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.
August 7, 2025
Josh Dorfman sustainability expert podcaster

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
Berk Birand AI expert podcast guest

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.
October 24, 2024
Podcast on the promise of Industry 4.0 with Paul Haimes

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?
March 19, 2024
Sylwia Lambert is an expert on supply chain sustainability

TE Connectivity and Supply Chain Sustainability

Sylwia Lambert — Director, COE Procurement – Cost Analytics, TE Connectivity
With twin goals of achieving science-based targets for Scope 3, AND saving millions of dollars annually, TE Connectivity sees a common solution using aPriori to reduce scrap at their suppliers.
March 7, 2024
Catherine Knicker of PTC talks about achieving sustainability with aPriori

Hitting Sustainability Goals with aPriori and PTC

Catherine Knicker — Chief Officer of Strategy and Marketing, PTC
87% of PTC's customers say sustainability is a strategic goal. aPriori and PTC give them verifiable data to monitor and reach their science-based targets under SBTI.
February 26, 2024
Digital Thread is a precondition for supply chain tracking and sustainability

The Digital Thread Makes Supply Chain Sustainable

Andrea Aranguren — CEO, MineHub
Digitization makes it possible to analyze carbon footprint across the supply chain. So why are only 50% of manufacturers ready with a digital thread?
November 2, 2023
Nic Meyer of ecoinvent says LCA data helps manufacturers design more sustainable products

What’s the Cost of Sustainability?

Nickolas Meyer — CEO, ecoinvent
ecoinvent gives manufacturers the data to know if they're sustainable. aPriori uses that data to give advanced insights on cost and carbon, as early as the design stage.
April 13, 2023

Supply Chain Carbon Footprint

Mark Reisig — Sustainability Consultant, CIMdata
Calculating the carbon footprint of your supply chain is key to reducing the environmental impact of your products.
March 30, 2023

Technology for Sustainable Agriculture

Sam Freesmeyer — Former VP of Engineering, AGCO
The new technology requirements for sustainable agriculture extend past tractors into digital solutions for tracking carbon and reducing cost.
February 16, 2023
Sustainable Production Software App Engineer

Sustainable Production Software

Daniel Patterson — Senior Application Engineer, aPriori
Manufacturers who are serious about sustainable production need a robust solution that reveals sustainability problems before any parts are produced.
January 12, 2023
Stephanie Feraday

The Biggest Manufacturing Challenges of 2023

Stephanie Feraday — CEO, aPriori
At the start of 2023, what threats are keeping execs up at night? CEO Stephanie Feraday reveals the biggest problems facing manufacturing today, and how aPriori is helping to solve them.
January 5, 2023

Sustainable Sourcing

Tonni Rasmussen — Global Manager Cost & Value Engineering, Grundfos
The ability to compute and track the real drivers of carbon emissions is allowing companies to track sustainability all throughout their value chain. An early adopter of sustainability insights describes how this has changed his decision-making around sourcing and procurement.

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