Manufacturing Talks
There are millions of cool stories in manufacturing. Your host, Jim Vinoski, helps share them by talking to the people who are making them happen. Manufacturing is where the rubber meets the road. There's no hiding. You're either making good products people will buy for enough to keep you in business, or you're not. Meet the amazing folks who thrive in that survival-of-the-fittest world.
Podcasting since 2021 • 159 episodes
Manufacturing Talks
Latest Episodes
Our host Jim Vinoski on the nonexistent rule about rich countries always being service economies
"Manufacturing jobs aren't coming back to America, because rich nations are always service economies."Wrong on all counts!Our esteemed host explains why this oft-repeated statement is flat-out false, and what has really led to t...
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Noel Joyce on his open-source adaptive mountain bike design
Noel Joyce, an assistant professor at NYU Shanghai, discussed his open-source adaptive quad mountain bike design. After a mountain biking accident left him a wheelchair user for 20 years, Joyce pursued industrial design. He designed a bike to a...
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Matt Horine on Veryable's on-demand labor app for manufacturing and warehousing
Matt is Head of Reindustrialization at Veryable. We featured them in our early days, when the company's CEO, Mike Kinder, joined us for our Episode 11.Now, with reindustrialization happening in real time, Matt is here to tell how Veryab...
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Clay Martin gives us all the lowdown on hiring skilled workers from Puerto Rico
Peace Corps veteran Clay Martin found his calling, and he's now founded company #2 that's focused on helping industry employers find skilled workers who want to come here from Puerto Rico.In case you weren't previously aware, that is a ...
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Isaac Orr joins us once again to talk about how renewable energy makes electricity more expensive
One half of the Energy Bad Boys came back on the show to discuss our electric grids and the good, the bad, and the ugly about them.Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling published a Substack last month telling how my home state of Michigan's insan...
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