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Making Chips Podcast for Manufacturing Leaders

Manufacturing is challenging, but if you are connected to a community of leaders, you can elevate your skills, solve your problems and grow your business! MakingChips was launched in 2014 to equip and inspire the metalworking nation. Hundreds of episodes and a million downloads later, it’s an industry-leading source of information, inspiration, and entertainment for manufacturing leaders of all types. It’s hosted by Jason Zenger and Nick Goellner, two multi-generational manufacturing leaders, and they’re joined by a rotating panel of expert guests – including Titan Gilroy (TITANS of CNC), John Saunders (NYC CNC), Mark TerryBerry (Haas Automation), and many more. Join us as we tackle the topics that keep you up at night - leadership, operations, technology, growth, workforce development and culture.
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Sep 27, 2022

What would the shop of the future look like? What’s more exciting—hardware or software? What can manufacturing leaders learn from B2C businesses? In this special LIVE episode at IMTS 2022, we chat with special guests Mike Payne with Hill Manufacturing  and Eike Huebner with Ellison Technologies about what they would do with their shops if they had 10 million dollars to spend. Listen to this episode to find out what the machine shop of the future looks like. You need to use technology to make chips efficiently because if you’re not making chips, you’re not making money!

BAM!

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  • [1:49] The US is on the cutting edge of manufacturing
  • [2:30] Learn more about each of our guests
  • [3:50] What would the shop of the future look like?
  • [6:24] The future is focused on software development
  • [9:12] Mike’s background in software and data collection
  • [11:35] How Mike and Eike would build the shop of the future
  • [15:16] How Mike doubled the size of his machine shop
  • [16:48] What manufacturing leaders can learn from B2C 
  • [19:05] The impact of technology on additive manufacturing 
  • [22:06] Why style of CNC machine tools should you invest in? 
  • [25:40] What is a human-machine interface?
  • [27:30] Mike and Eike’s call to action to the manufacturing nation

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Sep 6, 2022

As a leader looking to grow his business, Tom Schroeder knew it was time to start gathering data to inform the growth process. So Tom began to implement machine monitoring technology in his shop. In this episode of MakingChips, hear how Tom implemented Amper Technology and the impact it has made on his business. 

Because let’s face it, if you’re not monitoring your machines, you don’t know which ones are making enough chips, and if you’re not making enough chips, you’re not making money. BAM!

– Nick

BONUS: Akshat Thirani—the CEO and Co-Founder of Amper—also joins us in this episode to cover machine monitoring from every aspect. 

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  • [3:24] Nick’s upcoming podcast: Light’s Out
  • [5:29] Jim’s upcoming podcast: My True Position
  • [7:16] Manufacturing News: Economy expectations
  • [10:59] Meet the guests on this week’s episode
  • [13:02] Learn more about Tom’s background
  • [15:05] Shifting from product manufacturing to technology OEM
  • [21:45] What inspired Tom to look for machine monitoring solutions
  • [26:46] Why Tom wanted to monitor and measure his machines
  • [32:45] Why is Amper easier to implement than the alternative(s)?
  • [39:22] How Amper is helping PBC Linear improve
  • [41:27] The core strategies moving into the future

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