Manufacturing Talk Radio

Co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady interview Mr. Paul Oster, CEO of Better Qualified, a business in Eatontown, NJ that can help owners and finance executives improve their credit rating to unlock the value in a business and increase the credit capacity the business can access to fund business growth.  Learn the process, the nuances, and discover how quickly your business can achieve a solid credit rating – even positioning it to stand on its own and get your personal credit and assets released from business loans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Janet E. Lord is a senior fellow at Harvard Law School Project on Disability, where she writes and researches on international law and policy relating to the human rights of persons with disabilities. She is also a member of the board of directors of Amnesty International USA and the United States International Council on Disability. Lord participated in all negotiations which led to the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She has worked in more than 40 countries worldwide on advancing the human rights of the most marginalized members of society.    An expert facilitator, Lord has designed and facilitated disability rights and awareness training for the International Labor Organization, non-profits and several large and small companies. She holds three law degrees including an LLB and LLM from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and an LLM in international and comparative law from George Washington University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch

John Kennedy, CEO of the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NJMEP) joins co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss NJMEP's launch of its Manufacturing Caucus, a face-to-face discussion with New Jersey legislators about the needs and wants of the manufacturers already operating in the state. The Manufacturing Caucus is a grass roots conversation between manufacturers and legislators on issues facing their business and the industry. Manufacturing Talk Radio will keep tabs on this ongoing effort in future interviews John Kennedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Purchasing Manager’s Indices are totaling above 50 in almost every developed country of the world as manufacturing strengthens it footing after a long and sluggish recovery from The Great Recession. In addition, few headwinds are present, so manufacturing is in the enviable position to make so long-term strategic moves now and in the near term instead of the tactical dance it has embraced for over 99 months of a recovery that seemed uncertain and often sluggish. Tune in to hear Manufacturing Talk Radio Senior International Correspondents Royce Lowe, Norbert Ore and Chong Wang discuss what is happening outside the U.S., and how it favors the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean Osborne is an inspirational individual who made a decision to stop doing things that got him in trouble with the law and use his hands-on skills and intelligence in manufacturing. Learn what that decision was like and the results he has experienced as he raised himself up at Wagner Machine, a full service custom machining and fabrication shop in Norton, Ohio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ISM's Non-Manufacturing Index rolled up to 53.9, 3.5 points less than July activity that was reported in early August. All categories that make up the index fell which may be an indicator of summer vacations in August. Hear Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair of the ISM's Non-Manufacturing Report on Business(R), goes into detail about the report and the categories to give listeners a solid sense of what is happening in this large segment of the U.S. economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Skills Gap presents great challenges in finding skilled technicians and another level of complexity finding skilled executives to oversee everything from concept and design to unique body building and customer delivery of vocational vehicles. With a truck body at its core, vocational vehicles are designed to suit a particular purpose, such as dump trucks, ambulances, fire engines, handicapped buses, or other specific uses. Hear more as Lew Weiss and Tim Grady interview John Parden, and Executive Recruiter from Management Recruiters – Indianapolis North in this intriguing discussion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gregorio has been a professor at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (EGADE), Assistant Professor of International Law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho and has participated as a member of the editorial board of the business section of Grupo Reforma newspapers. He also worked as a foreign associate for two major US law firms on the east and west coasts. Among other activities, Gregorio is the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Korea in North Eastern Mexico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As part of a nationwide effort to help close the swelling skills gap, the SME Education Foundation established PRIME® (Partnership Response In Manufacturing Education), its program to attract youth to manufacturing and prepare high school students for careers in the industry. The Foundation works closely with manufacturing businesses and associations to develop partnerships with local high schools that provide students with the knowledge and hands-on technical skills using state of the art technology and industry relevant equipment. Shape Corporation, a concept, design, engineering, and manufacturer of auto body structures has joined forces with the SME Foundation to form a new partnership to bring advanced manufacturing education to Grand Haven High School in Grand Haven, Mich.  Shape will invest $300,000 in the Foundation's PRIME program which will kick off at the Grand Haven High School in the 2018-2019 academic year. Hear about this creative partnership as it begins to expand across the U.S. through the S

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Each month, Manufacturing Talk Radio reaches out to its Senior International Correspondents to get their read on manufacturing around the world in this global economy. Royce Lowe reports from France and Europe and the United Kingdom, Chong Wang reports from Shanghai on China, Japan, and other Asian countries, Norbert Ore reports from Atlanta on 18 global PMI surveys and several regional U.S. purchasing managers indicies, and Chad Moutray, Chief Economist from the National Association of Manufacturers, discusses his Monday morning report and global monthly update. The purpose is to give business listeners a sense of how manufacturing and economic activity looks on a macro level and where it might be headed in the near term to gain an understanding of how economies interact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Nieves joins Manufacturing Talk Radio to discuss the ISM's Committee report on Non-Manufacturing, which includes all of the service sector companies, retail trade, mining and construction. This sector uses or sells many of the parts and materials crafted by the manufacturing sector, so both sectors are closely interwoven. This month, the Non-Manufacturing Report on Business(R) is very favorable as the economy continues to move forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is not the process that causes projects to fail. Change tends to fail because people fail to buy in to the change itself. Given that change is inevitable, and coming along more rapidly every year, tune in to hear Barbara Trautlein of Change Catalysts explain how to approach change projects for successful outcomes, including the all important buy-in of the people. Learn how “change equals pain in the brain,” then hear about Change Intelligence (CQ) and how it is different from but interacts with IQ and EQ. This is an insightful show for everyone in manufacturing, an industry where change is readily apparent from the C-Suite doors to the production floor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Lew & Tim talk to guests from two very different businesses. Aaron Schieving is the Director of Sales & Marketing for Lifecycle Biotechnologies which includes Chata Biosystems, VI (6) Plastics and Boval BioSolutions – all manufacturing operations that serve the medical field. Also joining Lew and Tim is Travis Walker, Senior Search Consultant for the Carlisle Group who helps manufacturers find key C-Suite executives who also discusses what is happening in the ‘gap’ of the skills gap. Listen in on the conversation at mfgtalkradio.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manufacturing is strong in all the major economies, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Asia (both China and Japan), the UK and the EU. Here from the National Association of Manufacturers Chief Economist Chad Moutray, Senior International Correspondent for Manufacturing Talk Radio Royce Lowe covering the UK and EU, and Chong Wang, Senior International Correspondent covering Asia as they report on strong results from June and strength leading into the balance of the summer. Then, on Wednesday, hear Senior Correspondent Norbert Ore update listeners on the 18 Purchasing Manager’s Indices he follows in addition to the ISM for the USA, and related economic reports – at the moment, very good news in manufacturing to hear on Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Sanford’s guest is Mr. Peter Lambert,  Senior Vice President at Willis Towers Watson for Mergers & Acquisitions Group.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady interview Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the ISM’s Non-Manufacturing Report on Business(R) that has surged upward to 57.4 on strong new orders, production and business activity. Coupled with the strength in the 57.8 Manufacturing Report on Business(R) discussed last week, the summer could be on of the strongest in the last decade for U.S. business growth. Then hear Stone Payton and Lee Cantor interview Tim Grady on Business Radio X in Atlanta about the origins of Manufacturing Talk Radio and what it brings to the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Fiore, Committee Chair for the ISM's Manufacturing Report on Business(R) and Dr. Chris Kuehl, economist with FMA International, join co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the direction and meaning of the numbers behind the numbers with the PMI at 57.8 and the CMI at 56.1 for June 2017. These are very strong and solid numbers for manufacturing, and coupled with the non-manufacturing report, present a growth picture for the 97th consecutive month and the third longest economic expansion in the U.S. since World War II. If your business isn't "feeling it" then tune in to additional Manufacturing Talk Radio episodes to find out what is missing in your business strategy, tactics, products, services or marketplace. Are you in tune with the trends or behind the technological curve? Or are you plagues by one of the 10 hidden threats to manufacturing? Hear from the experts on Manufacturing Talk Radio! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As if the housing bubble wasn’t enough, it appears that another financial bubble could be near or here – this one comprised of corporate junk bonds. Remember all the people who bought homes with No Doc loans but really couldn’t afford them, and when rates went up the bubble burst? Think about companies borrowing money they don’t have the wherewithal to repay backed by bonds rated as junk. Hear Jerry Flum, Chairman and CEO, and Peter Roma, Vice President of Credit Risk Monitor paint a rather startling picture to co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. You may want to listen to this episode more than once to catch all the nuances and what you need to do RIGHT NOW to cover your assets! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices