The Manufacturing Come Up

From sales and estimating, to design, project management and even purchasing, Jay has seen every side of custom machine building and automation.    Jays’ passion for building things came early. What started as a hobby building things with his dad in the garage carried over to tech classes in high school, and finally solidifying during his university summer job at label application compan...

A proven, seasoned business executive since 2009, that grew up in the manufacturing industry and knows all the ins and outs of HM Manufacturing. Has a passion to provide the highest quality products along with exceptional customer service. A lean thinker determined to solve business challenges and propositions, with a competitive edge through strategic production in manufacturing. A mindset to exc...

Kevin Cranker is CEO; Cranker’s son Nathan is the co-Operations manager. When asked how they came up with the idea for the Gorilla Mill brand, Cranker replied, “We were a local grind shop custom making tools and wanted to take the company and its products national. We wanted new branding that would be edgy, but not too over the top.” Management tried out various concepts and names over a three to...

Often referred to as the leader of The New American Manufacturing Renaissance, Andrew Crowe is one of the most influential people in manufacturing today. Andrew, or Drew as he prefers, strives to ignite and energize American manufacturing by exposing youth, community, political leaders, and underserved communities to this industry. His mission is to ensure that we put our best innovators, creators...

Watch our third episode with Nikki Gonzales! Nikki Gonzales was born in Iceland and by middle school ended up in Houston, TX after a short stop in England. She interned for her engineer turned entrepreneur dad all throughout school which led to a career as a sales engineer for machine vision systems and mechatronics. She spent 10 years in the field implementing and supporting factory automation so...

She is the imagineer behind Marketing Metal, the “anti-agency” designed to help small manufacturing business leaders create Real positive impact in their communities and the world at large. Her Radical process gives these trailblazers exactly what they need to skyrocket, IN JUST FEW DAYS! With an engineering background and over a decade of experience being the “ONE-WOMAN MARKETING SHOW” behind a h...

Watch our first episode tomorrow with Jacob Sanchez At the age of 23, Jacob is one of the youngest content creators in our industry. Over the past few decades, technology has slowly been enmeshing itself into our lives. Pretty much everything from retail to education has become dependent on technology and specifically, the internet. The same goes for business and marketing. Digital marketing strat...