Manufacturing Talk Radio

Get caught up on the latest Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) number from Brad Holcomb, chair of the ISM’s Manufacturing Business Survey Committee who issues the Manufacturing Report on Business(R), followed by Tom Derry, CEO of ISM who will announce ISM’s new mastery model for advanced expertise in purchasing and supply chain careers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Wolfe, General Manager of Powill Manufacturing, and Kristin Carty, Audience Outreach Director of ThomasNet along with top performer, Wes Whitney in supply chain and purchasing from ThomasNet’s “30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars” join our hosts on Mon., May 4th at 1:00pm (ET) to bring you the latest on the annual program showcasing exciting careers and the leading Millennial personalities fast-tracking it to the top. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The transformation of manufacturing from closed to open systems is creating opportunities for everyone; including hackers poised to poach data and disrupt production.  What’s the best strategy to deal with the cyber attacks that process automation invites and how can manufacturers quickly pivot to protect their data, systems and resume production?  Tune in as Sid Snitkin, Vice President and GM, Enterprise Advisory Services, ARC Advisory Group discusses “Cyber Security and Manufacturing” with Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is today’s landscape of connected manufacturing and what’s driving interest in the Industrial Internet? Greg Gorbach, Vice President of Information-Driven Manufacturing for ARC Advisory Group, and two of the leading voices at General Electric; Jeremiah Stone, GM of Industrial Data Intelligence, and Jennifer Bennett, GM of Manufacturing Software, both with GE Intelligent Platforms, join Manufacturing Talk Radio to discuss the technologies available now, the main elements inherent in any IoT system, and all the hows and whys that every small to mid-sized manufacturer needs to know to get connected now. Tune in April 21st at 1:00pm (ET) and listen as we explore the brave new world of the Industrial Internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Steve Justice, Director of Georgia’s Center of Innovation for Aerospace and  Amy Kohler Hudnall, Deputy Director joins us to talk about the global aerospace industry and how entrepreneurial and educational partnerships are insuring the Southeast remains a leader in aerospace.  Steve Justice brings 35 years of aerospace experience at Lockheed-Martin, Gulfstream, Northrop, Delta and The Ginn Group to Mfg TalkRadio.  Listen for the opportunities for your company to participate in an industry that will build more than 40,000 aircraft over the next 20 years, with 20,000 built in China and 20,000 built elsewhere around the globe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mr. Brad Holcomb, Committee Chair of the ISM’s Report on Business presented the latest in-depth information on the PMI Purchasing Manager’s Index covering March 2015.  Brad offers listeners keen insights into the meaning behind the numbers. Mr. Holcomb will be joined by Dr. Ray Perryman who is President and CEO of The Perryman Group, an economic research and analysis firm based in Waco, Texas. Dr. Perryman has held numerous academic positions in his career including ten years as Herman Brown Professor of Economics and five years as University Professor and Economist-in-Residence at Baylor University, as well as five years as Business Economist-in-Residence at Southern Methodist University. He has authored several books and more than 400 academic papers, and has served as President of both the Southwestern Economic Association and the Southwestern Society of Economists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/31/15 - Special Guests - Al Samuel, Exec. Director of Aerospace Component Manufacturers “The World’s Aerospace Alley” ACM: World Leaders in Aerospace Since Flight Began ACM comprises one of the largest, most experienced concentrations of world-class aerospace companies, the world's AEROSPACE ALLEY! Our firms grew up where aerospace was born. Thier precision components take to the skies every day, in every corner of the globe, as they have since the inception of powered flight.ACM member companies are united by a single goal; be the world leader in providing customers with aerospace components of unsurpassed quality, at competitive prices and always, on-time delivery.ACM Informational VideoACM March 2015 Newsletter Update Max McIntyre, Vice President of Turbine Technologies in Farmington, CTTTi provides CNC Sinker Electric Discharge Machining (EDM), Wire Electric Discharge Machining (WEDM), High Speed Hole (HSH) and 5 Axis Milling services for the aerospace and IGT engine markets. The company has

LIVE Today at 1PM EST - Buyers overseas love Made in the USA and they’re willing to pay for the quality parts and products your employees produce.  With the help of US Department of Commerce’s Export Assistance Center, many small and mid-sized manufacturers can develop a new revenue stream for their business selling their products outside the country.Listen to Ryan Hollowell, and Katie Carney, and Christopher Almonte  discuss the financing programs and logistics support available to all US manufacturers to help move your products out of the starting gate and into the hands customers overseas.  If you’re not exporting your products, you are missing a rich and profitable revenue stream.Special Guest Katie Carney, Director of International and Customs Compliance, Livingston International, has 38 years experience in Customs Regulations and Logistics.  She began her career in 1975 and obtained her customs brokers license in 1980.  She currently sits on the Virginia Port Authority Advisory Conference and the Custom

3/17/15 – 3D Printing has been around for more than 25 years, but how is it being used in manufacturing? How can it be used? Special Guest Terry Wohlers, President of Wohlers Associates Inc. joins us at MFG Talk Radio to discuss new developments and trends in rapid product development and additive manufacturing. In their 28 year history, the Colorado-based independent consulting firm has provided advice to 150 companies in the investment community, most being institutional investors that represent mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity valued at billions of dollars. In addition to these companies, Wohlers Associates’ past work has involved over 240 client organizations in 24 countries around the world. Rick Lucas, Chief Technology Officer at ExOne will be on hand to talk about two areas where 3D Printing is currently useful: R&D rapid prototyping and replacement parts. Gain a sense of when/if 3D Printing will become a production line volume technology or will it be limited to R&D and re

Co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady chat with Kristin Carty, Audience Outreach Manager at Thomasnet a co-sponsor with ISM of the 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars program and two of the winners, Jennifer Wolff, Supply Chain Strategy Manager with Masco Cabinetry and Wes Whitney, Sourcing Specialist with Enterprise Products. Kristin will give highlights of the program while Jennifer and Wes will provide their insights about the exciting aspects of a career in the supply chain field, as well as the great working qualities of young workers. In addition, all 30 winners will be named on the show while bios about each one can be found at ThomasNet.com   Comments 0 comments Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mr. Brad Holcomb, Committee Chair of the ISM's Report on Business® will present the latest in-depth information on the PMI® Purchasing Manager’s Index covering February 2015.  Brad offers listeners keen insights into the meaning behind the numbers, and listeners are encouraged to obtain a copy of the report at www.ism.ws prior to the show so that they can follow along, especially making notes about their own industry highlighted in the report.Mr. Holcomb will be joined by Dr. Chris Kuehl, an economist who adds a touch of humor to what is happening and what may be coming in the ups and downs of America’s business engine. Chris also provides his quick wit comments on economies around the globe; what countries are doing well, which ones are blundering, and where the hot spots or soft spots appear.Brad Holcomb, CPSM, CPSD, is chair of the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. In that role, he is responsible for compiling, writing and releasing the ISM Manufacturing Report On Business®, based on the survey

2/24/15 – “The Holy Grail” of manufacturing could be here within this century, says futurist Michio Kaku. The current trends involving mass customisation and 3D printing are expected to accelerate. Joining us to discuss 3D printing will be Elizabeth Lennon Phd and Peter Lindner Phd of Manhattan College.Topics covered will be basic 3D printing processes (extrusion vs. stereo-lithography), industrial and personal 3D printing systems, rapid prototyping, and the perspective impact in different sectors (healthcare, advanced specially devices, mass produced items). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Think the West Coast port situation doesn’t affect you – or your kids?  Think again!  Special Guest U.S. Congressman Rod Blum joins us LIVE to discuss the worsening situation at the ports. Tune in to hear how the intentionally created congestion at the ports, and the products needed by America’s manufacturers to keep the jobs engine firing on all cylinders, is being ignored by the White House while retailers squirm under the scrutiny of customers who don’t understand why they can’t get the goods they ordered or the products they want. The ripple effects of raw materials not making it to manufacturing assembly lines, retail goods from the holidays arriving late but clogging warehouses, and retail products not being available for your spring shopping season are throwing sand in the gears of commerce across America and around the globe as the waves of disruption increase in size and intensity, washing against our productivity shores and erode America’s GDP, dragging more and more pieces of the 2015

Will They? Won't They? It Looks Imminent, Mr. President!With no contract, will the ILWU walk off the job and strike? Will the PMA lock out the workers as they did in 2002? If the West Coast ports are shut down at a cost to the country of nearly $2 billion a day, which seems likely given the breakdown in contract negotiations, thousands of containers coming into the U.S. and thousands more head out stuff with our exports will sit idle at the docks. Will the president invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to force the sides back to work by declaring a national emergency? Tune in to Manufacturing Talk Radio and get the latest update on how a port strike could further cripple America's manufacturing and potentially the whole economy for 2015.For those who have been following the recent ISM reports, and stories on mfgtalkradio.com one of the recurring concerns of respondents in both the manufacturing and service sector has been the congestion at West Coast Ports - which handled 43.5% of containerized cargo in the U.S and wh

Linda Rigano, Executive Director of Media Relations of ThomasNet, and M.L. Peck, Senior Vice President of Program and Product Development at ISM, gave listeners an exciting update on the 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars program and winners.The January PMI® discussed with Bradley J. Holcomb, CPSM, CPSD, chair of the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee.  Purchasing Managers’ Indices (PMI) are economic indicators derived from monthly surveys of private sector companies. The two principal producers of PMIs are Markit Group, which conducts PMIs for over 30 countries worldwide, and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), which conducts PMIs for the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 1/27/15 - Learn about the shift from “Us VS Them” to “Us & Them” as global sourcing of raw materials and components rewrites “Made in the USA.” Cliff Waldman, Director of Economic Studies at MAPI, the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation talks with Mfg TalkRadio’s hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady and presents his findings on the “Made in USA” label and the impact on the global supply chain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, economist, analyst and humorist returns to MFGtalkradio. Dr. Kuehl is a noted economist working with the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association International.Dr. Chris Kuehl will join show co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the last quarter of 2014, how 2014 finished overall, what the first quarter of 2015 portends, and the outlook for 2015 with his usual brand of humor and a touch of economic irreverence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discussion about wacky labels manufacturers are forced to put on their products to protect themselves from frivolous lawsuits, and some of the lawsuits that drive prices up and job creation down. Special guest Bob Dorigo Jones, serves as Senior Fellow for the Center for America, is the author of the bestselling Remove Child Before Folding, The 101 Stupidest, Silliest and Wackiest Warning Labels Ever. He is the host of a new national radio commentary, “Let’s Be Fair,” through which he shares important stories about the impact of crazy lawsuits and a litigation-happy culture on our communities and families. Bob has overseen high-profile programs calling attention to the absurdity of lawsuit abuse, including the internationally profiled annual Wacky Warning Labels Contest. Bob has appeared on dozens of national and international TV and radio programs, including NBC Nightly News, ABC News’ 20/20, BBC WorldNews, FOX News, and CNBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manufacturing Talk Radio co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady will be discussing the latest ISM Report on Business(R) with Brad Holcomb, Committee Chair at ISM that generates this information, as well as the Non-Manufacturing Report on Business(R) that was released by Tony Nieves, Committee Chair for that report. Jock O’Connell, International Trade Adviser with Beacon Economics will also be joining the show to discuss the West coast port situation. The main stream media is just now recognizing how this issue could impact the U.S. economy, and several respondents in the Report on Business(R) have commented that the West coast port calamity is hurting their production lines, holding up raw material and sub-assembly part arrivals from Asia. The port situation has also hit retail hard and may even begin to cause layoffs on assembly lines. Learn how your business could be impacted at 1:00 p.m. EST today LIVE right here at Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho

Manufacturing Talk Radio co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady will review the year of radio shows that were broadcast in 2014, and look ahead to news stories for 2015, including breaking news, new technology, economic forecasts, and exciting developments in manufacturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices