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my TRUE POSITION — 77 episodes
Space Junk, Collisions, and Control: Who's Managing the Chaos in Orbit?
Rework Is Killing Your Margin: Here's How Top Shops Are Fixing It
Mastering Cash Flow in Manufacturing: Keep the Spread!
Ooops! Let's Clarify the Cost of Some ERPs
Cut the Tank: Why Generating Nitrogen Gas Beats Buying
Next Year Starts Now: Forecasting the 2025 Impact
Doing the GEMBA-rena: Step into the Shop Floor Groove
Is Running Your Machine Shop a Lifestyle Business?
Automation in 2025: Day Hurn Interviews Jim Carr
Behind the Tanks: Who's Really Responsible for Coolant Cleanouts?
The REAL Costs to Scale Your Manufacturing Company
Do Today's Young People Really Understand Our Industry?
Re-Writing the Employee Handbook...Again!
Easy Tips to Automate Your Shop
Air Power: The Driving Force Behind Manufacturing Efficiency
Why Are Manufacturers Such Poor Communicators?
Why a Healthy Shop-Floor Environment Is Critical to Your Culture
Passing the Torch: Why Succession Planning Can't Wait
How Inspection is Driving the Future of Manufacturing
Fraudsters Are Getting Better: Tips to Not Get Screwed
Why All The Interest in Buying Manufacturing Companies?
Another IMTS: The Good, the Bad, and the Awesomeness
Is Marketing for Manufacturers All Smoke & Mirrors?
The Best and Worst States for...?
Generations of Success: The Fluid-Aire Design Story
The Value of Engaging with Your Team
The Pain of Quoting for Free
A Meeting of the MasterMinds
Inspection and Documentation in an Aerospace Environment
Tips on How to Machine With More Passion & Precision
Automation & Lights Out Machining: What I've Learned
More Acronyms: SQRM and SQAM
Team Production Meetings: Why They're Important
Hear It Again: College vs. Trades
Answering the Eight Questions: Core Values
Finding Your Network: For All the Right Reasons
Factory Focus: Fine-Tuning HR Practices for Manufacturing Compliance
The Big Move to a PEO: What I've Learned
Precision Pursuits: Engineering Corporate Growth; Financial, Mental, Physical Resilience
Beyond Limits: Exploring the Boundaries of Pushing Yourself
Engineering a CNC Machine Shop: What Two Friends Learned
Rebranding Your Company: What, Why, and How?
Planning for 2024: Financial, Staffing, Equipment, Budgeting and More!
It's True: We're Really Paperless!
Don't Be Fooled: It's Not Easy to Start a Machine Shop
Anguish, Agony and Lessons Learned :The 2008 Great Recession
Keeping the Conditions Healthy on the Shop Floor
Are You Ready to Retire?
New Year, New Goals
Gaining Extreme Value From Your MEP
Safety on the Shop Floor: Why It's Important
We're Only Quoting the Job Not Machining It
Creating Data Packages for an AS9100 Machine Shop
Employment Agreements: Why They're Important
Buying Equipment on Speculation: Right or Wrong?
Writing a Resume 101 and Tips on Interviewing
Marketing for Manufacturers: It's Not All Smoke and Mirrors
Scaling Your Business: Risk vs. Reward
Managing the EBITDA
Manufacturing Leaders Leading
Optimizing Value-Add Services From Your Vendors
Losing a Multi-Million Dollar Customer Over a Social Post
BIG(er) Manufacturing Associations: What's the Difference?
The Effectiveness of Performance Reviews
What Is Pay by the Minute? Changing an Old School Philosophy
How to Get the Most of Your Manufacturing Association
Manufacturing Success: Two Young Sisters Show Us How to Run a Business After a Loss
What to Look for When Choosing and Joining a Manufacturing Association
Buying a Machine Shop: Desirable or Detrimental?
Manufacturing: Tall Tales From the Shop Floor
Beware of the Opportunist
Why Good Communication Is Key
War Room Meetings: Do They Help or Hinder?
Taking on Debt: Is It Worth It?
Parting Ways With a 21 Year Employee
CYBER Fraud: It's Only A Matter of Time
Manufacturing Leaders: Unite!