Manufacturing Talk Radio

Hosts Lewis Weiss and Tim Grady welcome Sarah Boisvert, founder of Fab Lab Hub, an organization that helps start new maker spaces, conducts workforce and entrepreneurship training in digital fabrication, and organizes the annual DigiFabCon.  Find out how they help people “Dream it…Design it…Fabricate It…Change Your World!” only on Manufacturing Talk Radio. For more episodes visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Lew Weiss welcomes Craig Cegielski and John Silveria from The American Center for Student-Run Manufacturing Businesses to talk about their amazing solution to the manufacturing skills gap in America. Their program creates a self-funding, self-sustaining student-run business with local industry partners. Students run every part of the business from using CAD/CAM software, welding, machine tool operation as well as marketing and shipping. Learn more in this episode of Manufacturing Talk Radio. For more episodes visit MFGTALKRADIO.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, Director and Head of Industry Surveys for Strategas Research Partners who returns to provide comparative commentary on 18 Purchasing Managers Index reports that are compiled worldwide. For more episodes visit MFGTALKRADIO.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conrad Mercurius, Coordinator of Advanced Manufacturing Tech, joins hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss the programs available at Raritan Valley Community College for students to improve their knowledge of advanced manufacturing, and the participation of employers. For more visit https://mfgtalkradio.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to the other half of the supply chain equation that accounts for 70 to 88% of the U.S. economy when host Tim Grady speaks with Anthony Nieves, ISM committee chair on the Non-Manufacturing Report On Business. Gain key insights into what is happening and the outlook for purchasing managers as the second half of 2018 begins. For more episodes visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Kuehl joins host Tim Grady to discuss the most recent Credit Manager's Index report and provide economic updates on the U.S. economy and tariffs.  The road is becoming a bit bumpy ahead. Listen to find out when the bumps turn into potholes or fissures - because the "R" word appears to be coming to America brought to you by tariffs and trade wars sponsored by the Trump administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The mainstream media has viewers focusing on the form, but not the substance and solutions on the immigration issue.  Listen to Immigration lawyer, Michael Wildes from Wildes Weinberg, discuss with co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady the immigration problem that the 115th Congress - this Congress - needs to solve, whether the immigration issue is foreign students in this country without a pathway to employment, immigrants at our borders without a pathway to living and working in the U.S., or individuals already in this country without a pathway to citizenship.  For more visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2,905,500  recordable cases of workplace injuuries and 4,836 deaths were reported in 2015. Some number of these were preventable, and many were heat-related. Terry DeRise is the Manufacturing Director at Portacool, LLC for portable evaporative cooler manufacturing. Hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady discuss hazard assessment and solution with Terry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norbert Ore, Director and Head of Industry Surveys for Strategas Research Partners who returns to provide comparative commentary on 18 Purchasing Managers Index reports that are compiled worldwide. Find out how, and why, they’re performing as they are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason McNew, CEO of Stronghold Cybersecurity joins co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady to discuss cybersecurity threats to U.S. manufacturing, data for sale on the dark web, and other security concerns for business and industry online. For more on Manufacturing Talk Radio visit mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices