A common theme on Manufacturing Revival Radio has always been Lean concepts and their implementation. Today they bring you a guest who has unique perspective on how to better utilize the concepts that continue to drive the Lean movement. MRR welcomes to the show Kevin Duggan, Founder of the Institute for Operational Excellence and President of Duggan Associates. The [...]

  Today Manufacturing Revival Radio had the pleasure of speaking with two individuals that are helping keep America’s work force comfortable. We welcomed to the show James DeSmet and Christian Taber, Director of Engineering and Operations Senior Applications Engineer (respectively) of Big Ass Fans. Big Ass Fans manufactures large fans for both commercial and residential situations providing the latest offerings [...]

  A pleasure to welcome Doug Tingle to Manufacturing Revival Radio! Doug is the co-founder and Vice Chairman of the Board of Managers of 1888 Mills.

  Take a quick moment and where ever you are, look around you.  I would be willing to bet that you see some sort of plastic near by.  Well, today MRR had the pleasure of speaking with Tony Deligio, Content Director with Plastics Today.  Plastics Today is a Online Publication focused on everything plastic.  With an online reach of over 50,000 unique [...]

  “Everybody in the building gives a darn.”   That’s just one of the many comments made by Jim Hennen, Vice President of Sales for the Braas Company that stuck in our heads. He was referring to the fact that Braas is an ESOP, in other words, a company owned by its employees. Of course it makes an attitudinal difference [...]

  National Manufacturing Day as a new U.S. holiday? I say yes! And so does Pat Lee, Director of Marketing for the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association (FMA). In fact, she and FMA are right in the middle of a major effort, along with folks from NIST, part of the Department of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Manufacturing [...]

  This interview was originally published on Automation & Safety Radio.   Tony Overy, Vice President, and Alan Sharrow, Engineering Group Leader for Advanced Motion Systems contend with new safety issues every day. It could be machines without safety designed into them that have been re-shored or figuring out the hard and soft guarding needed for a collaborative robotic application.

The Numbers Never Lie Manufacturing Revival Radio has been looking forward to speaking with Tom Gale, President & Publisher, Gale Media/Modern Distribution Management, for quite a while now. Modern Distribution Management (MDM) provides in-depth resources for executives in the wholesale distribution industry. Armed with a team of award winning editors MDM offers valuable in-depth insight into the wholesale distribution industry [...]

  Institutes of Innovation   As we all know, last week President Obama presented the State of The Union to the Country. During his speech he spoke on a variety of topics including one of our favorites, American Manufacturing. Today MRR welcomed Robert Atkinson, President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), to discuss the President’s manufacturing initiatives stated [...]

If you have ever had a flu shot, then there is a good chance that in a small way you are connected to this next guest. MRR welcomed to the show Butch Rich, Director of Operations with Rame-Hart. Rame-Hart began as a design and build machine shop and today has evolved into a leading manufacturer of Egg Harvesters and Inoculators. [...]