Manufacturing Talk Radio

In this episode of 'Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture', host Cliff Waldman will review the latest data and forecasts from an increasingly difficult and risky global economic picture. Cliff will discuss the significant downward revisions to global growth forecasts, the increasingly aggressive campaign from the Federal Reserve to tame elevated inflation, the global growth and inflation...

Brad Pope, Head of Customer Success for Kinsa, discusses the company's Smart Thermometer and confidential health information gathering tool to predict consumer demand for cold and flu season products based on when outbreaks are happening in real-time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, senior international correspondent with Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses the purchasing conditions in countries around the world, and headwinds that might hit the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nancy LeMaster, committee chair for the Institute for Supply Management’s Hospital Purchasing Managers Report on Business(R) discusses the front line battle with Covid that occurs behind the scenes at hospitals across the country and the apparent improvement in wellness as America shifts from Pandemic to epidemic. The industry is cautiously optimistic that the virulence of this virus has waned as...

Naiose Irwin, CEO of Solarflux, discusses the innovative solutions and rapid ROI of converting to inexpensive, scalable solar-thermal power that results in zero emissions without the use of carbon credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the ISM’s Services Report on Business® discusses the latest report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Fiore, Committee Chair of the ISM’s Manufacturing Report on Business® discusses the PMI (Purchasing Manager’s Index) details that continue to show expansion, the major PMI categories impacting the overall number, and industry sectors showing strengths and weaknesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harry Moser, Founder and President of the Reshoring Initiative, discusses what is happening in manufacturers bringing production, and jobs, back to America. Offshoring, particularly to Asia, has lost much of its cost benefits, especially with wages in China rising and the loss of intellectual property. The mood of America towards products produced in China has shifted from ambivalent to averse. Le...

Liran Akavia, Co-Founder and COO at Seebo (www.seebo.com) helps manufacturers document their production processes, from raw material inputs to completed products output to identify hidden, incremental improvements that translate into significant cost reductions, yield increase, quality improvements, and bottom-line benefits. Currently being used by several companies in food manufacturing, baked go...

John Mead, Vice President of Sales for Totalogistix, helps manufacturers find the hidden savings in the movement of their goods, from raw materials to finished products, overlooked in their supply chain and the invoices manufacturers pay - and often over-pay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, speaks to the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) today about interest Rate hikes and the state of the economy as the Fed looks forward in 2022 and grapples with Inflation. Cliff Waldman, President of New World Economics, speaks for the meeting in a special news brief wrap-up of Chairman powells remarks in a live episode on Manufacturi...

Mike Kotvian, Managing Director for Kivnon USA discusses mobile robotic solutions for factory floors, warehouses, and distribution centers to handle materials from storage to production lines to inventory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, senior international correspondent with Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses the purchasing conditions in countries around the world, and headwinds that might hit the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Barry Sample Ph. D., senior director of science and technology, at Quest Diagnostics, and a board-certified forensic toxicologist discusses workplace drug use, how companies can test for it, how employees feel about it, and the decline in drug use at companies that do test for it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nancy LeMaster, Committee Cahir of the ISM's Hospital Report on Business(R) indicates that elective procedures are increasing in hospitals, meaning that hospitals can provide care and beds for patients with conditions other than COVID. The industry remains cautiously optimistic that the pandemic is shifting to an epidemic, meaningless cases, and less serious cases. Learn more about your ad choices...

Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the ISM’s Services Report on Business® discusses the impact of the bottlenecked supply chain on the services sector, which could extend into next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Fiore, Committee Chair for the ISM Manufacturing Report on Business(R), discusses the continued strength in manufacturing for the PMI (Purchasing Manager’s Index) as raw material costs continue to increase, labor remains constrained, and the supply chain becomes a serious concern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of 'Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture', Dr. Dean Foreman, Chief Economist of the American Petroleum Institute, joined host Cliff Waldman for a wide-ranging discussion of energy issues, present, and future. Dean overviewed oil market distortions arising from the pandemic, Russian aggression, inflation and supply chain challenges. He also offered analysis of the markets...

Tina Zwolinski, CEO and Founding Partner of SkillsGapp, discusses how manufacturers can get 20- and 30-year olds engaged with manufacturing through skills training built on gaming designed for each manufacturer's specific needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, senior international correspondent with Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses the purchasing conditions in countries around the world, and headwinds that might hit the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Wallace, Co-Founder and President of Innerview, presents the critical concern where frontline staff may be presenting very different information about the company to customers instead of the correct brand information, and how that can be corrected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hospitals continue to bear the brunt of Covid and it will be several months before any flattening of the Covid curve will reduce the strain on ICU's, hospital beds, and employees leaving the industry because the strain of work hours and loss of life has become too much to handle emotionally and psychologically. Vaccine mandates have also pushed people out of the industry, as it has across many ind...

Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the ISM’s Services Report on Business® discusses the latest report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Cliff Waldman was in attendance to hear Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell address NABE's Economic Policy Conference in Washington DC last week. Hear his take on the content of his speech and the implications for interest rates and inflation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, senior international correspondent with Manufacturing Talk Radio, discusses the purchasing conditions in countries around the world, and headwinds that might hit the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices