Manufacturing Happy Hour
42:46Scaling Handmade Furniture With Factory-Floor Discipline: Kwadwo Som-Pimpong on Building Crafted Glory
Kwadwo Som-Pimpong runs Crafted Glory, a small-batch handmade furniture practice in Asheville, North Carolina, while also working 10-hour shifts as a fabrication supervisor at Eaton. On Manufacturing
53:55Inside the Industrial Autonomy Stack: Mining, Warehouses, and Perception Hardware from Pittsburgh
Recorded live in Pittsburgh with the Pittsburgh Robotics Network, this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour asks what industrial autonomy looks like when it leaves the lab and goes into mines, factorie
20:35How the Sisterhood of Trades Built a Community for Tradeswomen, from a Snapchat Group to a Discord Server
Recorded live at Fathom's Manufacturing Exchange at ARTISANworks in Rochester, New York, this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour has host Chris Luecke talking with Nush Ahmed, CEO of the Sisterhood o
46:57The Art of Precision Manufacturing: Where Human Skill Still Beats Automation
Recorded live at Artisan Works, an art-focused event space in Rochester, New York, this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour was part of the show's Rust Belt Renaissance Tour and was held with Fathom D
48:41How Cleveland Turns National Manufacturing Programs Into Local Results
Manufacturing Happy Hour, hosted by Chris Luecke, usually records one-on-one interviews over drinks. This episode was a live show at Collision Bend Brewing in Cleveland, the first stop on the show's "
45:25How Central Wisconsin Manufacturers Stopped Competing for Workers and Started Solving the Problem Together
At a live recording of Manufacturing Happy Hour at Bull Falls Brewing in Wausau, Wisconsin, host Chris Luecke sat down with five board members of the Central Wisconsin Manufacturing Alliance (CWIMA).
43:43Apprentice.io's Angelo Stracquatanio on Building Manufacturing AI That Operators Can Trust
In this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, host Chris Luecke talks with Angelo Stracquatanio, co-founder and CEO of Apprentice.io, about the company's twelve years building software for manufacturin
31:15MRP vs. ERP: Why Growing Manufacturers Outgrow Spreadsheets
This episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, sponsored by MRPeasy, is aimed at manufacturers with roughly 10 to 200 employees who still run their businesses on spreadsheets. Host Chris Luecke talks with
28:53Why "No Alerts" Can Mean Success: Colin Morris of MaintainX on AI, Digital Logs, and Predictive Maintenance
Predictive maintenance powered by AI has been promised to manufacturers for years, and in many plants it still hasn't delivered. In this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, host Chris Luecke asks Col
38:00How Sumitomo Drive Technologies Is Fitting 30,000 Square Feet of Inventory Into 7,500
Sumitomo Drive Technologies is rebuilding its distribution center around automation. The goal is to fit a growing business into the building it already has. On an episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour,
43:13Siemens' Chris Stevens on Adaptive Production, AI "Light Bulb Moments," and Why Digital Transformation Hinges on People
In this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, host Chris Luecke talks with Chris Stevens, SVP and GM of the US Automation Business for Siemens Digital Industries. The conversation asks how manufacturer
1:00:31Starting a Business at 50: Patti Nowak on Mid-Career Entrepreneurship, Mentorship, and Making Yourself "Bigger"
Patti Nowak owns Control+M Solutions, a consulting firm built entirely around Plex, the cloud ERP system owned by Rockwell Automation. Nowak started it at almost 50, after losing a job. In this episod
27:35Inside the Semiconductor Boom: What Manufacturers Need to Know Before They Try to Serve It
At a live recording of Manufacturing Happy Hour at SEMICON West in Phoenix, Arizona, host Chris asked two industry veterans how manufacturers, especially in the U.S., can take part in the current surg
35:52Recommissioning a Mothballed Solar Cell Plant in Five Months: Lessons from an Automation Project
On an episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, the host sat down with Chris and Cassie of ET Tech Group to walk through one project: bringing a clean energy manufacturing facility, a solar cell plant that
39:48AI Raises OT Data Demands and Threats Faster Than Factory Networks Can Keep Up: Felipe Sabino Costa of Moxa on Security
In this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, host Chris talks with Felipe Sabino Costa of Moxa about how artificial intelligence is changing operational technology (OT), the networks and systems that
17:27Security Cameras as AI Teammates: Spot AI on Agents for Factory Safety and Operations
In this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, recorded just before a large Automate afterparty in Detroit, the host and co-host Jake Hall (The Manufacturing Millennial) talk with Dunchadhn Lyons of Spo
48:29Unlocking the Hidden Factory: Tri Tech Automation on Finding Untapped Capacity in Plants and Their Own Panel Shop
This episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour was recorded at Urban Chestnut Brewing Company in St. Louis. Host Chris sat down with three leaders from Tri Tech Automation, a control systems integrator: Pre
56:28Jason T. Ray on Decisive Leadership: Why Indecision Costs Job Shops More Than a Wrong Call
Jason T. Ray, co-founder and CEO of Paperless Parts, is a recurring guest on Manufacturing Happy Hour. He has appeared roughly every hundred episodes, including around episode 20 and again at episode
37:29How OSARO Scaled Robotic Piece-Picking by Growing Slowly on Purpose
In this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, recorded in the vinyl listening lounge at Trillium Brewing in Boston's Seaport District, the host talks with Adi Dalvi, VP of Sales at OSARO, about warehou
47:04Measuring What Matters: Metrology, On-the-Job Training, and Staying Fulfilled in Manufacturing
This episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour brought together three people who approach measurement from very different places. Steve Ilmrud runs North American operations for Hexagon Manufacturing Intell