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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.
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 24, 2024
The Power of Shifting Left in Product Design
David Van Och — Senior Solution Consultant, PTC
Shifting left in product design empowers teams to make informed decisions that impact cost, manufacturability, and sustainability. A digital copilot like aPriori makes this easy.
June 4, 2024
Racing to Agile Product Design
Jonas Sandelmann — Team Lead, KIT University Formula Student Electric Team
From students designing innovative electric vehicles, to worldwide automotive manufacturers, all teams benefit from an agile approach to product design.
February 14, 2024
How Design for Manufacturing saves $Millions
Terry Hammer — Vice President of Engineering, Dana Light Vehicle Systems
aPriori's Expert Services helped Dana surpass their year 1 goals.
September 20, 2023
Barriers to Change in Engineering
Mark Rushton — Senior Product Marketing Manager, aPriori
Barriers to change stop engineers from innovating. New technology can help change management.
March 16, 2023
Neurodivergence in Engineering
Peter Mann — CEO, Oransi
Neurodivergence can help engineering teams perceive new patterns in data. Digital tools can do the same thing. Companies should embrace both.
February 7, 2023
Digitization Cuts Product Development Times from Months to Hours
Uyiosa Abusomwan — Senior Global Technology Manager for Digital Design & Engineering, Eaton
Automating product development through digitization has delivered amazing gains for Eaton both in time to market and innovation.
November 3, 2022
How Will AI and Machine Learning Impact Manufacturing?
Christopher Nguyen — CEO & Co-Founder at Aitomatic, Inc.
Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are transforming manufacturing as we know it. In this podcast, Panasonic’s veteran AI expert shares how companies today can harness the AI capacities of tomorrow.
October 12, 2022
Sustainability Design in Housing
Paolo Tiramani — CEO, Boxabl
Can the housing crisis be solved by sustainability design? When sustainability design is put towards the problem of building construction, the result is modular solutions that ship more cheaply and assemble more quickly.
September 6, 2022
What is MBD?
Christopher Da Rosa — Mechanical Design Engineer, PDM/CAD Manager, Application Engineer
If manufacturers want to reap the benefits of digital transformation, they need to have a single source of data accepted by everyone in the organization. MBD, or Model-Based Definition, creates that single source of truth. What is MBD? And how can it help you?
August 17, 2022
Is Additive for Everyone?
Robert Turck — Former Project Engineer, Fast Radius
The promises of additive manufacturing include customization, weight reduction, and the benefit of bringing offshore production back in house. But what about the cost? How can you decide if additive is really for you? Robert Turck explains.
June 29, 2022
Staying Ahead of the Global Chip Shortage
Sam Ellis — Mechanical Engineer, formerly of Micross Components, Corfin Industries, and Raytheon
The global shortage of microchips has left engineering and sourcing teams scrambling to figure out how to bring smart products to market. Mechanical Engineer and PCB expert Sam Ellis describes how building contingency planning into the design process can risk-proof manufactures against future disruptions in the global supply chain.
