Manufacturing Talk Radio

Dr. Chris Kuehl, Managing Partner at Armada Corporate Intelligence, discusses the unpredictable conditions that have economic prognosticators befuddled. The Fed’s attempts to break inflation by raising rates and triggering unemployment is vexed by manufacturers hanging on to skilled labor, who were difficult to find and expensive to hire. So far, the most accurate predictor of future manufacturing conditions is ASIS, or the Armada Strategic Intelligence System, with its excellent sector-by-sector analysis of manufacturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Dohnalek, President and CEO of Pivot International presents how his firm help companies or individuals move their product, software, or system concept through the stages of development to complete a prototype or finished project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liron Ben-Horin, President of OneLayer, discusses why 5G is vital for manufacturers, how to get it implemented on top of your existing network, and where it benefits overall operations and security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ISM Sees A Soft Expansion For Manufacturing And Services Tim Fiore, Committee Chair for the Manufacturing Report on Business® and Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the Services Report on Business® join hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the results of ISM’s survey on business conditions for the balance of 2023. So far, conditions do not indicate that business is headed into a recession in 2023 as either a soft landing or a hard one, but rather a soft expansion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stu Johnson, Vice President of Marketing for Rootstock explains how to simplify a manufacturing implementation of ERP on the Salesforce using Rootstock, where most of the development work to integrate the platform has been completed for you, without having to make your business fit someone else's mold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Economic activity in the services sector expanded in April for the fourth consecutive month as the Services PMI® registered 51.9 percent, say the nation’s purchasing and supply executives in the latest Services ISM® Report On Business®. The sector has grown in 34 of the last 35 months, with the lone contraction in December.Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the ISM’s Services Report on Business® discusses the Services sectors in detail. Only on Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timothy Fiore, Chair of the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee gives us an inside look at the report and insight into what the future may hold for the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. and Manufacturing Talk Radio Host Lew Weiss discuss the current state of reshoring and possible solutions to reducing our $1.2 trillion trade deficit with China.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kerrie Jordan, Vice President of Product Management – Data Platform at Epicor discusses working in manufacturing from the perspective of the employee, based on the “Findings from the Voice of the Essential Manufacturing Worker” survey of 200 manufacturing workers by Epicor. This insightful conversation with show host Lew Weiss is Part One of a two-part series discussing internal manufacturing relationships in the near-term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of 'Manufacturing Think Tank With Cliff Waldman,' host Cliff Waldman welcomes McKinsey and Company partner Charles Atkins to discuss McKinsey's latest productivity study of which he is a coauthor. After summarizing the basic findings of the research, Charles answers a wide range of questions on such issues as measurement challenges in productivity research, the role of technology in productivity outcomes and the impact of management practice on productivity performance. The episode concludes with a discussion of supply chains and their relationship to productivity outcomes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Artem Kroupenev, VP Strategy at Augury, discusses how AI is working in manufacturing plants to maintain machine health and overall plant efficiency, creating a rapid ROI along with all the benefits AI brings to the Big Data picture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Part 2, Artem Kroupenev, VP Strategy at Augury, goes into greater detail how AI is working in manufacturing plants to maintain machine health and overall plant efficiency, creating a rapid ROI along with all the benefits AI brings to the Big Data picture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl discusses current conditions in manufacturing including excess inventory that is dampening demand which may last into the third quarter. Then conditions reflected in the ASIS report show a likely improvement for Q4. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the ISM’s Services Report on Business® discusses the Services sectors in detail. Only on Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in March for the fifth consecutive month following a 28-month period of growth, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®.The latest Manufacturing ISM Report has the Manufacturing PMI at 46.3%. Timothy Fiore, Chair of the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee gives us an inside look at the report and insight into what the future may hold for the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Moser On Manufacturing, Harry Moser takes a deep dive into the ongoing issue of the skills gap in America. As Harry succinctly states, "Our country has misallocated it resources. Too much education that doesn’t lead to a career and not enough training that would lead to career.” Harry and Lew take a close look at the cumulative wealth advantage and lifetime earnings potential for an English major vs a tool a die maker and the numbers will surprise you. Don’t miss this important episode of Moser On Manufacturing only on Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Manufacturing Think Tank, host Cliff Waldman welcomes Mark Vitner, Chief Economist at Piedmont Crescent Capital to the show. Mark and Cliff discuss the current crisis in the global banking system, what further steps policy makers can take in the wake of the SVP and Credit Suisse situations, Mark's outlook for the U.S. economy and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joel Zielke, Business Manager for Steamfitters 601, discusses the types of jobs and career path available to individuals who want to be earning 6 figures 5 years from when they start with good money and great benefits as they grow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Iacovella, Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications at the Coalition for a Prosperous America shares alarming information about how and where many generic prescription drugs are manufactured that can represent a danger to your health instead of an effective treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, Managing Partner of Armada Corporate Intelligence, discusses the status of U.S. banks, what caused the Silicon Valley Bank failure, and the health of manufacturing in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices