306: AI in Manufacturing: How Systems of Action Are Transforming ERP and Manufacturing Operations

 Manufacturing has a lot to gain from AI, and a lot to lose by waiting. Recorded at mHUB in Chicago’s West Loop during IMTS (International Manufacturing Technology Show), Chris sits down with Sanjay...

304: How Supersede Is Using AI, Material Science, and First Principles to Scale American Manufacturing

 RVs are homes that go 60 miles an hour. That changes everything about what goes inside them.  Chris sits down with Sean Petterson, CEO of Supersede, a company combining recycling and manufacturing in...

Why Condition Monitoring Is All About Replacing Unplanned Downtime with Personal Downtime Featuring AssetWatch

 Some of the best manufacturing advice comes down to one simple idea – buy back your weekends. In this bonus episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, Chris is joined by Patrick Carmitchel, VP of Product...

Servitization Explained: How Equipment Builders are Creating Recurring Revenue Beyond Machine Sales with PTC’s Sam Neva

 Selling the equipment is the easy part. The real revenue shows up after the sale.  Sam Neva,  Vice President of Sales for Service Lifecycle Management at PTC, joined the show to talk servitization – what...

The Future of Intralogistics featuring Siemens’ Joel Thomas and Markus Thiel

 Digital, real, real, digital. It sounds simple, but it’s rewriting how a warehouse gets designed. Joel Thomas has spent over a decade in the Intralogistics space and now leads OEM Sales Data Center and Life...

297: Defense Spending, Contract Manufacturing, and Navigating Regulated Industries with Fathom CEO Rush LaSelle

 Fine tuning manufacturing like a guitar – that’s the kind of parallel you can expect from this episode.  This week Chris sits down with Rush LaSelle, CEO at Fathom, recorded on site at their Hartland,...