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