Manufacturing Talk Radio

Stephen Gray, President and CEO of Gray Construction, a pioneering design-build company specializing in engineering, architecture and construction services for both domestic and international customers, will be with us to share insights into manufacturing trends from the design-build perspective.  Hear what’s on the mind of their manufacturing customers, and stay tuned to for a discussion on how and why US manufacturing competitiveness is on track to surpass China.  Manufacturing has changed, and as foreign investments return to the US, hear how the 56 year-old, family-based, Gray Construction headquartered in Lexington KY will continue to meet the expanding design-build and construction management needs of their core markets including manufacturing, automotive, food &beverage and distribution industries well into the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as Drura Parrish, CEO and Founder of MakeTime®, explains how this first on-demand machining platform provides turnkey CNC machining from qualified U.S. suppliers. With unprecedented visibility into available U.S. supply, MakeTime® will intelligently match projects of any size to local production capacity, as well as source material and schedule logistics at the point of production to keep costs down. Outmoded business processes, like time-consuming RFQs and multi-step certification requirements, become obsolete with intelligent automation that measurably cuts the soft costs of doing business while supply chain risks are mitigated through a unique distributed manufacturing model that guarantees quality and on-time delivery at competitive market rates. Manufacturing’s lumbering giant has become nimble and lean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celeste Catano, Sr. Global Strategist at Kewill and Amy Magnus, Director of Customs Affairs & Compliance at Deringer are back with Manufacturing Talk Radio to update us on the ongoing compliance and implementation issues of the eCustoms platform, the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). Listen in to hear how this program is impacting exporting and importing and stay informed about how, and if, your business will be affect effected.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cliff Waldman, Director of Economic Studies at the Manufacturer’s Alliance for Productivity and Innovation Foundation is with us again to present MAPI’s latest economic forecast, plus important research on productivity in manufacturing. It promises to be an interesting discussion of GDP, global economic trends and indicators, and an in-depth look at why, and how, slowing productivity growth remains an escalating concern. A must listen for manufacturing executives across America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can U.S. manufacturers compete globally when counterfeiting, cyber-attacks and piracy steal our intellectual property without penalty? Join us as Drew Greenblatt, Chairman of The National Alliance for Jobs and Innovation (NAJI) and Rob McKenna, partner at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, LLP, co-chair of its Public Policy Group, former Washington State Attorney General 2005-2013 and president of the National Association of Attorneys General 2011-2012 discuss how through NAJI, manufacturers and other businesses, associations and academics are working together to protect U.S innovation and prosecute those who poach our secrets. For more on NAJI, visit http://naji.org/report-ip-theft/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We open with Norbert Ore, Director and Head of Industry Surveys for Strategas Research Partners who returns to provide comparative commentary on 18 Purchasing Managers Index reports that are compiled worldwide. Find out how, and why, they’re performing as they are. Then at 1:30, we will be discussing the The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) with Celeste Catano, Sr. Global Strategist at Kewill and Amy Magnus, Director of Customs Affairs & Compliance at Deringer. The new program will have a dramatic impact on the way manufacturers export and import their goods. Find out everything you’ll need to know about this new platform and how/if it will affect your business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Despite misconceptions to the contrary, robotics are actually creating jobs and spurring manufacturing growth. Join us as Drew Greenblatt, CEO of steel fabricator Marlin Steel and Harry Moser, Founder and President of The Reshoring Initiative discuss how automation is helping manufacturers expand their production, save companies and return jobs to the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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