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...

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,...

296: The Art of Building in the Age of AI with Baukunst Co-Founder Tyler Mincey

 What does it take to build something well, on purpose, in a world that keeps pushing you to move faster?  This week Chris sits down with Tyler Mincey, Co-Founder and General Partner at Baukunst, a San Francisco and...