Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlways Be Exiting: How Manufacturers Build Value Years Before a Sale w/ Eric Wiklendt
Episode 329
When a private equity firm buys a manufacturing business, closing the deal isn't completion. It's commencement, the start of five to seven years of w…
10 hours ago
Growing Women Leaders in Manufacturing w/ Allison Grealis
Episode 328
Manufacturing has spent years asking how to get more women into the industry. Allison Roberts Grealis, founder and president of the Women in Manufact…
1 week ago
The Next Chapter of SEO: How Manufacturers Get Recommended by AI w/ Grace Wright
Episode 327
There's a new acronym for it every week: AEO, GEO, LLMO, AI SEO. Grace Wright, VP of Innovation at Gorilla 76, will tell you that regardless of what …
2 weeks ago
Why Your Toughest Parts Still Use 50-Year-Old Materials w/ Fazal Mahmood
Episode 326
Co-founder and CEO of Phaseshift Technologies, Fazal Mahmood, will tell you that much of modern industry still runs on metal alloys introduced half a…
3 weeks ago
How Safety Drives Your Bottom Line and Why It Starts With You w/ Brian Fielkow
Episode 325
Ask everyone in your company one question: who's responsible for safety? About half will say the safety manager, and Brian Fielkow, consultant and au…
4 weeks ago
It's Not a Workforce Issue, It's a Workflow Issue w/ Alex Torrey
Episode 324
The headlines say American manufacturing has a workforce crisis. Alex Torrey, co-founder and CEO of AIC, America's Innovation Corporation, will tell …
1 month ago
When Your Shop Is No Longer Bound by Geography w/ Sanjeev Singh Sahni
Episode 323
Books are more than 80% bought online. Electronics, more than 50%. Custom manufactured parts? Less than 1%. CEO of Xometry, Sanjeev Sahni, believes t…
1 month, 1 week ago
Six Facilities, Three Countries, One Culture w/ Darragh de Stonndún
Episode 322
Robots rarely break. Vision systems keep getting smarter. In automation, the technology has gotten so good that it's no longer what separates one com…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Success Trap: How Winning the Big Contract Can Also Break You w/ Chris Hale
Episode 321
Founder and CEO of Klear, Chris Hale, will tell you that companies rarely fail for lack of demand. They fail when capital falls out of sync with oper…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Using AI to Right-Size Inventory and Kill Shortages w/ Richard Lebovitz
Episode 320
Founder and chief strategy officer of LeanDNA, Richard Lebovitz, will tell you that one of the biggest causes of part shortages isn't what you'd expe…
2 months ago