also explains the global contagion risk of the crisis. The episode concludes with a discussion of the impacts of the European energy situation on European climate change policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Braun, Founder and CEO of Capstone Strategic, discusses different approaches to selling your business and keeping it alive after all your years of hard work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Moser On Manufacturing, Harry Moser encourages manufacturers to “buy smarter” by taking a closer look at the true cost of importing goods from overseas vs buying domestically-produced products. The import alternative is not necessarily the most cost-effective solution. Harry shares with us his Total Cost of Ownership Estimator, available at reshorenow.org to help determine if that import part is really the best option for your manufacturing organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are opportunities in Operations, On-time delivery, and Quality to improve margins and the bottom line. Dan Burgos, President and CEO of Alphanova Consulting shares insights on how to find and implement them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg Hayes, Senior Vice President of Applied Technologies at EOS North America discusses how laser deposition with powder can create next-generation parts to move theory into reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, Managing Partner of Armada Corporate Intelligence, discusses the global events that impact sectors and local manufacturers, from economic shifts to geopolitical conflicts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the Services ISM Report on Business® discusses the latest report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest Manufacturing ISM Report has the Manufacturing PMI at 48.4%. As the PMI continues it's downward trajectory, Timothy Fiore, Chair of the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee gives us an inside look at the report and insight into what the future may hold for the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady welcome back to the show Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the Services ISM Report on Business® and Timothy Fiore, Chair of the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee for this special episode of Manufacturing Talk Radio as we take a look at what lies ahead for the manufacturing and services industries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, Managing Partner of Armada Corporate Intelligence, discusses perspectives on countries and economies around the world, some of which impact the U.S., and most of which you will not hear on mainstream media. Learn about the impact of education on manufacturing, import-export with Europe, where tomorrow’s energy sources are likely to be, where the supply chain has recovered, and how the Russia-Ukraine conflict disrupts Europe more than the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the Services ISM Report on Business® discusses the latest report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this special live episode of Manufacturing Talk Radio hosts, Lew and Tim welcome back Tim Fiore to discuss the latest report. The November Manufacturing PMI® registered 49%. This is 1.2 percentage points lower than the 50.2 % in October. Today's Manufacturing PMI® figure is the lowest it's been since May 2020, when it registered 43.5 %. Listen in as Tim Fiore sheds light on the factors that contributed to this month’s report. Every month Tim Fiore joins Manufacturing Talk Radio live the day the report is released (the first business day of the month) to give his unique perspective on the latest report. Subscribe to Manufacturing Talk Radio on your favorite podcast platform or YouTube to stay informed on the latest manufacturing news with new episodes every week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of "Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture", host Cliff Waldman previews a presentation that he will give at an upcoming global conference on small and medium enterprises to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cliff discusses an emerging policy paradigm for stimulating regional advanced manufacturing strength. His presentation focuses on a simple but powerful question: How can we use entrepreneurship to provoke dynamic and sustainable industrialization? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wade Phillips, Managing Director of Seraph, discusses the methods the company uses to stop a crisis from its spiral, stabilizing the situation, establishing sustainability, and then stepping back from what was once the brink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, Managing Partner of Armada Corporate Intelligence, discusses the sector-specific, country-centric characteristics as global economies soften and some slip into recession. It won't be awful for everyone unless another black swan event makes it worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Moser On Manufacturing, Harry stresses the importance of consumers communicating to retailers their desire to buy made-in-USA products and that retailers should make it easy to find those products on their shelves. Lew and Harry talk about what defines “made in America” when it comes to the parts used in a product, and Lew shares his solution for the skills gap by way of immigration policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Santhanam, CEO of the Fernweh Group, an investment company, is adapting an engaged investor and operator model (EIOM) to create alpha in the industrial and industrial technology sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Lilly, President and CEO of LillyWorks discusses how to improve manufacturing performance through the application of technology in the world of Industry 4.0, IIoT, Machine Learning, and AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the Services ISM Report on Business® discusses the latest report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this special live episode of Manufacturing Talk Radio hosts Lew and Tim welcome back Tim Fiore to discuss the latest report. The October Manufacturing PMI® registered 50.2%. While this represents a 0.7% dip since September’s PMI of 50.9% we are technically still in expansion territory but inching ever closer to contraction. Listen in as Tim Fiore sheds light on the factors that contributed to this month’s report including a drop in new orders and backlogs, increased raw materials inventories and an overall decrease in prices. Every month Tim Fiore joins Manufacturing Talk Radio live the day the report is released (the first business day of the month) to give his unique perspective on the latest report. Subscribe to Manufacturing Talk Radio on your favorite podcast platform or YouTube and stay informed on the latest manufacturing news with new episodes every week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Moser On manufacturing, Harry Moser and Lew Weiss discuss a variety of topics as they relate to reshoring including skilled labor and immigration, and how it relates to the challenge of growing the GDP. As Harry explains, in order to grow the GDP, you need to increase the workforce, production, or ideally both. Harry also talks about Germany’s looming energy crisis brought on by their manufacturing industry's reliance on Russian natural gas. Could this result in production moving to the U.S.? All this and more on this episode of Moser On Manufacturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frank joins Lew and Tim to discuss machine integrations in manufacturing and why they are possible for small to mid-sized companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of "Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture", host Cliff Waldman offers the high points of a series of talks that he will be giving on the outlook for the increasingly troubled global economy. He begins by identifying the confluence of forces that have created the most difficult global inflation problem in four decades. Cliff explains that growing tensions with Russia and China have added to the outlook risks of a world economy that is contending with high inflation, rapidly rising interest rates and currency instability. He concludes by discussing a number of permanent changes that will come from this period of great challenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl discusses the unusual force driving the U.S. economy that the Fed's anti-inflation rate increases cannot control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Precision manufacturing cannot be achieved without a solid foundation. Literally. Principal and Senior Structural Engineer at Larson & Darby Group Bill Waldorf sits down with Lew and Tim to talk about what exactly goes into the structural foundation of a modern manufacturing facility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Services ISM Report for Sept 2022 with special guest Anthony Nieves, chair of the Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Committee for the Institute for Supply Management. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Fiore, Committee Chair of the ISM’s Manufacturing Report on Business(R) discusses the September 2022 Purchasing Manager’s Index. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The International Manufacturing Technology Show is the largest and longest-running industry trade show in the Western Hemisphere. Host Harry Moser was one of the over 86,000 people on hand and gives us his recap of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of 'Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture', host Cliff Waldman introduces the new video format for his show. In this first video episode he offers a discussion of the future of U.S. manufacturing at this time of heightened global economic and geopolitical turmoil. He notes that at least in the short-term the future of manufacturing is very much tied to the economic and geopolitical future of the world. He then discusses critical issues with the manufacturing labor force, manufacturing entrepreneurship, and the development and deployment of manufacturing production technologies. The episode concludes with a discussion of public policy as an increasingly potent influence on the future of U.S. industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manufacturing Talk Radio welcomes Ara Surenian from Plex, the Smart Manufacturing Platform that connects your people, systems, machines, and supply chains. Lew and Ara discuss Plex’s products which include Enterprise Resource Planning, Manufacturing Execution System, Supply Chain Planning, Production Monitoring and more. Find out how to run your manufacturing operations more efficiently on this episode of Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl talks candidly about world events and their economic impact on business and industry from his perspective at Armada Corporate Intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny White, Lead for ECI's Manufacturing Product Development Solutions, discusses ERP upgrades and integrations for small and mid-sized manufacturers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nancy LeMaster, committee chair for the Institute for Supply Management’s Hospital Purchasing Managers Report on Business with the latest report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the ISM’s Services Report on Business® discusses the latest report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Fiore, Committee Chair of the ISM’s Manufacturing Report on Business(R) discusses the August 2022 Purchasing Manager’s Index. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An accumulation of economic, political, and geopolitical problems has brought China to a moment of either significant peril or significant change-or both. The implications for U.S. manufacturers are immense given China's pivotal role in global growth and global supply chains. Host Cliff Waldman will overview the dynamics that have brought China to this pivotal moment. He will discuss the implications for global growth, global stability and the future of U.S. manufacturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Orrico, Founder and President of Dream to Product discusses how his company helps move a product concept into the real world through engineering design and manufacturing processes for companies that need to outsource R&D. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The United States has an approximately $800 billion goods trade deficit. This equals about 40% of actual U.S. manufacturing output. The future state of U.S. manufacturing depends substantially on our success in reducing, rather than further increasing this deficit. Reshoring Initiative Founder Harry Moser and Manufacturing Talk Radio Host Lew Weiss discuss where we should be going, and what changes need to be made now and in the future to reduce our deficit and secure a successful future for manufacturing in the U.S. Don't miss the insightful discussion between two seasoned manufacturing professionals, available only on Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dereck Williams, founder of DW Consulting, tackles the toughest challenges manufacturing has to offer and applies quality systems to overcome them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, the Managing Partner of The Flagship Reports, discusses the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and how it impacts the U.S. economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ricardo Fonzaghi, Chief Commercial Officer and Executive Director for LeasePlan USA discusses how LeasePlan works with its clients to help them implement fleets or equipment, conserve capital, and ensure that the machinery is installed and works to the best benefit of the client. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brandon Acker, President of Titan Abrasive Systems, chats about the often overlooked ways abrasives are used in manufacturing, from military vehicles and airplanes to the tips of hypodermic needles, safe uses of abrasives, types of abrasives, and their importance in the adhesion of finishes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nancy LeMaster, committee chair for the Institute for Supply Management’s Hospital Purchasing Managers Report on Business with the latest report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices