Manufacturing Talks

Apr 22 2024 4
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There are millions of cool stories in manufacturing. Your host, Jim Vinoski, helps share them by talking to the people who are making them happen. Manufacturing is where the rubber meets the road. There's no hiding. You're either making good products people will buy for enough to keep you in business, or you're not. Meet the amazing folks who thrive in that survival-of-the-fittest world.

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Our gravelly-voiced announcer John Farabee joins us for Episode 100 to talk supply chains

Apr 22 2024 35 mins  
Yes indeed, Episode 100 is upon us! We could have a celebrity or a head of state as a guest, but it was obvious the right choice was a guy that fans of the show have heard from many times before! John Farabee, our intro and outro voice-over guy, is also one of the most knowledgeable and insightful supply chain gurus we know. So as the only other guy besides our host whose voice has

Artem Kroupenev from Augury talks about using AI to improve plant capacity and predictability

Apr 15 2024 35 mins  
Augury got its start using a unique way to monitor manufacturing machine health: the sound of the equipment! It's one of those ideas that, once you hear it, seems so blindingly obvious - except you didn't think of it!Now they have over 150 of the largest manufacturers as customers, and they continue to grow.The company uses AI to reduce waste and downtime and to improve p

David Schild and the PCBAA are on a mission to rebuild America's printed circuit board industry

Apr 08 2024 27 mins  
Like too much of American manufacturing, our domestic production capacity for printed circuit boards - the things on which the computer chips that power so much of our world anymore reside - departed decades ago for other lands.Now we're too dependent on foreign nations for that supply, and especially worrying is how much we're dependent on a potential geopolitical advers

Frank Seidel of Wamser Batra USA explains why and how US manufacturers should expand into India

Apr 01 2024 33 mins  
Manufacturing looks like it's turning the corner here in the US, so now is a good time for our domestic producers to look at expanding their businesses. Frank Seidel, Managing Director at Wamser Batra USA, thinks India is a great market to look at, and he joined us to tell us why that is and what companies here need to do about it. He looks at demographics and income growth an

Shawn Connors of the Atomic Garage Movement explains why he's a staunch advocate for nuclear energy

Mar 25 2024 38 mins  
At one time, when he lived in the shadow of southwest Michigan's Palisades nuclear power plant, former business owner, author, and employee communications guru Shawn Connors opposed nuclear energy. But then he decided to do his own research and discovered that the horror stories in the media that had convinced him nukes were dangerous were just plain wrong.That's when he

Aaron Halfacre of Modiv chats about how and why his company invests in manufacturing properties

Mar 18 2024 31 mins  
Modiv is a real estate investment trust (REIT). That's company uses investor money to trade in real estate. For Modiv, it's not just any real estate - the company focuses entirely on manufacturing properties, investing in industrial properties via long-term net leases. Their CEO, Aaron Halfacre, joins us for Episode 95 to tell us why that's a good business propositio

Simeon Wallis and Michael Lange from Aprio bring us the latest quarterly manufacturing outlook

Mar 11 2024 28 mins  
Episode 94 once more features our friends from Aprio, a CPA-led advisory firm with over 700 clients in their Manufacturing and Distribution Practice. Simeon Wallis and Michael Lange join us to discuss their latest quarterly "Manufacturing and Distribution Insights" report, which is a great look into the state of business for American industry.Simeon is Chief Investment Of

Ankush Malhotra talks about Fluke Reliability's use of AI to improve preventive maintenance

Mar 04 2024 26 mins  
Fluke Reliability has been a mainstay in manufacturing maintenance for a long, long time. With tools like temperature and vibration monitors and acoustic and thermal imaging, they've helped make true preventive maintenance a reality for industry. So it was extremely informative for Episode 93 to chat with their president, Ankush Malhotra, about their recent acquisition of Azim

James Hohman of the Mackinac Center tells why subsidies for manufacturers are bad news

Feb 26 2024 36 mins  
Doesn't it seem like every single day now brings fresh news of another monstrous dollop of tax money is being given away somewhere in the US to coerce some manufacturer to build and "create jobs?" That's great news, right?Not so much, and James Hohman, Director of Fiscal Policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy right here in Michigan, is here to tell us w

Harry Moser of the Reshoring Initiative discusses how to bring more manufacturing back to America

Feb 19 2024 41 mins  
Starting first with the supply chain and production disruptions of the pandemic, and now being reinforced by the unrest in the Middle East, the idea that outsourcing manufacturing is always a cost savings move has been shown to be wrong.Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative, has been saying that for years. In fact, he came up with a calculation tool, the To