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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.
March 12, 2025
The Risks of Doing Procurement As Usual
Spencer Penn — CEO, LightSource
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.
February 25, 2025
What Stops Sourcing and Engineering Teams from Achieving ROI together?
Spencer Penn — CEO, LightSource
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.
February 12, 2025
Procurement Best Practices from Tesla and Beyond
Spencer Penn — CEO, LightSource
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.
January 23, 2025
Fix Tomorrow’s Labor Shortage Today
Mariana Cogan — CMO, Hexagon America
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.
January 15, 2025
The Cost of Offshoring for US Manufacturing
John Gardner — Author of Manufacture Local: How to Make America the Manufacturing Superpower of the World
The owner of a machine shop says the cost of offshore manufacturing hurts businesses large and small.
December 16, 2024
Engineering Velocity: How to Make it to Market without Cost Creep
Hank Marcy — Former VP Global Product Technology, Whirlpool Corporation
What does it take to balance high product development velocity with cost efficiency? A modular strategy, and smart simulation tools.
December 2, 2024
The 2 Biggest Challenges Facing Manufacturing in 2025
Stephanie Feraday — CEO, aPriori
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.
November 12, 2024
Save Cost by Flattening the Tech Stack
Mike Bowers — Chief Architect, FairCom
When tech architecture is decades out of date, manufacturers end up with a tech stack that costs a lot and delivers little.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.
October 24, 2024
Is The Promise of Industry 4.0 Too Good to Be True?
Paul Haimes — VP EMEAI Solutions Consulting, PTC
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?
October 5, 2024
Exec Talk: Why Is It So Hard to Bring Products to Market on Time?
Peter Bilello — CEO, CIMdata
Discrete manufacturers face challenges - from competition to complexity - that slow time to market and eat away profit.
September 18, 2024
Exec Talk: aPriori and the Map of Product Development Technologies
Fielder Hiss — Chief Product Officer, aPriori
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.
August 26, 2024
How Much Profit Is Wasted By Design Delays?
Matt Mullan — Senior Director of Cost Model Development, aPriori
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.
