Manufacturing Talk Radio

As part of a nationwide effort to help close the swelling skills gap, the SME Education Foundation established PRIME® (Partnership Response In Manufacturing Education), its program to attract youth to manufacturing and prepare high school students for careers in the industry. The Foundation works closely with manufacturing businesses and associations to develop partnerships with local high schools that provide students with the knowledge and hands-on technical skills using state of the art technology and industry relevant equipment. Shape Corporation, a concept, design, engineering, and manufacturer of auto body structures has joined forces with the SME Foundation to form a new partnership to bring advanced manufacturing education to Grand Haven High School in Grand Haven, Mich.  Shape will invest $300,000 in the Foundation's PRIME program which will kick off at the Grand Haven High School in the 2018-2019 academic year. Hear about this creative partnership as it begins to expand across the U.S. through the SME Education Foundation, and locally for a global corporation in Grand Haven, Michigan during a Manufacturing Talk Radio conversation with Brian Glowiak, Vice President of the SME Education Foundation and Doug Peterson, Global Vice President of Human Resources for Shape Corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Each month, Manufacturing Talk Radio reaches out to its Senior International Correspondents to get their read on manufacturing around the world in this global economy. Royce Lowe reports from France and Europe and the United Kingdom, Chong Wang reports from Shanghai on China, Japan, and other Asian countries, Norbert Ore reports from Atlanta on 18 global PMI surveys and several regional U.S. purchasing managers indicies, and Chad Moutray, Chief Economist from the National Association of Manufacturers, discusses his Monday morning report and global monthly update. The purpose is to give business listeners a sense of how manufacturing and economic activity looks on a macro level and where it might be headed in the near term to gain an understanding of how economies interact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Nieves joins Manufacturing Talk Radio to discuss the ISM's Committee report on Non-Manufacturing, which includes all of the service sector companies, retail trade, mining and construction. This sector uses or sells many of the parts and materials crafted by the manufacturing sector, so both sectors are closely interwoven. This month, the Non-Manufacturing Report on Business(R) is very favorable as the economy continues to move forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is not the process that causes projects to fail. Change tends to fail because people fail to buy in to the change itself. Given that change is inevitable, and coming along more rapidly every year, tune in to hear Barbara Trautlein of Change Catalysts explain how to approach change projects for successful outcomes, including the all important buy-in of the people. Learn how “change equals pain in the brain,” then hear about Change Intelligence (CQ) and how it is different from but interacts with IQ and EQ. This is an insightful show for everyone in manufacturing, an industry where change is readily apparent from the C-Suite doors to the production floor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Lew & Tim talk to guests from two very different businesses. Aaron Schieving is the Director of Sales & Marketing for Lifecycle Biotechnologies which includes Chata Biosystems, VI (6) Plastics and Boval BioSolutions – all manufacturing operations that serve the medical field. Also joining Lew and Tim is Travis Walker, Senior Search Consultant for the Carlisle Group who helps manufacturers find key C-Suite executives who also discusses what is happening in the ‘gap’ of the skills gap. Listen in on the conversation at mfgtalkradio.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manufacturing is strong in all the major economies, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Asia (both China and Japan), the UK and the EU. Here from the National Association of Manufacturers Chief Economist Chad Moutray, Senior International Correspondent for Manufacturing Talk Radio Royce Lowe covering the UK and EU, and Chong Wang, Senior International Correspondent covering Asia as they report on strong results from June and strength leading into the balance of the summer. Then, on Wednesday, hear Senior Correspondent Norbert Ore update listeners on the 18 Purchasing Manager’s Indices he follows in addition to the ISM for the USA, and related economic reports – at the moment, very good news in manufacturing to hear on Manufacturing Talk Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Sanford’s guest is Mr. Peter Lambert,  Senior Vice President at Willis Towers Watson for Mergers & Acquisitions Group.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Co-hosts Lew Weiss and Tim Grady interview Anthony Nieves, Committee Chair for the ISM’s Non-Manufacturing Report on Business(R) that has surged upward to 57.4 on strong new orders, production and business activity. Coupled with the strength in the 57.8 Manufacturing Report on Business(R) discussed last week, the summer could be on of the strongest in the last decade for U.S. business growth. Then hear Stone Payton and Lee Cantor interview Tim Grady on Business Radio X in Atlanta about the origins of Manufacturing Talk Radio and what it brings to the manufacturing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices