Manufacturing Talk Radio

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 both the May 2022 Purchasing Manager's Index and the ISM's Semi-Annual Survey in an information-packed presentation of where manufacturing is at and where it appears to be headed. If you need some good news, this is it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Nguyen, CEO and Co-Founder of Aitomatic (www.aitomatic.com) discusses the predictive maintenance uses of A.I. in manufacturing. The company also provides A.I. for energy optimization, demand forecasting, avionics user experience, automotive cybersecurity, automotive cabin experience, smart home experience, and marine sonar imaging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Haig Stoddard, the widely followed auto industry analyst, joins host Cliff Waldman to talk about a range of issues facing the U.S. auto industry. After discussing considerable supply chain problems Haig offers analysis of mounting demand-side pressures including the surge in gas prices and the rapid rise in interest rates. This is followed by a discussion of the longer-term forces shaping the auto sector including the work-from-home phenomenon, potential migration out of the city centers, and climate change. The episode concludes with analysis of workforce problems in the U.S. auto industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode host Harry Moser discusses with Lew Weiss how manufacturers measure competitiveness by comparing delivery, quality, and price and why U.S. manufacturers keep losing out on price. Harry looks closely at how the U.S. lost its edge and the path back to global manufacturing leadership. Harry also explains how companies could bring back up to 30% of what we import without raising their prices or negatively impacting their profits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On May 23rd, The Institute for Supply Management presented the J. Shipman Gold Medal award to Jimmy Anklesaria at the 2022 ISM World conference in Orlando, FL. Mr. Anklesaria, F.C.A., LL.B., is the founder of Anklesaria Group, Inc. Mr. Anklesaria joined Manufacturing Talk Radio hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss his experiences in the procurement and supply chain sector, and some of the immediate future challenges for purchasing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady on Manufacturing Talk Radio are Jerry Flum, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of CreditRiskMonitor, and Michael I. Flum, who is responsible for operational strategy and implementation to leverage existing human capital through technology and efficient work processes, as well as the Alternative Data revenue line, to discuss SupplyChainMonitor™, with records on just under 30 million businesses worldwide, predictive risk scores on approximately five million, and tier-2 payment data on about four million businesses, to provide actionable insights for procurement risk management. SupplyChainMonitor™ offers interactive tools that help subscribers monitor and manage their company's supply chain risks at the aggregate and granular levels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Derry, CEO of the Institute for Supply Management, discusses the incredibly challenging conditions that supply chain executives and staff members have successfully weathered since January of 2020 when Covid reached America’s shores. Although many businesses were shut down, manufacturing continued to operate while the operations of their suppliers and shipping lines around the world were also closed for several months. Tom touches on the areas that were affected and two significant sea changes that will be with us for years, if not decades, to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Terry Iverson, CEO of Iverson and Company, and Founder of ChampionNOW discusses the great career opportunities in manufacturing, and the potential to get college paid for by your employer so you can graduate with a career and no student loan debt - what could be better? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, Managing Partner with Armada Corporate Intelligence, discusses facets of the economy that manufacturing is dealing with, and the underlying strengths and weaknesses of the shifting sands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, Senior Correspondent with Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses the chaos and forecasting surrounding manufacturing from D.C. policy to oil and gas prices that make it difficult to predict the strength of the current expansion, much less its longevity. The previous historic economic expansion followed by the pandemic interruption has created such an air of uncertainty that prognosticators are playing both sides of the fence in predicting continued expansion and near-term recession. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Ben Talbert with Better Than Found (www.btfsearch.com) as he discusses how a search firm works for its clients and candidates to find the most suitable fit at a cost much less than a wrong hire. Hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady ask Mr. Talbert how his firm finds and places the right people in a very tight labor market. 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(R) updates Manufacturing Talk Radio on aspects of the hospital industry struggling from Covid, the War in Ukraine, labor and supply chain challenges that still exist within the industry and may for many months looking forward. 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® discusses the PMI (Purchasing Manager’s Index) details that continue to show expansion, the major PMI categories impacting the overall number, and industry sectors showing strengths and weaknesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For more than a decade, Harry Moser, founder and CEO of the Reshoring Initiative (www.reshorenow.org), has been an industry leader and champion for reshoring products and jobs that went overseas. He has spoken at industry conferences, trade shows, and in the halls and offices of government across the country to deliver his message to bring back products and jobs to America. Now, Harry lends his voice to the national discussion in his own podcast, Moser on Manufacturing, produced by JacketMediaCo.com. In this episode, Harry talks about the various government agencies available to manufacturers to reshore products and jobs, and the competitive, bottom-line benefits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of 'Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture', host Cliff Waldman will review the latest data and forecasts from an increasingly difficult and risky global economic picture. Cliff will discuss the significant downward revisions to global growth forecasts, the increasingly aggressive campaign from the Federal Reserve to tame elevated inflation, the global growth and inflation implications of Russia's protracted war in Ukraine and the supply chain and growth implications of the Covid lockdowns in Shanghai and other major centers in China. He will overview the implications of all of these concerns for near-term U.S. manufacturing performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad Pope, Head of Customer Success for Kinsa, discusses the company's Smart Thermometer and confidential health information gathering tool to predict consumer demand for cold and flu season products based on when outbreaks are happening in real-time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, senior international correspondent with Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses the purchasing conditions in countries around the world, and headwinds that might hit the manufacturing industry. 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(R) discusses the front line battle with Covid that occurs behind the scenes at hospitals across the country and the apparent improvement in wellness as America shifts from Pandemic to epidemic. The industry is cautiously optimistic that the virulence of this virus has waned as patient need for ICU care declines sharply in March 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Naiose Irwin, CEO of Solarflux, discusses the innovative solutions and rapid ROI of converting to inexpensive, scalable solar-thermal power that results in zero emissions without the use of carbon credits. 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® discusses the PMI (Purchasing Manager’s Index) details that continue to show expansion, the major PMI categories impacting the overall number, and industry sectors showing strengths and weaknesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harry Moser, Founder and President of the Reshoring Initiative, discusses what is happening in manufacturers bringing production, and jobs, back to America. Offshoring, particularly to Asia, has lost much of its cost benefits, especially with wages in China rising and the loss of intellectual property. The mood of America towards products produced in China has shifted from ambivalent to averse. Learn how these changes can position your company to win by listening to Moser of Manufacturing, the newest show in the JacketMediaCo line-up of industry-leading podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liran Akavia, Co-Founder and COO at Seebo (www.seebo.com) helps manufacturers document their production processes, from raw material inputs to completed products output to identify hidden, incremental improvements that translate into significant cost reductions, yield increase, quality improvements, and bottom-line benefits. Currently being used by several companies in food manufacturing, baked goods, powdered chemicals, liquid chemical, glass, cement, steel, and emissions reductions, the A.I. driven methodology shows a rapid ROI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Mead, Vice President of Sales for Totalogistix, helps manufacturers find the hidden savings in the movement of their goods, from raw materials to finished products, overlooked in their supply chain and the invoices manufacturers pay - and often over-pay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, speaks to the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) today about interest Rate hikes and the state of the economy as the Fed looks forward in 2022 and grapples with Inflation. Cliff Waldman, President of New World Economics, speaks for the meeting in a special news brief wrap-up of Chairman powells remarks in a live episode on Manufacturing Talk Radio. " Powell is not mincing words today. He is giving a very frank, very hawkish speech. He's pulling no punches about inflation being "much too high." And while he thinks there is some historical precedent for a soft landing, i.e. bringing inflation under control without causing a recession, he acknowledges the risks," Waldman reported. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Kotvian, Managing Director for Kivnon USA discusses mobile robotic solutions for factory floors, warehouses, and distribution centers to handle materials from storage to production lines to inventory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, senior international correspondent with Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses the purchasing conditions in countries around the world, and headwinds that might hit the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Barry Sample Ph.D., senior director of science and technology, at Quest Diagnostics, and a board-certified forensic toxicologist discusses workplace drug use, how companies can test for it, how employees feel about it, and the decline in drug use at companies that do test for it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nancy LeMaster, Committee Cahir of the ISM's Hospital Report on Business(R) indicates that elective procedures are increasing in hospitals, meaning that hospitals can provide care and beds for patients with conditions other than COVID. The industry remains cautiously optimistic that the pandemic is shifting to an epidemic, meaningless cases, and less serious cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the ISM’s Services Report on Business® discusses the impact of the bottlenecked supply chain on the services sector, which could extend into next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Fiore, Committee Chair for the ISM Manufacturing Report on Business(R), discusses the continued strength in manufacturing for the PMI (Purchasing Manager’s Index) as raw material costs continue to increase, labor remains constrained, and the supply chain becomes a serious concern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of 'Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture', Dr. Dean Foreman, Chief Economist of the American Petroleum Institute, joined host Cliff Waldman for a wide-ranging discussion of energy issues, present, and future. Dean overviewed oil market distortions arising from the pandemic, Russian aggression, inflation and supply chain challenges. He also offered analysis of the markets for natural gas and gasoline. In the last part of the episode, the discussion turned to climate change, with a focus on technology and the role of the federal government in incentivizing climate-driven energy innovations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tina Zwolinski, CEO and Founding Partner of SkillsGapp, discusses how manufacturers can get 20- and 30-year olds engaged with manufacturing through skills training built on gaming designed for each manufacturer's specific needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, senior international correspondent with Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses the purchasing conditions in countries around the world, and headwinds that might hit the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Wallace, Co-Founder and President of Innerview, presents the critical concern where frontline staff may be presenting very different information about the company to customers instead of the correct brand information, and how that can be corrected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hospitals continue to bear the brunt of Covid and it will be several months before any flattening of the Covid curve will reduce the strain on ICU's, hospital beds, and employees leaving the industry because the strain of work hours and loss of life has become too much to handle emotionally and psychologically. Vaccine mandates have also pushed people out of the industry, as it has across many industries, and will continue to adversely impact hospitals and other businesses that apply a mandate. 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

Host Cliff Waldman was in attendance to hear Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell address NABE's Economic Policy Conference in Washington DC last week. Hear his take on the content of his speech and the implications for interest rates and inflation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, senior international correspondent with Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses the purchasing conditions in countries around the world, and headwinds that might hit the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Jennings, the owner and operator of WYSIWYG Marketing, discusses the vital importance of having up-to-date content in a current website design as search engines change their algorithms, meaning you may not be found. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, Managing Partner with Armada Corporate Intelligence, discusses the Credit Manager's Index. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Blosser from Ceratizit discusses technology and applications supporting the automotive industry to optimize and streamline processes with cutting, drilling, boring, reaming, and countersinking tools on the Manufacturing Talk Radio podcast. 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

Nancy LeMaster, Committee Chair of the ISM's Hospital Report on Business(R) discusses the latest report in detail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Fiore, Committee Chair for the ISM Manufacturing Report on Business(R), presents the manufacturing Report On Business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cliff Waldman, CEO of New World Economics, joins Manufacturing Talk Radio hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the manufacturing challenges and headwinds in 2022 that are not insignificant. Document Referenced in this Podcast: https://rdcu.be/cDzB4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, Senior Correspondent on Global Purchasing Manager's Index Surveys reports that overall conditions are good globally and expectations for manufacturing are continued expansion through the balance of 2021; albeit, current inflation may not be temporary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host John Kennedy, CEO of the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Partnership welcomes guest Steve Melito is the Senior Solutions Specialist for FuzeHub, part of the New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices