Manufacturing Talk Radio

It is impossible to predict what the economic recovery will look like, and even dour indicators don't give a great indication of the future. But, listen to this Credit Manager's Index report and Dr. Kuehl's comment on the economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hydraulic manifolds regulate fluid flow to control the transfer of power between actuators and pumps. Nimit Patel, president of Hydraulic Manifolds discusses the engineered to order (ETO) work his company does for OEMs and standard uses for hydraulic manifolds with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Adriana Sanford joins hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the supply chain. She has authored two books about the supply chain, in addition to her many other accomplishments. Listen to find out if your manufacturing operations will be affected and what you can do about it. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

Dr. Daniel N. Watter a founding partner of the Morris Psychological Group, P.A., in Parsippany, New Jersey, who joins hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the psychological effects of a pandemic on people, and how they cope with the fear of isolation, sickness and death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of ‘Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture’, host Cliff Waldman continues his discussion of the deepening, pandemic-driven downturn in the US manufacturing sector. He explores the data from the latest survey report from the Institute for Supply Management as well as the latest industrial production report from the Federal Reserve. He reveals his forecast for U.S. manufactu...

Senior Correspondent Norbert Ore discusses the latest Purchasing Managers Index reports coming in from around the globe - just as the global pandemic began to hit. Prepare yourself for next month by gaining an understanding of this discussion with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this NEC webinar, Cliff Waldman of New World Economics, Kristin Dziczek of the Center for Automotive Research and Don Leavens of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association will discuss the impacts of the global coronavirus pandemic on US manufacturing. Panelists will discuss the hit to total manufacturing growth and the growth of key manufacturing subsectors before considering plausible...

It seems so simple – it has wheels on it, you load it up and move it – until it becomes industrial. Then, casters matter, weight matters, direction matters, speed matters – and someone who knows the right casters for the right application matters. Hear Joe Lyden discuss the oft-overlooked science of casters with co-hosts, Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

Kristjan Vilosius is CEO of Katana, a unique software as a service to help manufacturers move from spreadsheets to modern software, and open the new and exciting channel of DTC - Direct to Consumer sales of product. This is a growing trend in manufacturing that hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady have been hearing about in interviews, industry periodicals and events, and it is something you can explore...

The Credit Manager's job is to evaluate the ability to get paid, but what happens when the economy shuts down? Dr. Chris Kuehl discusses the unprecedented possibilities with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is legacy lunacy? Modern, cloud-based software creates efficiencies with favorable ROIs when integrated correctly. Listen as Tushar Patel, Chief Marketing Officer of CLEO, discusses their solutions in designing, deploying, operating and optimizing the integration of legacy systems with modern software, with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

Sunny Han, founder and CEO of Fulcrum, joins hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss integrating legacy software and paper-based processes with one software system to provide manufacturers with end-to-end visibility of their production operations so they can actually improve the process rather than merely managed it. This is a jump into Industry 4.0 without the pain. Learn more about your ad choi...

Norbert Ore, Senior Correspondent for Industry Surveys for Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses crisis management, and why risk management is key to surviving the impact of an unexpected event, in this discussion with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Preparing for the next crisis will help you get through this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is unlikely that very many economists ever thought they would have to contemplate the impact of a rapidly spreading, globally menacing pathogen on the economic outlook. But that day is upon us. Of course at Manufacturing Talk Radio, our focus is on the US manufacturing sector. In this episode of ‘Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture’, host Cliff Waldman will discuss the just-released...

Remember when Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla truck and the windows shattered?  It didn't have to be!  Hear Shawn Kitchell, President and CEO of Madico, a coating solutions manufacturer that makes coatings for windows discuss the many solutions they provide for business, industry and consumers in this fun discussion with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

In this episode, Shawn DuBravac, Chief Economist of IPC, and Falan Yinug, Director of Industry Statistics and Economic Policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association, discuss the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak on the electronics and semiconductor industries. Both guests respond to questions about fundamental price and employment outcomes but also discuss broader issues such as the lessons f...

Ben Marsh is CEO of Scout Systems. He travels the world helping manufacturers implement Industry 4.0 technology. Learn how to do it in this interview with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, senior economic correspondent for Manufacturing Talk Radio always brings in so much more insightful commentary as he discusses the latest Credit Manager's Index report and other economic situations, including the coronavirus in this conversation with host Tim Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Manufacturing Talk Radio, Hosts Lew and Tim welcome Johanna Bellenberg, Director Marketing & Communications for Picavi, all the way from Germany. Picavi's full line of assisted reality and augmented reality glasses enable logistics workers to keep important information in front of them yet keep their hands free, visually guiding them through the picking process, increasing produ...

In this episode, Ray Keefe, President of Lean Enterprise Strategies, LLC and former Vice President of Manufacturing for Emerson discusses the Lean manufacturing paradigm. After defining Lean and providing an overview of its progress in US manufacturing, Ray discusses Lean metrics and Lean benefits. He then explains the impact of digitization on Lean implementation. The episode concludes with a dis...

Learn what Xometry can do for your business from Greg Paulson, Director of Application Engineering, as he discusses Xometry's on-demand manufacturing service with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady that opens up capabilities for your manufacturing needs. This is Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS) at its best! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patirck Moorhead, Chief Marketing Officer for start-up PriceFX joins hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to chat about the current state and future of price optimization in manufacturing. Learn how to rapidly improve profitability through price optimization! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nobert Ore, Senior Correspondent for Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses the Purchasing Manager's Indexes of other countries and regions of the U.S. with hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady. There is a manufacturing shift in the making - find out what it is! For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the third episode of ‘Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture’, host Cliff Waldman reviews the latest manufacturing growth data from the Federal Reserve as well as the latest Purchasing Managers’ Index from the Institute for Supply Management. For macroeconomic context, he then discusses the most recent US and global economic data. The impact of the spreading novel coronavirus is discus...

Nicole Wolter, President of HM Manufacturing in Wauconda, IL, joins hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the USMCA. She was an advocate for passage for small and midsize businesses across America. For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices