Manufacturing Talk Radio

Tommy Kirk, COO of Alotech Inc., a contract manufacturer located in Goldston, North Carolina, provides contract manufacturing services to US inventors, entrepreneurs, and product marketeers that actually make investments in companies seeking to expand and improve their processes. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of “Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture”, host Cliff Waldman reviews the path of the pandemic-induced contraction in the U.S. manufacturing sector before discussing the May reports on U.S. retail sales and industrial production as well as the May “Manufacturing Report on Business” from the Institute for Supply Management. Cliff offers his thoughts about whether a trough in the U.S. manufacturing downturn has been reached. He concludes the episode with a discussion of the factors that will impact a manufacturing recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Senior Correspondent Norbert Ore discusses the latest Purchasing Managers Index reports coming in from around the globe. Prepare yourself for next month by gaining an understanding of this discussion with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, an economist with Armada Corporate Intelligence, discusses the NACM Credit Managers Index favorable and unfavorable numbers, and how the economy is reacting to the restart – at this moment in time, what does the recovery look like for 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam Bradbury and Mark Heidebrecht, Managing Partners at Ergonomics International discuss information processing and decision making beyond form, fit, and function for people in their workspaces, their interaction with machines, and how to protect them from COVID-19 transmission while at work, and ways employers can mitigate risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the episode, Chad Moutray, the Chief Economist for the National Association for Manufacturers presents the results of the latest NAM Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey and places them in the context of his short-term forecast of the U.S. and global economies. The episode also includes a discussion of the longer-term issues for the U.S. manufacturing sector that have been created by the pandemic and the historically deep economic downturn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawrence Whittle is the CEO of Parsable, provider of the leading Connected Worker Platform built to digitize, execute, measure and transform human industrial work at scale to improve productivity, quality and safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam Khan is CEO and Founder of AKHAN Semiconductor, a company ushering in a new era of computing technology with diamonds, and discusses with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady how lab-grown diamonds are being used in semiconductors for efficient thermal dissipation and computing. For more, visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady welcome Chair, Tim Fiore for a closer look at the factors that went into the Manufacturing Report On Business and this month’s PMI. Don’t miss this in-depth, exclusive interview available only on Manufacturing Talk Radio. For more visit MFGTALKRADIO.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lew Weiss and Tim Grady welcome Mike Franz, CEO and founder of ManufacturingPower.com, a database provider of competitive MRO information from participating companies who anonymously share detailed purchasing data and can directly benefit from that shared data to save money operating and supporting their business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Steffens, CEO of Airline Hydraulics, a value-added distributor of fluid power, automation, and machine safeguarding products from leading manufacturers joins hosts Lew Wiess and Tim to discuss reopening businesses and safe guard systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of ‘Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture’, host Cliff Waldman reviews the April data on US retail sales as well as the April manufacturing report from the Institute for Supply Management and the April industrial production report from the Federal Reserve. Against the backdrop of these data, which portray a US manufacturing sector that has been pushed into historic contraction by the pandemic, Cliff concludes the episode by identifying four industry sectors that could potentially lead manufacturing back to growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, Senior Correspondent for Manufacturing Talk Radio, shares his report from Strategas Research Partners, a leading institutional broker-dealer focused on investment and sector strategy, macro-economics, policy research, and technical data, on the movement of supply chain numbers in a COVID-stricken economy, and what may come back before other manufacturing or non-manufacturing sectors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Siney is the CoFounder of two businesses to sell to the government and the recent launch of GovQuote.us, a free platform to simplify how procurement companies can sell to the government, along with free videos to help you close deals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric Faucette and Stuart Faris discuss How Novus Labs helps companies and individuals develop and/or debug the concepts, software, or products through concept analysis, in-depth testing, reworking and eventual proof of concept, software, finished parts, or operable machines. There is more here to hear than you can imagine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The April jobs report shows labor market conditions that nobody alive today has ever seen before. Cliff Waldman, National Economists Club Board of Governors Chair, CEO of New World Economics and Host of Manufacturing Matters reviews the report and its implications for the economy as a whole, for the manufacturing sector, and for key manufacturing subsectors. Don’t miss this historic report, brought to you by Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is impossible to predict what the economic recovery will look like, and even dour indicators don't give a great indication of the future. But, listen to this Credit Manager's Index report and Dr. Kuehl's comment on the economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hydraulic manifolds regulate fluid flow to control the transfer of power between actuators and pumps. Nimit Patel, president of Hydraulic Manifolds discusses the engineered to order (ETO) work his company does for OEMs and standard uses for hydraulic manifolds with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Adriana Sanford joins hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the supply chain. She has authored two books about the supply chain, in addition to her many other accomplishments. Listen to find out if your manufacturing operations will be affected and what you can do about it. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Daniel N. Watter a founding partner of the Morris Psychological Group, P.A., in Parsippany, New Jersey, who joins hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the psychological effects of a pandemic on people, and how they cope with the fear of isolation, sickness and death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of ‘Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture’, host Cliff Waldman continues his discussion of the deepening, pandemic-driven downturn in the US manufacturing sector. He explores the data from the latest survey report from the Institute for Supply Management as well as the latest industrial production report from the Federal Reserve. He reveals his forecast for U.S. manufacturing growth for 2020 and 2021 and outlines the key issues for U.S. manufacturing recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Senior Correspondent Norbert Ore discusses the latest Purchasing Managers Index reports coming in from around the globe - just as the global pandemic began to hit. Prepare yourself for next month by gaining an understanding of this discussion with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this NEC webinar, Cliff Waldman of New World Economics, Kristin Dziczek of the Center for Automotive Research and Don Leavens of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association will discuss the impacts of the global coronavirus pandemic on US manufacturing. Panelists will discuss the hit to total manufacturing growth and the growth of key manufacturing subsectors before considering plausible recovery scenarios. The discussion will also include an assessment of longer-term effects on such critical matters as sourcing and supply chain, innovation investment, automation, and workforce development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It seems so simple – it has wheels on it, you load it up and move it – until it becomes industrial. Then, casters matter, weight matters, direction matters, speed matters – and someone who knows the right casters for the right application matters. Hear Joe Lyden discuss the oft-overlooked science of casters with co-hosts, Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kristjan Vilosius is CEO of Katana, a unique software as a service to help manufacturers move from spreadsheets to modern software, and open the new and exciting channel of DTC - Direct to Consumer sales of product. This is a growing trend in manufacturing that hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady have been hearing about in interviews, industry periodicals and events, and it is something you can explore in this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Credit Manager's job is to evaluate the ability to get paid, but what happens when the economy shuts down? Dr. Chris Kuehl discusses the unprecedented possibilities with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is legacy lunacy? Modern, cloud-based software creates efficiencies with favorable ROIs when integrated correctly. Listen as Tushar Patel, Chief Marketing Officer of CLEO, discusses their solutions in designing, deploying, operating and optimizing the integration of legacy systems with modern software, with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sunny Han, founder and CEO of Fulcrum, joins hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss integrating legacy software and paper-based processes with one software system to provide manufacturers with end-to-end visibility of their production operations so they can actually improve the process rather than merely managed it. This is a jump into Industry 4.0 without the pain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, Senior Correspondent for Industry Surveys for Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses crisis management, and why risk management is key to surviving the impact of an unexpected event, in this discussion with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Preparing for the next crisis will help you get through this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is unlikely that very many economists ever thought they would have to contemplate the impact of a rapidly spreading, globally menacing pathogen on the economic outlook. But that day is upon us. Of course at Manufacturing Talk Radio, our focus is on the US manufacturing sector. In this episode of ‘Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture’, host Cliff Waldman will discuss the just-released report on February industrial production as well as the most recent report on manufacturing from the Institute for Supply Management to begin to offer a picture of how the coronavirus crisis is impacting US industry. He will conclude by putting the data in the context of a rapidly changing set of circumstances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remember when Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla truck and the windows shattered? It didn't have to be! Hear Shawn Kitchell, President and CEO of Madico, a coating solutions manufacturer that makes coatings for windows discuss the many solutions they provide for business, industry and consumers in this fun discussion with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Shawn DuBravac, Chief Economist of IPC, and Falan Yinug, Director of Industry Statistics and Economic Policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association, discuss the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak on the electronics and semiconductor industries. Both guests respond to questions about fundamental price and employment outcomes but also discuss broader issues such as the lessons from previous crises as well as the appropriate policies for mitigating the damaging effects of the coronavirus shock on global manufacturing performance. The interview concludes with a discussion of potential longer-term industry consequences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Marsh is CEO of Scout Systems. He travels the world helping manufacturers implement Industry 4.0 technology. Learn how to do it in this interview with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, senior economic correspondent for Manufacturing Talk Radio always brings in so much more insightful commentary as he discusses the latest Credit Manager's Index report and other economic situations, including the coronavirus in this conversation with host Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Manufacturing Talk Radio, Hosts Lew and Tim welcome Johanna Bellenberg, Director Marketing & Communications for Picavi, all the way from Germany. Picavi's full line of assisted reality and augmented reality glasses enable logistics workers to keep important information in front of them yet keep their hands free, visually guiding them through the picking process, increasing productivity and accuracy. Listen to this episode for a closer look at this amazing product, only on Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Ray Keefe, President of Lean Enterprise Strategies, LLC and former Vice President of Manufacturing for Emerson discusses the Lean manufacturing paradigm. After defining Lean and providing an overview of its progress in US manufacturing, Ray discusses Lean metrics and Lean benefits. He then explains the impact of digitization on Lean implementation. The episode concludes with a discussion of the change management challenges brought about by the Lean journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learn what Xometry can do for your business from Greg Paulson, Director of Application Engineering, as he discusses Xometry's on-demand manufacturing service with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady that opens up capabilities for your manufacturing needs. This is Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS) at its best! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patirck Moorhead, Chief Marketing Officer for start-up PriceFX joins hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to chat about the current state and future of price optimization in manufacturing. Learn how to rapidly improve profitability through price optimization! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nobert Ore, Senior Correspondent for Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses the Purchasing Manager's Indexes of other countries and regions of the U.S. with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. There is a manufacturing shift in the making - find out what it is! For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the third episode of ‘Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture’, host Cliff Waldman reviews the latest manufacturing growth data from the Federal Reserve as well as the latest Purchasing Managers’ Index from the Institute for Supply Management. For macroeconomic context, he then discusses the most recent US and global economic data. The impact of the spreading novel coronavirus is discussed. Cliff concludes the episode by giving a short-term forecast for US manufacturing growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicole Wolter, President of HM Manufacturing in Wauconda, IL, joins hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the USMCA. She was an advocate for passage for small and midsize businesses across America. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of ‘Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture’, host Cliff Waldman discusses the potential impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak on US manufacturing growth. Cliff describes the outlines of a flow chart that he designed for clarifying the impact of the virus outbreak on key economic parameters. He offers a worst-case scenario forecast for Chinese economic growth and US manufacturing growth and lists the US manufacturing subsectors that are most impacted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Servitization focuses on after-the-sale service, and has birthed PaaS - Product as a Service, both of which are and will be changing major industries. Learn more as Gary Brooks, Chief Marketing Officer at Syncron, chats with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady about selling outcomes instead of selling products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nic Temple joins hosts Lew Weiss and Time Grady to discuss ForwardX Robotics, a company that automates consumer and industrial equipment, from carry-on luggage to vision-based autonomous forklifts and pallet jacks, to reduce workplace injuries and make work more efficient, including managing multiple mobile robotic devices simultaneously in real time applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Along with an update on the Credit Manager's Index from the National Association of Credit Managers, get an overall picture of the U.S., Chinese, UK and EU economies in this fun discussion between noted economist Dr. Chris Kuehl and hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Chris always presents and interesting and knowledgeable point of view. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Data silos, islands of information, here, there and everywhere but not connected create chaos in businesses all across the world. As companies move into more data and big data, links must be built between the data silos and islands of information. Join hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady and they discuss scattered data with Clark Richey, Chief Technology Officer with FactGem. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the first episode of this new show, ‘Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture’, host Cliff Waldman discusses the latest (December 2019) Federal Reserve report on U.S. manufacturing production growth and reviews factory sector activity for all of 2019. He then analyzes the global economic context for these manufacturing data. Cliff concludes by discussing the key questions for assessing the near-term outlook for U.S. manufacturing performance. This new series will air monthly. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Harry Moser from Reshoring Initiative returns to Manufacturing Talk Radio to give us an update on his efforts to bring manufacturing jobs back to America. Visit Reshoring initiative at reshorenow.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travis Smith is Chief Technology Officer and Founder of WithoutWire Inventory Services, which provides an instant view of inventory and the movement of goods, and discusses key shifts in that space on a mobile device with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President and CEO of Thomas, the online data, platform, and technology company which provides thomasnet.com, an online industrial supplier database, joins hosts Tim Grady and Lew Weiss to discuss what 2020 looks like from the view of manufacturers, suppliers, and data results from Thomas and more than 1.6 million searches a month for supplier information. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices