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Thomas Industry Podcast
by Thomas
Actionable information for industry leaders.
Episodes
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Is No-Code Programming Key to Making Robots Accessible?
The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute's goal is to foster collaboration between those who create and maintain robotics and those who leverage it. This episode dives into how Chris Adams, a Senior Projects Manager with ARM, got into robotics manufacturing and how emerging...
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Hydro Flask Founder Says Bringing Manufacturing Back Home Must Be a Priority
Over a decade ago, Travis Rosbach decided he was tired of using single-use plastic water bottles and visited a local sporting goods store in Hawaii to buy a reusable plastic bottle. When he found the shelf empty due to recalls of Nalgene’s hard plastic bottles due to potential chemical health...
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Creating a Truly Circular Economy with RAIN RFID Wireless Technology
RAIN RFID — a wireless technology that connects billions of everyday items to the internet — is already connecting nearly 30 billion items every single year, according to Megan Brewster, the Vice President of Advanced Technology at Impinj. In this episode of the Thomas Industry Podcast, host…
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Forecasting 2023's Industrial Production in Manufacturing Outlook
"The problem is that we didn't see anyone in the marketplace accurately predicting industrial production and manufacturing," said Keith Prather. “So we set out on a study. We discovered 18-20 different economic metrics that allow us to predict industrial production manufacturing.” For the last…
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The Sky Is the Limit: How Tele-manufacturing Could Be Used on the Space Station
Tele-manufacturing enables workers to operate functional equipment from a distant console to complete critical manufacturing processes like welding, machining, and inspecting remotely. “What we wanted to figure out was, can we use automation to allow somebody to control a robot remotely?” said...
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Scale Production, Consolidate Supply Chains with This AI-powered Solution
"As soon as we can quote, we can make," said Greg Paulsen, director of application engineering at Xometry. In this episode, Xometry's Vice President of Platform Growth and Engagement Cathy Ma chats with Paulsen about Xometry's AI-powered marketplace, the company's work with BMW, and why Paulsen…
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Is This the Secret to Managing Vendor Relationships?
“We started validating [our] tool with CEOs, CFOs, heads of product, and they all said, ‘This is something we can use, and we need it sooner rather than later,’” said Tasneem Manjra, CEO and co-founder of Caravan, a vendor relationship management platform. Host Cathy Ma chats with Manjra about…
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Using Technology to Predict Future Supply Chain Strains
"The question really is do we move back, or do we build new factories? I don’t really see the move back. I think what happens is there is additional production, and that additional production will be onshored," says Jens Gamperl, CEO and Founder of Sourceability and Sourcengine. Host Cathy Ma…
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Putting Off Automating? You Can Now Hire Robots by the Hour
"The thing that we've heard over and over and over again from our customers is 'Yeah, we've been planning to automate. We're right about to do it. We've been planning this project for the last five or ten years.' Well, why don't I see a robot over here?" asks Saman Farid, CEO of Formic. Host…
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Programming Note: Looking Forward to 2022
This will be our last episode for the year as our production team takes a short break to gear up for next year’s lineup of new podcast episodes. Until then, have a wonderful holiday season, a happy new year, and we’ll be back with new episodes in 2022!
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Expert Shares 3 Major Supply Chain Risks to Avoid
“I spent 35 years trying to explain what supply chain management was to my friends and relatives, and they're like, what?” laughs Rosemary Coates, executive director of the Reshoring Institute and president of Blue Silk Consulting. “But today, of course, it’s headline news... Everybody talks…
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How Should Businesses Prepare Their Supply Chains for 2022?
“We were set up to manage one or two disruptions at a time,” says Jen Upthegrove, director of global supply chain process & systems at Rockwell Automation. “We were never set up to manage this many disruptions concurrently at the same time.” Over the past year, the supply chain has rocketed from...
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“Don’t Let Safety Go Lax” Amid Great Resignation
4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in August. Among these now-open roles are industry professionals who were tasked with managing safety at manufacturing businesses nationwide. “Don't let safety go lax” amid staffing gaps resulting from the Great Resignation, warns Michelle Tinsley, co-founder...
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Industry 4.0 Shouldn't Be Overly Complex
“Oftentimes we try to solve problems that are really urgent by adding layers of complexity — more process, more steps,” says Sunny Han, CEO and founder of Fulcrum. “But really, the answer is the opposite — to go simpler.” Thrown into flux by recent COVID-19 related supply chain disruptions, the...
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How Does Gen Z View the Manufacturing Sector?
77% of Gen Z views the manufacturing sector more positively now than pre-COVID-19, according to a recent survey conducted by Parsable, an enterprise, cloud-based software company offering digital tools designed to enhance industrial productivity, safety, and quality. “You've read a lot of…
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Behind the Scenes of the NFL's On-field Player Tracking Technology [Revisiting Episode 39]
“As football fans, we’ve all heard that a quarterback can really spin it,” says John "JP" Pollard, vice president of business development at Zebra MotionWorks™ Sport. But now, equipped with Zebra’s innovative tracking technology, “the tag in the football actually allows us to calculate in a...
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How Will Reshoring Affect U.S. Manufacturers?
“We're getting to an Amazon-driven, consumer-driven world,” says Mahesh Rajasekharan, president and CEO of global ecosystem integration software solutions company Cleo. “Even though they're B2B manufacturing buyers, they have a B2C mindset right now.” Learn the 3 questions industrial business...
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What’s the First Step to Digital Transformation?
Not sure how to start your digital transformation journey? Start small while thinking big, says Olivier Pauzet, vice president of product and IoT solutions at Sierra Wireless. And be sure to listen throughout the entire process -- not just to your leadership team but to all employees, says…
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Chief Analyst Share Predictions for Future of Electronics Sector
“I believe that we are on the cusp of some exciting technology advances that are going to drive some really exciting growth in our industry,” says Dale Ford, chief analyst of the Electronic Components Industry Association (ECIA). In conversation with Thomas President and CEO Tony Uphoff, Ford...
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Closing the Gender Gap in Construction
While women comprise 47% of the American workforce, they represent only 9% of the construction workforce. Yet among the more than 7,000 employees at Rosendin Electric, one of the largest electrical contractors in the United States, women represent 30% of the company’s staff on some projects, like...
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Inside the Nation's Largest 3D Printing Network
While the COVID-19 pandemic caused innumerable, life-threatening challenges, it also gave the manufacturing industry a unique opportunity to showcase its collaborative potential. Host Tony Uphoff speaks to 4 key stakeholders from 3 companies involved in Project DIAMOnD, which stands for...
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Accenture CTO Reimagines the Future of Work
“We're at a moment of truth now where it's the time that you really have to get digital transformation right to secure the right future,” says Accenture CTO and Group Chief Executive of Technology Paul Daugherty, who is the co-author of Human Plus Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI, on…
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Behind the Scenes: NFL's On-field Player Tracking Technology
“As football fans, we’ve all heard that a quarterback can really spin it,” says John "JP" Pollard, vice president of business development at Zebra MotionWorks™ Sport. But now, equipped with Zebra’s innovative tracking technology, “the tag in the football actually allows us to calculate in a...
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Is This the End of Global Free Trade?
As a new administration begins to shift trade policy, U.S.-China trade uncertainties continue to linger, and digital transformation dominates the industrial space, industrial business leaders need to prepare for a new paradigm in global free trade. “A global values trade system is about to…
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Meet Chuck, the Robot That Caught Shopify’s Attention
Meet Chuck. He’s an autonomous, mobile robot designed to streamline millions of daily warehouse transactions through side by side collaboration with human employees. In utilizing Chuck, “you're not just creating a robotic system, you are creating a collaborative environment between human and...
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Where Can I Get Funding for My Early Stage Startup?
With $200 million in funding awarded annually to “high-risk, high impact” startups and small businesses, the congressionally mandated America’s Seed Fund program has been fueling innovative entrepreneurs for 40 years — without taking a stake in their cutting-edge businesses. In today’s episode,...
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How Can Manufacturers Streamline MRO?
In the wake of COVID-19, 81% of business leaders now view the integration of technology as a higher priority than ever before. But while digital transformation is often discussed in the context of automation on the shop floor or digitization of sales & marketing, it’s less often recognized as an...
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What's Holding the Trucking Industry Back from Innovation?
Shifting factors in the trucking industry — like fewer drivers, lower capacity, and rising demand — will likely result in 8-15% higher contract rates this year, according to U.S. Xpress. While this means more opportunity, it also means more paperwork. Will Chu, co-founder and CEO of Vector, a...
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Behind the Scenes: What Happens to Your Product Returns?
During a very busy eCommerce shopping season, there’s an equally busy system running behind the scenes: returns. Last year’s National Returns Day shattered previous records, with holiday shoppers returning 1.9 million packages. How did retailers prepare for this massive influx and what happens to...
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How to Survive Major Disruptions as a Small Business
From shutdowns to reshoring, 2020 leading into 2021 has been a uniquely challenging era for industrial businesses. However, Bead Industries CEO Jill Mayer took these challenges in stride, strategically mapping out her fifth-generation family business' response to the challenges the business faced...
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What Opportunities Will Reshoring Create for Manufacturers in 2021?
With 69% of North American manufacturers recently indicating they're "likely" or even "extremely likely" to reshore their supply chains in response to the impacts of COVID-19 and tariffs, Thomas Insights brought longtime reshoring advocate Barry Zekelman, Executive Chairman and CEO of Zekelman...
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Intel’s IIoT VP Reveals Strategies for Industry 4.0 Adoption
To kick off season 2 of the Thomas Industry Update, we’re excited to welcome Brian McCarson, vice president and senior principal engineer at Intel. McCarson, who leads the Industrial Solutions Division Systems Engineering and Architecture team within the Internet of the Things (IIoT) Group at...
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Taking a Quick Holiday Break: Thomas Programming Note
This will be our last episode for the year as our production team takes a short break to gear up for next year’s lineup of engaging guests. We’re excited to announce that beginning in January we’ll be introducing video podcasts! Until then, have a wonderful holiday season, a happy new year, and...
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Building a Business That Can Withstand COVID-19 with Terri Jondahl
For nearly every manufacturer across North America, 2020 has posed unique business challenges. 64% of manufacturers reported business impacts fueled by shutdown orders alone, based on data from a May Thomas Industrial Survey, which doesn't even account for the substantial supply chain impacts...
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Reinventing Industrial Hiring Strategies with Michael Bell
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, apprenticeships have grown 56% since 2013 and are expected to continue to skyrocket in coming years. In this episode, Thomas CMO Shawn Fitzgerald sits down with Michael Bell, CEO and founder of Synbyo, and Q3 Thomas Champion for Industry winner, to…
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Exploring Opportunities for Veterans in Industry with Lieutenant Commander Terry Farrell
The manufacturing skills gap is one of the most urgent challenges facing key industry players today. Just over 50% of manufacturing leaders anticipate difficulties in attracting and retaining talent in the future, according to the National Association of Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey. But there…
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Making Advanced Manufacturing Technology Approachable with Jason Ray
Although many industrial businesses already recognize the value of Industry 4.0 technologies, making a plan to adopt these technologies can still be an uphill battle. A recent Deloitte survey says that only 10% of C-level executives have longer-range strategies for leveraging new technologies....
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Transforming Operations Through the Digital Thread with Keith Higgins
As industrial business leaders increasingly recognize the value of data-driven decision making, they must first break down information silos. A recent McKinsey report notes that businesses end up spending more than 35% of their time looking for information rather than actively using that...
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Optimizing the Industrial B2B Customer Experience with Jeff Ackel
A recent Walker study says that by the end of 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. Join Tony Uphoff and Jeff Ackel, CEO of Sigma Thermal, as they discuss why the B2B customer experience is so critical to leading a successful industrial…
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Redefinining the Value of Company Culture with Tracy Tenpenny
Recent Gallup data says companies that prioritize company culture by hiring and retaining key talent drive 33% more revenue. Join Thomas Talent Acquisition Specialist Sam Schloss as he discusses the importance of company culture with Tracy Tenpenny, a 2019 Thomas Champion for Industry and the…
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Increasing Uptime Through Data-Driven Decision Making with Ryan Chan
When diving into the data behind UpKeep, a CMMS software that just secured $36 million in Series B funding, it’s easy to see why investors and manufacturers alike are so interested in the company’s mobile-first solution. In a recent case study, UpKeep saved an industrial company $1.3 million and...
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Advising Future Leaders with NextGen for Industry Winner Rose Celestin
Since starting her professional career at just 14 years old as a Purchasing Technician, Thomas NextGen for Industry Winner Rose Celestin has been blazing a trail through the supply chain ranks, quickly becoming a leader for the next generation of supply chain managers. Join Editorial Producer...
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Globalizing an Industrial Business with the Hudson Technologies Team
Considering the U.S. exported $612 billion worth of goods and services in Q1 2020, American business leaders are familiar with global export strategies. But executing a global production strategy, which involves establishing consistent operations, hiring a skilled team, and connecting with...
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Creating a Safer Industrial Workplace with Sam Bradbury and Mark Heidebrecht
Industry employees who don’t feel valued in their workplace or feel they lack the ability to make a change within their workspace are 70% more likely to claim a musculoskeletal injury. Join host Tony Uphoff and Ergonomics International co-founders, Board Certified Exercise Physiologists, and…
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Building a More Diverse Industrial Workforce with Mary Person
Of the more than 15 million people currently employed in manufacturing roles, only 29% are women, 12.3% are Black, and 16.8% are Hispanic or Latino. So how can industrial business leaders take actionable steps toward diversifying their manufacturing teams? Join host Tony Uphoff and Mary Person,...
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Envisioning the Future of IIOT with Shawn Davison
As industrial business leaders increasingly recognize the potential of IIOT, global spending on Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) platforms is expected to surge to $12.44 billion in 2024, a massive jump from the $1.67 billion spent in 2018. Join host Tony Uphoff and Shawn Davison, CEO of…
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Applying Startup Lessons to Corporate Business Models with Sean Ammirati
Entrepreneurship is often seen as a bastion of lean, forward-thinking startups. But these agile, early-stage businesses aren’t the only ones with the capacity to develop game-changing products and services. Join host Tony Uphoff and Sean Ammirati, author, professor, venture capitalist, and...
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Forecasting COVID-19 Impacts on Global Trade with Andrew Blasi Jr.
As the World Trade Organization estimates a global trade decline between 13-32% and double-digit declines in trade volume across almost every region worldwide as a result of COVID-19, it’s clear that business leaders need to prepare for the impending long-term economic effects of the coronavirus....
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Guiding Small Businesses Through COVID-19 Survival with Jim Blasingame
Join Tony Uphoff and Jim Blasingame, author and host of The Small Business Advocate Show, as they discuss how small business leaders should strategically prepare their companies to handle the impacts of COVID-19 and the required business shutdowns associated with the pandemic. Blasingame explains...
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Using Disney Tactics to Strategize Business Growth with Sean Brown
Join Thomas CMO Shawn Fitzgerald and Sean Brown, Marketing Strategy Manager at Disney and Chief Fire Starter at creative brainstorming company Ignite the Mind, as they discuss how industrial business leaders should break through daily distractions to more effectively use their time as an…
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