Manufacturing Talk Radio

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