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Making Chips Podcast for Manufacturing Leaders

Making Chips Podcast for Manufacturing Leaders

419 Episodes • By MakingChips LLC • makingchips.com
Manufacturing is challenging, but if you are connected to a community of leaders, you can elevate your skills, solve your problems and grow your business! MakingChips was launched in 2014 to equip and inspire the metalworking nation. Hundreds of episodes and a million downloads later, it’s an indu ...more
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Making Chips Podcast for Manufacturing Leaders
Making Chips Podcast for Manufacturing Leaders
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Lights Out: Connecting Advanced Machining Strategies to Business Results Part 1, 418
Machine monitoring can give us insights into our mac... more
Jul 24 2024 28m
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Is Work-Life Balance a Fallacy? Part 2, 417
What if your life has little distinction between wor... more
Jul 17 2024 25m
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Is Work-Life Balance a Fallacy? Part 1, 416
Work-life balance. It’s a phrase that’s often thrown... more
Jul 12 2024 27m
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MakingSparks: Using LinkedIn to Drive Leads for Your Manufacturing Business with Preston Hadley, 415
There are over 1 billion users on LinkedIn worldwide... more
Jul 5 2024 37m
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MakingSparks: What’s Keeping You Up at Night? An Update from Matthew and Casey, 414
What’s keeping you up at night? What are you excited... more
Jun 28 2024 23m
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How to Adapt CNC Training for the Next Generation of Manufacturing Leaders - Part 2, 413
Gamification. Gamification is a highly successful st... more
Jun 21 2024 41m
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How to Adapt CNC Training for the Next Generation of Manufacturing Leaders - Part 1, 412
How do we train the next generation of manufacturing... more
Jun 14 2024 34m
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MakingSparks: Women in Welding, 411
Did you know that only about 6% of welders are women... more
Jun 7 2024 38m
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MFG News Special: Where are We at with the Reshoring Initiative? 410
Where is the United States with reshoring initiative... more
May 31 2024 44m
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Lights Out: A Samurai's Journey to Automation, 409
Can small shops begin to automate their processes? W... more
May 24 2024 46m
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How Can Manufacturing Leaders Measure Their Customer Relationships? 408
Whether you’re a small business or a growing enterpr... more
May 18 2024 33m
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MakingSparks: Why Numbers are Important for Your Manufacturing Business | Mike Payne Part 2, 407
You need to know the “numbers” in your business. Eve... more
May 10 2024 41m
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MakingSparks: Oklahoma Meets Indiana - A Manufacturing Chat with Mike Payne Part 1, 406
Mike Payne has spent the last 20+ years deeply entre... more
May 3 2024 37m
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Should You Use a Recruiter to Find Your Next Manufacturing Leader? 405
Are you the type of manufacturing leader who prefers... more
Apr 26 2024 46m
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The Journey from Scan to CAD to Part at Hill Manufacturing, 404
My shop has been restoring a 1959 Ford F10. When we ... more
Apr 19 2024 33m
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Are You Putting Too Much Trust in Your Supply Chain? 403
How important is building relationships and trust wi... more
Apr 12 2024 38m
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How Businesses Can Collaborate with Technical Education, 402
What are the benefits of working closely with a loca... more
Apr 2 2024 37m
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SZN1: Should Women Entrepreneurs Choose the Manufacturing Industry? 401
POV: You’re a woman with an entrepreneurial edge. Yo... more
Mar 29 2024 40m
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Lights Out: How to Prioritize Flexibility when You Invest in Automation, 400
POV: You’ve decided to start the process of implemen... more
Mar 22 2024 36m
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Do We Need More Manufacturing Entrepreneurs? 399
There are around 17,000 contract manufacturing job s... more
Mar 12 2024 43m
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MakingSparks: Staying Connected through Your Front Line Leaders Part 2, 398
How can leadership remain connected to what’s happen... more
Mar 5 2024 29m
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MakingSparks: Growing Shop Floor Front Line Leaders Part 1, 397
How do we recruit more young talent to fabrication? ... more
Feb 27 2024 27m
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MakingSparks: Manufacturing Precision and Processes with BWXT GM Nate Foote, 396
BWXT Mount Vernon produces components for naval nucl... more
Feb 20 2024 38m
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MakingSparks: How Technology Drives Innovation on the Other Side of Metalworking Nation, 395
What are the pros and cons of plasma cutters vs. wat... more
Feb 13 2024 44m
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An Important Update on Jason Zenger and the Leadership Lessons We Learned from It, 394
On December 7th, 2023, Jason had a heart attack, the... more
Feb 6 2024 36m
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