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Manufacturing Meet Up — 42 episodes

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Fix Reactive Maintenance with Better Planning ft. Doc Palmer

2

From Reactive to Proactive: Ricky Smith, CMRP

3

Why Cutting Maintenance Costs Backfires

4

2025 Scorecard & 2026 Outlook | S2 E21 | Manufacturing Meet Up

5

The Future of Factory Work: Skills-Based Flexible Scheduling

6

Firefighting: The Reactive Maintenance Trap

7

Manufacturing Career Growth: Supervisor or Specialist?

8

Machine Health Q&A: Prevention Beats Repair

9

Manufacturing AI: From KPIs to 310% ROI

10

Stop Managing Tasks, Start Leading People

11

The Innovation Mentality for Manufacturing

12

Manufacturing 201: Next-Level Skills

13

Manufacturing 101: Essential Shop Floor Skills

14

Can U.S. Manufacturing Compete? 3 Surprising Truths

15

85% of Manufacturers Double Down on AI

16

Safety Secrets Every Plant Manager Needs

17

Marines to Manufacturing: Military Skills That Fill the Labor Gap

18

Why Your AI Gains Disappear

19

Best Root Cause Analysis Methods?

20

Manufacturing: Perception vs. Reality

21

Surviving Tariff Chaos: Manufacturing Strategies That Actually Work

22

5 Things to Check Before Rolling Out Manufacturing AI

23

AI-Powered Maintenance Success

24

Manufacturing Needs Women

25

Best of 2024 (with Bonus Content)

26

2024 Trends, 2025 Predictions

27

Ask Me Anything: AI, Crazy Machine Fixes, & Mentorship

28

AI and the New Era of Manufacturing

29

Hispanic Heritage Month: Interviewing Latino Manufacturing Role Models

30

Ask Me Anything (AMA): Pilot Purgatory, Crazy Root Causes, and More

31

Zero Waste, TPM, and 5S

32

AMA: Machine health savings and career tips

33

Operational Excellence Part 3: AM/PM and Focus Improvement

34

AMA: GenAI & How to Avoid Machine Health Mistakes

35

Operational Excellence, Part 2: People & Quality

36

AMA: Core skills, 4.0 tech for M&R, and precision maintenance

37

Breaking down the alphabet soup of operational excellence

38

AMA: The best training courses and must have tools for the shop floor

39

The rise of “new-collar” jobs and top plant tour tips

40

AMA: Best Vibration Analysis Setup?

41

Tackling Turnover with Tech and Training

42

Welcome to the Manufacturing Meet Up Podcast