Manufacturing Insights Podcast

Procurement teams can't solve today's challenges of changing tariffs, rising materials prices, and shrinking time windows, if their best tool is email and excel.

Cost savings get trapped in disconnects between engineering and procurement and between procurement and suppliers. To bridge the gap, you need insights that start conversations on the right foot.

Procurement teams can learn from early successes and failures at Tesla, especially when it comes to trade-off analysis and early collaboration between design, sourcing, and suppliers.

To solve the labor shortage, manufacturing companies must re-brand as great places to work for a diverse group of workers including women and GenZ.

The owner of a machine shop says the cost of offshore manufacturing hurts businesses large and small.

What does it take to balance high product development velocity with cost efficiency? A modular strategy, and smart simulation tools.

Cost and competition threaten manufacturers like never before, but aPriori's CEO knows from experience what bold moves can will pay off in the future.

When tech architecture is decades out of date, manufacturers end up with a tech stack that costs a lot and delivers little. All this can change with smart AI solutions.

When you think of the biggest challenges facing manufacturing today - from cost to time-to-market to sustainability - do you think of Industry 4.0 as a solution? Or is the hype around 4.0 too good to be true?

Discrete manufacturers face challenges - from competition to complexity - that slow time to market and eat away profit.

When executives invest in product development technologies and product lifecycle management, what are the tools they talk about? aPriori's Chief Product Officer explains the market break-down, how aPriori helps turn those investments into value.

Just a 6-month delay in a product's release date will cut a third of expected profit. That's why getting manufacturability right is so critical in the design phase, and why smart designers aren't leaving this up to chance.