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Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0513 - Kyle Riegel - Schunk Carbon Technology Kyle Riegel is the Product Manager for the Current Transmission Division within Schunk Carbon Technology LLC.  He has spent his career involved with Electrical Carbon Products with an emphasis on the Wind Industry with several designs being used in the industry today.  In his career he has spent time as a design engineer, R...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0511 - Matteo Dariol - Bosch Rexroth Matteo Dariol is a lead innovation strategist for Bosch Rexroth, intrapreneur, technologist, AI and IIoT expert. Currently located in Bosch's innovation and co-creation space, the Chicago Connectory, his activities revolve around the intersection between R&D and product development, with the goal of harnessing new technologies and ex...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0510 - Erin bishop - Machine Inbound ERIN (RAPACKI) BISHOP Angel Investor, Serial Entrepreneur, CoFounder Spatial sim Spatial Sim is simplifying safety certification and risk assessment for behavioral machines (AI). Unlike field testing where dangerous or edge-case scenarios are impossible to duplicate reliably, Spatial Sim enables robot code updates to be verified and...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0509 - Bob Iossi - Bob has 40 years of experience in the Industrial & Commercial Machinery Automation and Robotics Business. He started with Caterpillar where he gained his machine knowledge and expanded his experience in Electrical/Electronic Engineering with Allen-Bradley/Reliance Electric, now Rockwell Automation for 25 years of starting as a Field Engineer, Applicat...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0508 - Dewayne Lowe - Transition Energy Group A little about me and my background. My name is Dewayne Lowe and I am the owner and president of Transition Energy Group LLC located in Birchwood TN. I have a BS in mechanical engineering and an MS in engineering management both from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. I am a certified energy manager (CEM) from the A...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0507 - Rodney Grover - InStride VP, Corporate Partnerships  Global Industrial Market  InStride Joining InStride in 2019, Rodney is responsible for leading development of InStride's workforce education and skills strategies in the Manufacturing and Industrial vertical. Rodney support s InStride's manufacturing partners' leadership in their journey to build, grow and main...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0506 - Devin Fidler - Rethinkery Devin Fidler is the Founder of Rethinkery , a research and consulting center focused on developing and using group intelligence to explore the emerging issues and technologies that are changing the way we get things done . He has worked with senior leaders at dozens of large organizations to chart shifts and to leverage their potential....

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0505 - Bill Hickey Jr - Lapham-Hickey ​ Bill Hickey is chairman of Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp.  Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp. is a steel service center founded in 1926.  This family owned and operated company has 11 locations with approximately 7 00 employees.  Lapham-Hickey is currently ranked as one of the top 50 service centers in the United States. ​ Bill has been employe...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0503 - Dean Phillips - LINK Systems Dean Phillips - Sales Engineer LINK Systems, Provides a unique look at our Destiny of Manufacturing taking a look at our entire Smart Manufacturing Transformation. An International Director for SME and an advisor to the Smart Mfg Advisory Committee Advisor to the PMA Safety Committee and contributor to the PMA training and educational...

Dr Tom Kurfess from Oak Ridge National Lab and Georgia Tech discusses AI and the future of manufacturing technology Longevity Industries presents Destiny of Manufacturing Podcast featuring Dr Tom Kurfess   Thomas R. Kurfess received his S.B., S.M. and Ph. D. degrees in mechanical engineering from M.I.T. in 1986, 1987 and 1989, respectively. He also received an S.M. degree from M.I.T. in electrical...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0501 - Dustin McMillan - Mcmillanco Mfg Dustin McMillan is the Owner of McMillanco Mfg.  Dustin created his company 7 years ago. He has founded the Mfgmonkey podcast.  MCMILLANCO, LLC. offers domestic and global manufacturing solutions. All of our partners are ISO9001. All projects that come from a global partner have a Level II PPAP inspection done on every project ens...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0419 - Tim Fabian - Shape Technologies Tim Fabian · Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Shape Technologies Tim Fabian is Vice-President of Marketing and Product Management for Shape Technologies, the world's leading supplier of waterjet technology and ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) manufacturing process solutions that includes industry leaders Flow Waterjet,...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0418 - Mont Handley - PitMoss Mont Handley is the Founder/Inventor of PittMoss a ten-year-old startup and Plantennas, his latest venture designed to use robots and automation in growing facilities and greenhouses.  He has served as the Associate Director and Entrepreneur in Residence at Purdue University Northwest Commercialization and Manufacturing Excellence Center fo...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0417 - Dave Bishop - Wila USA David Bishop is the business development manager over 40 years of experience in the manufacturing industry, having held positions in top positions at the world's leading press brake machine and tooling manufacturers. His experience extends to operations, product management, marketing, and sales departments. David has played a critical role...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0416 - Dr Jason Jones - Hybrid Mfg Technologies Previous Podcast with Jason Ep 109 Dr. Jason B. Jones is a pioneer in the combined use of Additive Manufacturing (AM) and CNC machining. He is the co-founder and CEO of Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies, which equips CNC machines with AM and laser processing capabilities. In 2015, Hybrid's AMBITTM multi-task tools were rec...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0415 - Eric Kam - ESI-Group Eric Kam is an Industry Marketing Manager for ESI-Group. He shares responsibility for evangelizing engineering applications applied to product designs and process plans to evaluate, identify, and resolve potential issues that prevent OEMs from reaching their desired outcome - Safe, productive, and sustainable products for the automotive, aero...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0414 - Russ Waddell - MT Connect Russ Waddell is the managing director for the MTConnect Institute and responsible for day-to-day business operations. He also sits on the Technical Steering Committee for the MTConnect standard. Prior to this role, Waddell worked at AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology as an industry economist where he provided statistical...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0413 Jeannine Kunz - vice president of Tooling U-SME.   She leads a team dedicated to the ongoing education of the manufacturing workforce. As a recognized authority on workforce development and training for the manufacturing community, Jeannine is focused on building the capabilities of today's and tomorrow's manufacturing workforce. Her vision and passion have put her...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0412- Jay Miller - Born Guitars  Jay has a B.S. MIS from DePaul University and a MBA in Business from CU Boulder. Jay started Born Guitars® in 2011 to build a better electric guitar - not only in terms of precision, quality and playability, but also in terms of sustainability. Since Born Guitars® started, Jay sees himself as an artist before a businessman, and continues...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0411 - Erin Valdez - The Bakery Cos Erin is the engineering manager at The Bakery Cos who makes buns for many local restaurants. BS from MTSU in Mech Eng. Erin manages most aspects of the facilities operation. Food Safety is mandatory and managing non-conformance is one aspect of the quality control system

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0410 - Daniel Mills - UAH Daniel Mills, is a junior studying computer engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His current position is a software engineering intern at JDM Solutions. He is often motivated by solving problems and finds fulfillment in helping others. You may find him programming, building, skateboarding, or playing cards in his free time.  

Mark Michalski is a lifelong engineer with over 40 years building factories and manufacturing systems that include novel approaches to digital process visibility and analytical control. He has worked in numerous industries, such as; medical devices (Zoll Medical), fuel cells (Acumentrics), power conversion and distribution (Bel Fuse), and semiconductors (MKS). Most recently Mark was honored to be...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0408 - Seymur Hasanov - TTU BS & MS in industrial engineering at Qafqaz University. He joined the ME department of Qafqaz University as a faculty member in 2015. He has taught advanced modeling, CAD/CAM, and Civil Eng Drawing. Seymur is a Ph. D. candidate and grad research asst in the ME dept of TTU. His research areas are in design for additive manufacturing, composite...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0407 - James Femi-Oyetoro - TTU a master candidate in ME department at TTU. He has BS in Mech Eng at U of Ibadan, Nigeria. A grad researcher at the AM Research Lab. His research is in machine learning in matls, printing parameter optimization in AM, ML, and renewable energy. Recipient of the SME43 award. He is a certified energy auditor by the CIET. Researcher for natio...

Destiny of Manufacturing EP 0406 - Zhicheng Zhang - TTU Zhicheng Zhang: Zhicheng is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Tennessee Tech University. He has BS in 2014 in Shandong Normal University and in 2015 in East Tennessee State University, MS in 2019 in Tennessee Tech University. His interests are in low-cost metal 3D printing and machine learning.