Manufacturing Talk Radio

Think the West Coast port situation doesn’t affect you – or your kids?  Think again!  Special Guest U.S. Congressman Rod Blum joins us LIVE to discuss the worsening situation at the ports. Tune in to hear how the intentionally created congestion at the ports, and the products needed by America’s manufacturers to keep the jobs engine firing on all cylinders, is being ignored by the White House while retailers squirm under the scrutiny of customers who don’t understand why they can’t get the goods they ordered or the products they want. The ripple effects of raw materials not making it to manufacturing assembly lines, retail goods from the holidays arriving late but clogging warehouses, and retail products not being available for your spring shopping season are throwing sand in the gears of commerce across America and around the globe as the waves of disruption increase in size and intensity, washing against our productivity shores and erode America’s GDP, dragging more and more pieces of the 2015

Will They? Won't They? It Looks Imminent, Mr. President!With no contract, will the ILWU walk off the job and strike? Will the PMA lock out the workers as they did in 2002? If the West Coast ports are shut down at a cost to the country of nearly $2 billion a day, which seems likely given the breakdown in contract negotiations, thousands of containers coming into the U.S. and thousands more head out stuff with our exports will sit idle at the docks. Will the president invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to force the sides back to work by declaring a national emergency? Tune in to Manufacturing Talk Radio and get the latest update on how a port strike could further cripple America's manufacturing and potentially the whole economy for 2015.For those who have been following the recent ISM reports, and stories on mfgtalkradio.com one of the recurring concerns of respondents in both the manufacturing and service sector has been the congestion at West Coast Ports - which handled 43.5% of containerized cargo in the U.S and wh

Linda Rigano, Executive Director of Media Relations of ThomasNet, and M.L. Peck, Senior Vice President of Program and Product Development at ISM, gave listeners an exciting update on the 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars program and winners.The January PMI® discussed with Bradley J. Holcomb, CPSM, CPSD, chair of the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee.  Purchasing Managers’ Indices (PMI) are economic indicators derived from monthly surveys of private sector companies. The two principal producers of PMIs are Markit Group, which conducts PMIs for over 30 countries worldwide, and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), which conducts PMIs for the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 1/27/15 - Learn about the shift from “Us VS Them” to “Us & Them” as global sourcing of raw materials and components rewrites “Made in the USA.” Cliff Waldman, Director of Economic Studies at MAPI, the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation talks with Mfg TalkRadio’s hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady and presents his findings on the “Made in USA” label and the impact on the global supply chain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, economist, analyst and humorist returns to MFGtalkradio. Dr. Kuehl is a noted economist working with the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association International.Dr. Chris Kuehl will join show co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the last quarter of 2014, how 2014 finished overall, what the first quarter of 2015 portends, and the outlook for 2015 with his usual brand of humor and a touch of economic irreverence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discussion about wacky labels manufacturers are forced to put on their products to protect themselves from frivolous lawsuits, and some of the lawsuits that drive prices up and job creation down. Special guest Bob Dorigo Jones, serves as Senior Fellow for the Center for America, is the author of the bestselling Remove Child Before Folding, The 101 Stupidest, Silliest and Wackiest Warning Labels Ever. He is the host of a new national radio commentary, “Let’s Be Fair,” through which he shares important stories about the impact of crazy lawsuits and a litigation-happy culture on our communities and families. Bob has overseen high-profile programs calling attention to the absurdity of lawsuit abuse, including the internationally profiled annual Wacky Warning Labels Contest. Bob has appeared on dozens of national and international TV and radio programs, including NBC Nightly News, ABC News’ 20/20, BBC WorldNews, FOX News, and CNBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manufacturing Talk Radio co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady will be discussing the latest ISM Report on Business(R) with Brad Holcomb, Committee Chair at ISM that generates this information, as well as the Non-Manufacturing Report on Business(R) that was released by Tony Nieves, Committee Chair for that report. Jock O’Connell, International Trade Adviser with Beacon Economics will also be joining the show to discuss the West coast port situation. The main stream media is just now recognizing how this issue could impact the U.S. economy, and several respondents in the Report on Business(R) have commented that the West coast port calamity is hurting their production lines, holding up raw material and sub-assembly part arrivals from Asia. The port situation has also hit retail hard and may even begin to cause layoffs on assembly lines. Learn how your business could be impacted at 1:00 p.m. EST today LIVE right here at Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho

Manufacturing Talk Radio co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady will review the year of radio shows that were broadcast in 2014, and look ahead to news stories for 2015, including breaking news, new technology, economic forecasts, and exciting developments in manufacturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

December 23rd at 1PM EST – The ILWU contract expired on July 1, 2014, and once again the West Coast port container offloads and onloads have been crippled during contentious union negotiations in the face of near-record imports and exports during the accelerating economic recovery. Hundreds of millions of dollars in losses have already occurred in agricultural exports, retail imports that will have to be dumped at fire sales after Christmas, manufacturing productivity losses from just-in-time raw material delays, and future losses from overseas buyers who will source products elsewhere in 2015 and beyond. Listen to our December 23rd show LIVE at 1PM EST as we talk about this prickly situation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Chris Kuehl, economist, analyst and humorist who gives his unfiltered view of the outlook for 2015.  Dr. Kuehl is a noted economist working with the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association International who will present information from the FMA 2015 Annual forecast, the potential impact of the West Coast port situation, onshoring of employees from countries around the world to fill the labor gap, and other commentary on economic and government issues for the coming year.  His upbeat humor and down-to-earth style makes this show a must listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad Holcomb, Chair of the ISM Manufacturing Report on Business and Tony Nieves, Chair of the Non-Manufacturing Report on Business present the ISM’s annual forecast for 2015. This in-depth analyst, culled from the respondents to the monthly reports of 2014, promises to be a sound and insightful projection of the most likely economic picture for manufacturing and non-manufacturing for 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

North America’s manufacturing sector is on an upward trajectory. However, a shortage of young talent, compounded by Baby Boomers’ negative perceptions about Millennials, could impact its continued expansion, according to ThomasNet’s latest Industry Market Barometer® (IMB) research.Guests Karen Norheim of American Crane and Kevin Wolfe of Powill Manufacturing join Linda Rigano of ThomasNet to discus the critical role Millennials play in the future of manufacturing in America and the challenges associated with making manufacturing “cool” again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The November PMI® registered 58.7%. The report was issued  by Bradley J. Holcomb, CPSM, CPSD, chair of the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee.  Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in November for the 18th consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 66th consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest Mike Galiazzo, President of the Regional Manufacturing Institute of Maryland, will present his thoughts on changing the formula on how America competes, not whether or not we can compete. America needs to rethink education, human resources, and how we utilize resources to better benefit manufacturing in the 21st Century without creating more unemployment and poverty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sandi Montalbano from Reshoring initiative. The mission of the Reshoring Initiative is to bring good, well-paying manufacturing jobs back to the United States by assisting companies to more accurately assess their total cost of offshoring, and shift collective thinking from offshoring is cheaper to local reduces the total cost of ownership. Reshoring Initiative: Bringing manufacturing back to America. Listen live right here on Tuesday, November 18th at 1PM EST for our live free show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LIVE from FabTech 2014 in Atlanta, Hosts Lew and Tim welcome Ed Youdell from the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association and Peter Hoecklin, President of Trumpf, the largest manufacturer of fabricating equipment and industrial lasers in North America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live from FabTech 2014 in Atlanta! Wednesday's broadcast included: Dr. Chris Kuehl & Mark Hoper - Capital Spending Survey    Bob Southwell and Troy Roberts from AIDA America Rocky Bleier - Motivational Speaker Former NFL Super Bowl Champion Anne Goyer - CCAI Ron Jewell - Industrial Magnetics Inc. David McPhail from Memex Automation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live from Fabtech 2014 Atlanta.Special Guests include Cindi Marsiglio, the U.S. Vice President of Manufacturing at Wal-Mart.Greg Dawson, the sales manager for Nordson Corporations Eastern United States Industrial Coating Systems Powder Division. William E. Gaskin is president of the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA), a 501 (c)(6) trade association representing the $113-billion metalforming industry in North America, the industry that produces precision sheet metal components and assemblies used in autos, appliances, computers and thousands of other consumer, commercial and industrial applications.Monica Pfarr - AWS. Ms. Pfarr has been Corporate Director for Workforce Development with the AWS Foundation and Principal Investigator for Weld-ED, the National Center for Welding Education and Training located at Lorain County Community College since 2008. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The October PMI® registered 59 percent, an increase of 2.4 percentage points from September’s reading of 56.6 percent, indicating continued expansion in continued expansion in manufacturing. The report was issued by Bradley J. Holcomb, CPSM, CPSD, chair of the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. He is here today to discuss the report in detail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Bennett, President of the Texas Association of Manufacturing  will join us to talk about the state of the State of Texas manufacturing; what’s happening, what’s hot, and what’s getting in the way for small and mid-sized manufacturers in Texas.The Texas Association of Manufacturers (TAM) represents over 450 large and small companies from every manufacturing sector, employing more than 894,000 Texans with an average compensation of $79,350 a year (the highest in the private sector). Texas manufacturers contributed $211 billion to the Texas economy in 2012 and one-third of all corporate taxes collected by state and local governments. Manufactured goods account for 94.6 percent of all Texas exports and Texas has held the distinction as the #1 exporting state in the U.S. for several consecutive years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices