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Manufacturing Insights Podcast
Learn from today’s leading experts in design, sourcing, cost engineering, and executive management how they get the insights they need to decide how to make it and where to make it.
November 24, 2025

Technology for Smarter Sourcing Decisions
Jody Markopoulos — Sourcing & Procurement Expert
How to get the real-time data to balance costs, delivery, and quality when choosing and negotiating with suppliers.
November 6, 2025

Podcast: Getting Cost Right the First Time
Sam Freesmeyer — Executive Engineering Expert
Design teams often face costly rework late in development. Building cost assessment into every stage can prevent it.
October 29, 2025

Accelerating Product Design with AI
Craig Melrose — Global Operations and Business Leader
AI is transforming how companies design and manufacture products—linking engineering and production data to drive faster, smarter product refresh cycles.
October 8, 2025

The Need for Speed
Stephanie Feraday — President and CEO, aPriori
How can manufacturers stay competitive amid global volatility? By combining speed, quality, and cost efficiency from the start of product development. Data, automation, and AI solutions are helping leading companies design smarter, source better, and launch faster.
September 3, 2025

Maximizing the Value of Your Manufacturing Data with AI
Chris Herron — Chief Technology Officer, aPriori
Combining AI with existing data will unlock new value across the product design lifecycle, leading to higher profitability potential from design engineering to sourcing.
August 7, 2025

Selling Sustainability Means Margin AND Mission
Josh Dorfman — Co-Founder, Plantd Building Materials
For manufacturers to win today, it's not enough to sell on values. Carbon neutral products also need to compete on cost and quality.
July 14, 2025

AI for Profitable Sustainability
Berk Birand — CEO, Fero Labs
Profitability and sustainability might have once been tradeoffs, but all that's changing with the help of smart AI software solutions for manufacturing.
June 25, 2025

Forging: What’s Ahead for an Industry Being Transformed?
Carola Sekreter — Director of Business Development, Campbell Press
One of the oldest manufacturing processes in human history is facing rapid change due to consumer demand, product lifecycles, and AI. Here's how forging companies can succeed at the pace of industry today.
June 5, 2025

Should Cost Panel
Wendy Sifuentes & Ashok Kaliyaperumal — Team Leads at Signify and Danfoss
Should-cost models are only powerful if they're credible, actionable, and collaborative. Learn how two experts turn cost data into real negotiation outcomes.
May 8, 2025

Database Technology to Improve Financial KPIs
Alexander Ladd, — CEO, MindStream Analytics
Manufacturing operations create massive amounts of data. To use that data to improve financial KPIs it takes a single verifiable version of truth that every person can access and understand.
April 9, 2025

How Will Tariffs Change Your Supply Chain?
Ron Crabtree — CEO, MetaOps
Most supply chains will need to change as a result of tariffs. How well you adapt depends on the data you have and your ability to act quickly.
March 26, 2025

Mitigating the Impact of Tariffs – Your Questions Answered
Marie Magro and April Guenet at aPriori — Senior Consultant and Product Marketing Manager
Tariffs hitting your margins? Learn how to aPriori can show you the impact of tariffs on your costs, so you can make fast, data-backed sourcing decisions in real time.

