Manufacturing Talk Radio

Dallas Crawford, Advanced Analytics Executive wth QueBIT explains how manufacturers can tighten up on their pricing inputs to learn where the opportunities are to lower costs and compete better on price. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don’t miss Anthony Nieves, chair for the Services PMI™ Business Survey Committee for the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) with the Services PMI™ Report On Business right here on Manufacturing Talk Radio. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Institute for Supply Management®’s Report On Business® Series for August 2020. 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 episodes like this, visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Institute for Supply Management®’s Report On Business® Series for July 2020. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don’t miss Anthony Nieves, chair for Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Committee for the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) with the Non-manufacturing Report On business right here on Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Cromheecke, Founder and CEO of SteamChain, a Machine as a Service business is in a new space where manufacturers may not need to own and maintain machines to produce their products and services. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, Director of Industry surveys for Strategas Securities LLP discusses purchasing conditions in Europe, Asia, South America, and areas of the U.S. that reflect a fairly positive restart, at least for the U.S. economy. 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 tracking the path of U.S. manufacturing recovery from the pandemic-induced contraction. He puts the recovery challenge in perspective by reviewing the report on second quarter U.S. GDP which shows the sharpest U. S. economic contraction of the post World War II era. Cliff then reviews July data on retail sales as well as the July manufacturing survey report from the Institute for Supply Management, the July industrial production report and the July reading on job growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector. He concludes with a discussion of the manufacturing outlook risks that arise from a global resurgence of the coronavirus and the failure of the U.S. government to pass an extension of federal fiscal stimulus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill Berutti, CEO of Plex, a software platform for smart manufacturing, discusses why manufacturers needs to transform their production from 20th Century methods to 21st Century Smart Manufacturing systems. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, 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

Roger Sands, CEO, and Co-Founder of Wyebot, discusses the WiFi Intelligence Platform from Wyebot for companies of all sizes that provides diagnostic data for manufacturers to improve all aspects of their Wifi throughput so operations run more efficiently, and thus, more profitably. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audie Penn is the Principal & Owner of AUDIE PENN CONSULTING. Audie has been working and consulting for over 30 years providing different services to several Fortune 50 companies in diverse industries and organizations. His approach is a lean transformation by applying training, coaching and project facilitation with local teams securing a solid foundation. Audie has been most notable as a Global Consultant where he combines tactical leadership skills with process focus improvements. Some of his clients are Caterpillar, John Deere, Martin Marietta and HON. 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 latest data on retail sales and industrial production as well as the latest report on U.S. manufacturing from the Institute for Supply Management. Cliff discusses the uncertainties that can derail the embryonic U.S. manufacturing recovery including a resurgence of rapid spreading of the coronavirus, uncertainties over further federal economic stimulus and growing tensions with China. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each month, Senior Correspondent Norbert Ore presents the results of the surveys he conducts for Strategas, an institutional brokerage and advisory firm, on the 18 Global Purchasing Manager’s Indexes (PMI) and regional U.S. surveys that are a clear indicator of the direction of manufacturing. Join hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady in this informative interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EosLift USA Corporation provides intelligent storage and retrieval systems for warehouse and distribution systems with robot-centric solutions and automation. This technology allows for more efficient placement and retrieval of boxes, cases, pallets and other stored forms of products on the shelf in warehouses and distribution centers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, noted economist with Armada Corporate Intelligence, updates listeners on the Credit Manager's Index and the Economy in the first month of Recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Max Brickman is working with a venture capital fund, Heartland Ventures, to find companies on the coasts developing potential manufacturing technology and bring them to manufacturers in the heartland to discuss and learn how their new technology could be applied and what is needed in midwest manufacturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Soto, CEO of Industrial, one of America's top B2B marketing agencies talks with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady about Industry 4.0 marketing: why it's different, how it's different, and what manufacturers should consider to do it right. for more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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