Manufacturing Talk Radio

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Jeff Burnstein, President of the Association for Advancing Automation, joins us to discuss the realities and misperceptions of how collaborative robots are transforming the manufacturing landscape. Many feel automation is threatening the industry’s workforce, but we’ll address manufacturing’s evolution and what’s in store for the coming years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Anderton, Content Director for www.engineering.com joins us for a look at the state of the machine tool industry. The US used to be the leader in machine tooling, but now Japan and Germany are the leading producers. How and why did this change take place, and why is it critical that we regain our former position? Is the government helping or hindering the industry’s recovery and what can be done to broaden the understanding of the machine tooling industry’s importance in the economy here and abroad? These are just some of the questions we’ll address in our episode focusing on the machine tool industry; past, present and future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) hosts a panel discussion on th best practices for hiring Veterans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Lew discusses the $15/hr minimum wage law in California and New York with KPRL host Dan Del Campo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rose Kelly-Falls from Rapid Ratings International and Carrie Ericson form A.T. Kearney discuss risk management and management consulting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ClientLoyalty is software that optimizes relationships between B2B buyers and suppliers. ClientLoyalty helps organizations continuously improve by analyzing direct feedback, social sentiment and operational data creating stronger bonds of loyalty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Live from ISM 2016 in Indianapolis - The Institute for Supply Management’s Senior Vice President, M.L. Peck joins Manufacturing Talk Radio to announce eISM, the exciting eLearning Resource to enhance the ISM Mastery Model introduced just last year that allows supply chain professionals and rising stars to continue their life long learning. Then several of the 30-Under-30 rising supply chain stars talk about some day-to-day supply chain challenges and solutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts Tim and Lew sit down with Tom Derry, the CEO of The Institute for Supply Management at ISM2016 in Indianapolis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mr. Brad Holcomb, Committee Chair of the ISM’s Report on Business® presents the latest in-depth information on the PMI® Purchasing Manager’s Index covering April 2016. Brad offered listeners keen insights into the meaning behind the numbers. Then stay with us as Armada Corporate Intelligence’s Chris Kuehl, PhD and economist with the FMA, adds humor and wit to the service and manufacturing sector’s Credit Managers’ Index and FMA’s Job Shop Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephen Gray, President and CEO of Gray Construction, a pioneering design-build company specializing in engineering, architecture and construction services for both domestic and international customers, will be with us to share insights into manufacturing trends from the design-build perspective.  Hear what’s on the mind of their manufacturing customers, and stay tuned to for a discussion on how and why US manufacturing competitiveness is on track to surpass China.  Manufacturing has changed, and as foreign investments return to the US, hear how the 56 year-old, family-based, Gray Construction headquartered in Lexington KY will continue to meet the expanding design-build and construction management needs of their core markets including manufacturing, automotive, food &beverage and distribution industries well into the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as Drura Parrish, CEO and Founder of MakeTime®, explains how this first on-demand machining platform provides turnkey CNC machining from qualified U.S. suppliers. With unprecedented visibility into available U.S. supply, MakeTime® will intelligently match projects of any size to local production capacity, as well as source material and schedule logistics at the point of production to keep costs down. Outmoded business processes, like time-consuming RFQs and multi-step certification requirements, become obsolete with intelligent automation that measurably cuts the soft costs of doing business while supply chain risks are mitigated through a unique distributed manufacturing model that guarantees quality and on-time delivery at competitive market rates. Manufacturing’s lumbering giant has become nimble and lean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celeste Catano, Sr. Global Strategist at Kewill and Amy Magnus, Director of Customs Affairs & Compliance at Deringer are back with Manufacturing Talk Radio to update us on the ongoing compliance and implementation issues of the eCustoms platform, the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). Listen in to hear how this program is impacting exporting and importing and stay informed about how, and if, your business will be affect effected.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cliff Waldman, Director of Economic Studies at the Manufacturer’s Alliance for Productivity and Innovation Foundation is with us again to present MAPI’s latest economic forecast, plus important research on productivity in manufacturing. It promises to be an interesting discussion of GDP, global economic trends and indicators, and an in-depth look at why, and how, slowing productivity growth remains an escalating concern. A must listen for manufacturing executives across America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can U.S. manufacturers compete globally when counterfeiting, cyber-attacks and piracy steal our intellectual property without penalty? Join us as Drew Greenblatt, Chairman of The National Alliance for Jobs and Innovation (NAJI) and Rob McKenna, partner at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, LLP, co-chair of its Public Policy Group, former Washington State Attorney General 2005-2013 and president of the National Association of Attorneys General 2011-2012 discuss how through NAJI, manufacturers and other businesses, associations and academics are working together to protect U.S innovation and prosecute those who poach our secrets. For more on NAJI, visit http://naji.org/report-ip-theft/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices