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...

283: From Craft to Manufacturing: How an Engineer Is Scaling a Furniture Business with Lessons from Industry featuring Kwadwo Som-Pimpong, Founder of Crafted Glory

 Kwadwo Som-Pimpong started making furniture in 2015 because he bought a house with no furniture and decided to build his own.   A decade later, he runs Crafted Glory, a small-batch luxury furniture brand blending West African...

266: A Century of Cookware Manufacturing and the Impact of Automation and Reshoring with David Duecker, President of SynergyOps

 A century ago, two cookware companies were born 12 miles apart in Wisconsin. One was bought right after World War II by a door-to-door salesman who converted it back to cookware after it had been repurposed for munitions. Today, those two...

261: Energy Transition Explained: How Manufacturers Can Save Energy and Build a Sustainable Future featuring Veregy’s Eric Spink & Shiva Subramanya

 Sustainability goals are everywhere in manufacturing; net-zero by 2030, carbon neutral by 2035. While many manufacturers have set ambitious targets, the gap between goals and execution remains a challenge, especially when sustainability projects...