Manufacturing Talk Radio

On this special live episode of Manufacturing Talk Radio hosts, Lew and Tim welcome back Tim Fiore to discuss the latest report. The November Manufacturing PMI® registered 49%. This is 1.2 percentage points lower than the 50.2 % in October. Today's Manufacturing PMI® figure is the lowest it's been since May 2020, when it registered 43.5 %. Listen in as Tim Fiore sheds light on the factors that contributed to this month’s report. Every month Tim Fiore joins Manufacturing Talk Radio live the day the report is released (the first business day of the month) to give his unique perspective on the latest report. Subscribe to Manufacturing Talk Radio on your favorite podcast platform or YouTube to stay informed on the latest manufacturing news with new episodes every week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of "Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture", host Cliff Waldman previews a presentation that he will give at an upcoming global conference on small and medium enterprises to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cliff discusses an emerging policy paradigm for stimulating regional advanced manufacturing strength. His presentation focuses on a simple but powerful question: How can we use entrepreneurship to provoke dynamic and sustainable industrialization? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wade Phillips, Managing Director of Seraph, discusses the methods the company uses to stop a crisis from its spiral, stabilizing the situation, establishing sustainability, and then stepping back from what was once the brink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, Managing Partner of Armada Corporate Intelligence, discusses the sector-specific, country-centric characteristics as global economies soften and some slip into recession. It won't be awful for everyone unless another black swan event makes it worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Moser On Manufacturing, Harry stresses the importance of consumers communicating to retailers their desire to buy made-in-USA products and that retailers should make it easy to find those products on their shelves. Lew and Harry talk about what defines “made in America” when it comes to the parts used in a product, and Lew shares his solution for the skills gap by way of immigration policy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Santhanam, CEO of the Fernweh Group, an investment company, is adapting an engaged investor and operator model (EIOM) to create alpha in the industrial and industrial technology sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Lilly, President and CEO of LillyWorks discusses how to improve manufacturing performance through the application of technology in the world of Industry 4.0, IIoT, Machine Learning, and AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

On this special live episode of Manufacturing Talk Radio hosts Lew and Tim welcome back Tim Fiore to discuss the latest report. The October Manufacturing PMI® registered 50.2%. While this represents a 0.7% dip since September’s PMI of 50.9% we are technically still in expansion territory but inching ever closer to contraction. Listen in as Tim Fiore sheds light on the factors that contributed to this month’s report including a drop in new orders and backlogs, increased raw materials inventories and an overall decrease in prices.  Every month Tim Fiore joins Manufacturing Talk Radio live the day the report is released (the first business day of the month) to give his unique perspective on the latest report. Subscribe to Manufacturing Talk Radio on your favorite podcast platform or YouTube and stay informed on the latest manufacturing news with new episodes every week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Moser On manufacturing, Harry Moser and Lew Weiss discuss a variety of topics as they relate to reshoring including skilled labor and immigration, and how it relates to the challenge of growing the GDP. As Harry explains, in order to grow the GDP, you need to increase the workforce, production, or ideally both. Harry also talks about Germany’s looming energy crisis brought on by their manufacturing industry's reliance on Russian natural gas. Could this result in production moving to the U.S.? All this and more on this episode of Moser On Manufacturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frank joins Lew and Tim to discuss machine integrations in manufacturing and why they are possible for small to mid-sized companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of "Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture", host Cliff Waldman offers the high points of a series of talks that he will be giving on the outlook for the increasingly troubled global economy. He begins by identifying the confluence of forces that have created the most difficult global inflation problem in four decades. Cliff explains that growing tensions with Russia and China have added to the outlook risks of a world economy that is contending with high inflation, rapidly rising interest rates and currency instability. He concludes by discussing a number of permanent changes that will come from this period of great challenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl discusses the unusual force driving the U.S. economy that the Fed's anti-inflation rate increases cannot control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Precision manufacturing cannot be achieved without a solid foundation. Literally. Principal and Senior Structural Engineer at Larson & Darby Group Bill Waldorf sits down with Lew and Tim to talk about what exactly goes into the structural foundation of a modern manufacturing facility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Services ISM Report for Sept 2022 with special guest Anthony Nieves, chair of the Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Committee for the Institute for Supply Management. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Fiore, Committee Chair of the ISM’s Manufacturing Report on Business(R) discusses the September 2022 Purchasing Manager’s Index. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The International Manufacturing Technology Show is the largest and longest-running industry trade show in the Western Hemisphere. Host Harry Moser was one of the over 86,000 people on hand and gives us his recap of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of 'Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture', host Cliff Waldman introduces the new video format for his show. In this first video episode he offers a discussion of the future of U.S. manufacturing at this time of heightened global economic and geopolitical turmoil. He notes that at least in the short-term the future of manufacturing is very much tied to the economic and geopolitical future of the world. He then discusses critical issues with the manufacturing labor force, manufacturing entrepreneurship, and the development and deployment of manufacturing production technologies. The episode concludes with a discussion of public policy as an increasingly potent influence on the future of U.S. industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manufacturing Talk Radio welcomes Ara Surenian from Plex, the Smart Manufacturing Platform that connects your people, systems, machines, and supply chains. Lew and Ara discuss Plex’s products which include Enterprise Resource Planning, Manufacturing Execution System, Supply Chain Planning, Production Monitoring and more. Find out how to run your manufacturing operations more efficiently on this episode of Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl talks candidly about world events and their economic impact on business and industry from his perspective at Armada Corporate Intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices