American Made

Deploying 200 workers to a plant in 72 hours sounds impossible, but Joel Zimmerman and Michele Vincent walk through how they actually do it.  In this episode of American Made, they unpack the real world scenarios that trigger large scale deployments, from seasonal surges in the Midwest to urgent plant expansions that local hiring cannot cover. Joel and Michele explain how MADICORP’s supervisors, t...

Contract labor has a reputation problem, and Joel Zimmerman and Michele Vincent are out to separate bad temp experiences from structured, high-skill staffing that actually reduces risk. In this episode of American Made, they lay out the difference between dumping a hundred unvetted locals on your supervisors and bringing in experienced contract crews with their own leadership, training alignment,...

Joel Zimmerman and Michele Vincent break down why the manufacturing labor crisis runs deeper than “no one wants to work” and how it is reshaping decisions about where factories get built. They connect demographic realities, addiction, pandemic-driven retirements, and years of steering people away from the trades to the talent shortages manufacturers feel on the floor every day. The conversation mo...

Third shift can make or break a plant, and Joel Zimmerman and Michele Vincent are tired of seeing it treated like an afterthought. American Made tackles how nights become both a production advantage and a magnet for burnout, safety concerns, and turnover when they are staffed from the same shallow local pool. Drawing on years of running traveling third-shift crews, Joel and Michele break down why...

The 2026 oil and petrochemical pattern agreement could reshape U.S. fuel supply, and Joel Zimmerman and Michele Vincent want operators ready before talks turn into trouble. In this episode of American Made, they pull from decades of strike staffing and strike security experience to explain what it really takes to keep a refinery or petrochemical plant running during a labor dispute. They lay out h...

American Made is the show for U.S. manufacturing leaders who carry the weight of output, uptime, staffing, and safety every week. Hosted by Joel Zimmerman, President and CEO of MADICORP, and Michele Vincent, Vice President, it turns three decades of labor experience into clear moves for running plants with thin crews and rising expectations. Episodes tackle the labor crisis on the ground, from sho...

American Made starts from a hard line: American manufacturing rises or falls on workers at the plant, not on headlines about reshoring. Ops leaders win or lose their week at the moment a shift either has a full, skilled crew or runs short. This channel is built for U.S. manufacturing leaders who own output, uptime, staffing, and safety in single-location plants with 100 or more employees. Hosted b...