Manufacturing Mavericks aren’t afraid to shake things up and stand out from the crowd. They are embracing the best tools and technology to showcase world-class American manufacturing and grow their business. Join Greg McHale, founder of Datanomix, as he sits down with these exceptional people to hear their stories and explore the important lessons they learned along the way. Listeners can gain valuable insights they can use in their own facilities to improve their bottom line.
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Lean Blog Audio: Practical Lean Thinking, Psychological Safety, and Continuous Improvement
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Lean Blog Audio is a short-form podcast featuring audio versions of articles from LeanBlog.org, written, read, and expanded by Mark Graban. Each episode explores practical Lean thinking, psychological safety, continuous improvement, and leadership—through real-world examples from healthcare, manufacturing, startups, and other complex work environments. Topics include learning from mistakes, reducing fear and blame, improving systems, and using data thoughtfully through tools like Process Beh ...
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The Rest is Lean Channel is a light-hearted and educational look at how to make businesses better through Lean Manufacturing and Operational Excellence. Suited for all levels of understanding and from any industry or geographical region. John, Alan & Russell are time-served lean professionals with over 30 years each in this field. Leading and coaching some of the best businesses from SMEs to multi-nationals. Trained by some of the highest calibre Japanese masters from Toyota(one step from Oh ...
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Two successful entrepreneurs talk about manufacturing, lean principles, and the freedom they are pursuing in life and business.
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Conversations with industrial and systems engineers about their work, ideas and solutions. This podcast will feature both IISE members and non-members who come from diverse backgrounds in both academia and industry to discuss a wide range of topics as it relates to their work as well as some off-beat topics that we think you, our audience, will find fascinating.
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Lean Precast Insights Practical, no-BS conversations for precast concrete producers who want to stop leaving money on the table. Every two weeks, Richard (20+ years in precast plants across Europe) breaks down exactly: • How top factories are hitting 12–15 % operating margins while everyone else hovers at 6–8 % • Where lean principles, AI quality control, digital twins, and modern software actually deliver fast payback in a concrete factory • Real numbers and real case studies — never theory ...
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The official podcast of the Lean Enterprise Institute.
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Host Sean Frost is joined by experts in the manufacturing industry to discuss bringing big ideas to life. Join us every episode for a deep dive into manufacturing trends, processes, innovation, and how to be successful in the ever-changing world of manufacturing.
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Lean Smarts Podcast: Lean Manufacturing | Leadership
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Daniel Crawford, founder of Lean Smarts, shares about all things related to lean manufacturing at work, home, and in life. If you want to understand lean, become a lean thinker, and take your leadership to the next level, this is the show for you!
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Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond
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Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations features thoughtful, in-depth discussions with leaders, authors, executives, and practitioners who are applying Lean thinking in the real world. Hosted by Mark Graban—author of Lean Hospitals, Measures of Success, and The Mistakes That Make Us—the podcast explores Lean as a management system, a leadership philosophy, and a people-centered approach to continuous improvement. Episodes span healthcare, manufacturing, startups, techn ...
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Cut through the noise. Solve real problems. Transform your shop floor.Manufacturing Stream delivers hard-hitting, actionable insights from decades of shop floor experience. In just 15-30 minutes per episode, hosts Eric Whitley and Chris Rost tackle what's actually dragging down your manufacturing performance - with a laser focus on eliminating costly downtime and accelerating digital maturity.No corporate fluff, no theoretical nonsense. Just proven strategies and real stories from the manufa ...
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We deliver practical insights and real-world strategies for Lean, Six Sigma, and Operational Excellence. Through lessons from KaiNexus webinars and conversations with customers, improvement leaders, and team members, each episode explores what it takes to build a resilient culture of Continuous Improvement. Learn how organizations engage employees, strengthen problem-solving capability, and sustain meaningful operational results across industries. Whether you're new to CI or leading major tr ...
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Tune in to our Lean Manufacturer podcast where expert guests bring their outside view of the IIoT and discuss various aspects of manufacturing. Over the course of the series, we’ll cover some of the most important ways the IIoT can maximize manufacturing efficiency and bring value to your organization, including the need for reducing planned and unplanned downtime, enabling operational efficiency, ensuring digital continuous improvement, and so much more.
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Mighty Line Minute with Dave Tabar - Talking Safety Codes & Standards, Music, and Business Innovation
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The Mighty Line Minute podcast is part of the Safety Stripes Podcast Network, sponsored by Mighty Line floor tape and signs. Hosted by Dave Tabar, episodes air primarily on Mondays and deliver focused, engaging content on workplace safety, operations, and industrial best practices. In addition to safety standards such as OSHA, ANSI, NFPA, ISO, and others, the podcast explores the practical implications of regulatory compliance, risk management, and loss control. Occasional episodes feature u ...
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Augmented Ops is a podcast for industrial leaders, shop floor operators, citizen developers, and anyone else that cares about what the future of frontline operations will look like across industries. We equip our listeners with the knowledge to understand the latest advancements at the intersection of manufacturing and technology, as well as actionable insights that they can implement in their own operations. This show is presented by Tulip, the Frontline Operations Platform.
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This podcast brings you audio about "Toyota Kata" from online videos and webinars, reformatted to make it easy to listen while driving, walking, or traveling. Content is used with the permission of Mike Rother and others who originally created the content. The podcast is produced by Mark Graban. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kata-cast/support
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Manufacturing is tough—but you don't have to go it alone. If you're leading a manufacturing business, you face constant pressure: staying competitive, adopting new tech, managing people, and driving growth. MakingChips helps you tackle those challenges head-on. Since 2014, we've been equipping manufacturing leaders with the knowledge and inspiration they need to succeed. With hundreds of episodes and over a million downloads, MakingChips is a top resource for the metalworking nation—covering ...
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PMI’s podcast, Uncommon Sense – Tools to Improve your Work Forever, gives you the opportunity to listen to our expert Consultants talk about a wide variety of tools so that you can refresh your memory and gather inspiration for which tools might help you solve your latest improvement challenge or problem. Each podcast is a rapid 10 – 15 minute download of what the tool is, when you would use it, and tips for effective application to enable you to decide quickly whether this tool is the one y ...
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On The Shoulders of Giants is a show by Max Krug and Dave Griffith discussing Operational Excellence. Operational Excellence focuses on achieving breakthrough results by establishing alignment throughout an organization. Breakthrough means MASSIVE CHANGE, the kind that will totally reshape an organization. If you only want to get 5% better, this show is not for you! We discuss TQM, TOC, Lean, Six Sigma, as well as other tools and methods to find those breakthrough results. Our goal is to sha ...
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The Allied Advisors Podcast is designed for mid-market manufacturers looking to scale and sharpen their competitive edge. Each episode features in-depth conversations with lean manufacturing experts and top-performing manufacturing executives who share proven strategies, hard-earned lessons, and real-world success stories. Our goal is simple: every listener walks away with practical insights they can apply immediately to drive growth, improve efficiency, and lead their teams more effectively.
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Navigating Canadian Business Regulations: What’s Required, What’s Optional, and What Could Cost You We explore government-imposed rules (at the local, provincial, and federal levels), industry regulations, and voluntary compliance measures. Learn what Canadian businesses are doing to stay compliant, competitive and leverage voluntary standards to build trust and credibility.
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Formerly known as ”Lean Whiskey.” Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh share more than just their MIT degrees: they’re authors, speakers, and trusted voices in the Lean community... plus they’re both serious about their coffee. Each episode offers insightful discussions on essential topics like operational excellence, leadership effectiveness, organizational culture, problem-solving strategies, innovation, and building a thriving Lean culture. Whether you’re an experienced executive, an ambitio ...
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What makes Silicon Valley the innovation capital of the world? It all starts on Sand Hill Road, considered the mecca of venture capital. Join us for insightful interviews from the heart of Silicon Valley with the VCs, start-ups and innovators behind the trending technologies of tomorrow. Hosted by NBC Bay Area business and technology reporter and host of Press:Here, Scott McGrew.
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📺 Watch and subscribe to the newest episode on the Build It Better Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BuildItBetterPodcast 🎙️ Listen to the #podcast on your favorite platform: The Build It Better Podcast brings you the news and most up to date advances in the prefabricated cold formed steel industry. Whether you're a builder, architect or engineer, join us on this journey and let us introduce you to the future of construction with prefabricated cold-formed steel! Robert Johnson, th ...
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While Washington argues and Wall Street profits, a quiet transformation is reshaping healthcare: one community at a time. Relocalizing Health takes you inside this movement with Dave Chase, founder of Health Rosetta, as he talks with the people leading healthcare's ground-up transformation. Their approach? Keep care local, rebuild trust, and redirect healthcare wasted spending into something that actually serves people. You'll hear real-world stories from employers, clinicians, and civic lea ...
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"It takes Courage to love our selves enough to love others" Amber Fields In this show we will talk about how we uncover you, testimonials and stories of what happens when you realize your gifts and show up as the "human being" you were created to be. Our guests will share how they discovered their gifts and how they are using them. My hope is that you will walk away inspired to love yourself courageously enough to dig further into your gifts & core values so that you too can see how much of ...
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Founded 30 years ago, Bryden Wood champions a radical transformation in design and construction. Our global team delivers comprehensive services across architecture, engineering, and digital delivery, driving innovation from concept to completion. We've led projects like the UK's first net-zero commercial building and Europe's highest IT yield data centre, showcasing our commitment to sustainability and efficiency. Our approach harnesses digital tools and manufacturing processes for smarter, ...
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The Hardware Entrepreneur
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“Software eats the world”, as one famous investor once said it. However, our Earth runs on resources and is based on atoms rather than bits. Our true progress therefore depends mainly on our producing, selling innovative physical products, that is hardware. Hardware is...different. Challenges abound in designing, manufacturing, getting funding, hiring, innovating, delivering to the customers. Resources are scattered around and only a few exist. Where do you get real, practical knowledge? Thi ...
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MFG Monkey Podcast: Exploring Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership in Manufacturing The MFG Monkey Podcast, hosted by Dustin McMillan, President and CEO of MCMILLANCO, offers invaluable insights into the world of manufacturing. The podcast features conversations with industry experts, innovators, and successful entrepreneurs, highlighting the stories behind how manufacturing companies are built, scaled, and sustained. Why Listen to MFG Monkey? Expert Insights: Each episode features i ...
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Beyond the Shop Floor: Living LEAN in Manufacturing
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Send us a text This is the audio version of the Sidney Breakfast Club - After Hours YouTube deep dive. Our guests: Jim Lowe is a manufacturing leader at Bailey Electronics, Ray Brougham runs Rainhouse Manufacturing Canada, and Mike Viala owns Viala Technologies. They talk about using lean methods to make work easier and businesses stronger. They ex…
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When Shipping Fails, You Fly | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E126
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What happens when a rush job collides with holiday shipping chaos and failure isn’t an option? In this episode, Andrew walks us through a real-world manufacturing crisis involving last-minute customer demands, specialty tooling delays, weather-related shipping failures, and nonstop overtime. Along the way, Jay and Andrew cover: the true cost of rus…
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How Lean Manufacturing Can Seriously Boost Your Profits in Precast
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In this 28-minute episode, Richard (20 years in precast plants across Europe) shows: - The five deadly wastes you see in 95 % of factories - The four simple changes that push operating margins from 7% → 11 % (real case: +€0.6 million profit, same revenue, same equipment) - Why “we’re too busy” and “lean doesn’t work in concrete” are the most expens…
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Which everyday leadership behaviours are building trust… and which might be eroding it? Join Partner Consultant, Des Kelly, in conversation with Susannah Clarke as they explore what it really takes to earn trust as a leader. Using the simple but powerful “Trust Equation,” Des shares how credibility, reliability and emotional safety combine, and how…
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At the Boring Bar: Rare Perfection, Real Talk, and the Systems That Separate Top Shops, 500
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Some episodes are planned. Others are produced. And then there are episodes like this one—where the setting, the people, and the moment all collide into something memorable. For the 500th episode of MakingChips, the team gathered once again At the Boring Bar for an unfiltered, bourbon-fueled roundtable with leaders from across the manufacturing eco…
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Unlearning Old Habits: What a Pickleball Mistake Taught Me About Feedback and Learning
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The blog post In this Lean Blog Audio episode, Mark Graban reflects on an unexpected leadership lesson learned on the pickleball court. As a beginner unlearning decades-old tennis habits, Mark experiences firsthand how execution errors, muscle memory, and self-criticism can quietly undermine learning. A kind instructor and supportive playing partne…
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Anticipation, Automation, & Ambition: The Bassett Spring Co. Story
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Send us a text Through the achievement and perseverance of men and women who led, built, and listened when few did, this episode reminds us that anticipation shapes safer workplaces, stronger leadership, and lasting confidence in today’s world. View all Mighty Line Safety Talk Blogs and Podcasts Learn more about Mighty Line floor tape and Mighty Li…
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Brewing Medicine: Christina Smolke and the Race to Reinvent Drug Manufacturing
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Dr. Christina Smolke runs a brewery, except the yeast isn’t making alcohol. It’s making medicine. At Antheia, Smolke has turned a long-shot Stanford research project into a new way to manufacture critical pharmaceutical ingredients, using biology instead of traditional chemistry. The approach is already being used to produce opioid precursors for N…
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Episode 166: Giving Robots "Common Sense": Inside RightHand Robotics with Yaro Tenzer
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Robotics has promised to transform manufacturing and logistics for decades — but turning intelligent machines into reliable, everyday operators remains hard. In this episode of Augmented Ops, Natan Linder sits down with Yaro Tenzer, co-founder and CEO of RightHand Robotics, to talk about what it actually takes to deploy AI-powered robotics in real …
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Five NUMMI Tour Lessons That Still Define Lean Thinking
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The blog post In this episode, Mark reflects on a visit he made twenty years ago to the NUMMI plant in Fremont, California — the Toyota-GM joint venture that became legendary in Lean circles. What stayed with him wasn’t flashy tools or so-called Lean perfection, but a series of small, human moments that revealed how Lean actually works as a managem…
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Eliminate Stockouts: How ARDA Is Rebuilding Manufacturing From the Card Up
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Show Notes: The Allied Advisors Podcast — ARDA Episode Guests: Kyle Henson, Co-Founder & CEO, ARDA Uriel Eisen, President & Co-Founder, ARDA (Forbes 30 Under 30) Hosted by: Justin Goethe, Allied Advisors Episode Overview In this episode, Justin sits down with two of manufacturing's fastest-rising innovators, Kyle Henson and Uriel Eisen, the founder…
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Send us a text A visit to grandmother brings back memories of a missed dance opportunity, stressing the importance of seizing important moments. Insights on regret and the significance of proactive safety measures are shared. The narrative highlights the need for preparation and confidence in decision-making to prevent future regrets. The episode c…
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🎅✨ Here’s the problem: Santa’s operation defies all logic. One night. Billions of deliveries. Zero defects. A global supply chain that never misses a deadline. So…what if Santa is an industrial and systems engineer? In this festive special of Problem Solved, IISE members and volunteers share short, creative voice memos imagining how Santa’s North P…
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Beyond Therapy: Executive Coaching, Ethics, and Midlife Change with Antonia Medeiros
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Send us a text Antonia Medeiros is an executive life coach and author who coaches people through big life changes in her coaching business. She talks about the ethics and standards in coaching, the difference between coaching and therapy, and how small actions over time can create real change. Antonia also explains her work with girls’ education in…
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From Scarcity to Sales Pipeline: How Smart Shops Take Control of Growth with Factur, 499
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What happens when a machine shop does everything right operationally but still feels exposed when markets shift, customers pull back, or one industry cools overnight? In this episode of MakingChips, the conversation turns squarely toward one of the most uncomfortable and misunderstood areas of manufacturing leadership: proactive sales and diversifi…
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Running Your Shop at 100% Capacity Is a Mistake | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E125
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Jay and Andrew discuss real-world shop challenges like air quality, ventilation, coolant selection, and bandsaw blade performance. The conversation expands into capacity planning, why running at 100% utilization is a hidden liability, and how maintaining margin and flexibility allows shops to respond quickly when customers need help. Along the way,…
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The Tact of Takt II aka You Can't Be a Little Bit Pregnant!
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Send us a text A continuation from our previous Tact is Takt episode, due to the deluge of questions asked by our subscribers. Options to deal with variations in your Takt calculation, visualising the opportunity for further improvement, skills, flexibility, 8 Wastes, and the impact of WIP are all touched upon in this jam-packed episode. If you're …
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‘The Rock’ Says Getting Lean is Something Anybody Can Do… If You Work At It
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The blog post Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson once joked that his incredible physical transformation came from one simple routine: working out six hours a day, every day, for twenty years. In this episode, Mark explores why that line from Central Intelligence mirrors how organizations misunderstand Lean. Many admire the “after” picture of Toyota, ThedaCa…
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Webinar: Unlock the Power of Leadership: The Electrolux Manufacturing System (EMS) Way
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Webinar page with video, slides, and more What makes a Lean transformation last not just a few years, but two decades? At Electrolux, the answer wasn’t more tools, more training, or more Kaizen events. The breakthrough came when the company realized that leadership behaviors — not Lean mechanics — were the deciding factor in whether improvement stu…
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Building Community-Owned Health Plans to Save Independent Hospitals
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Welcome back to Relocalizing Health, the podcast where we shine a light on the communities taking healthcare back from corporate control and making it serve people, rather than profit. In today’s episode, host Dave Chase sits down with Christina King, a benefit advisor from Columbus, Ohio, who’s breaking the mold on how we think about hospitals and…
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We’re closing out 2025 by spotlighting the leaders who aren’t just talking about the future of manufacturing—they’re building it in real time. This wrap-up episode features five voices who are rewriting what modern leadership on the shop floor actually looks like today—and where it's headed. Hear from five industry leaders, Adam Gordon, Daniel Angl…
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Improvement practitioners know the fear: you’ve done the work, you’ve found the solution… but your improvement project just doesn’t progress. The reality is that sometimes budget shifts, priorities change, stakeholders block. But stalled improvement projects aren’t wasted. In this episode, Damion Albinson joins Susannah Clarke to unpack what you st…
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Inside the IISE Innovation Cup: How Bold Ideas Become Industry Breakthroughs
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Across industries, teams are solving massive, complex challenges — but too often, those breakthroughs stay hidden inside their organizations. The IISE Innovation Cup, sponsored by the University of Tennessee Knoxville, changes that. It gives teams a global stage to showcase measurable results, real-world impact, and the power of industrial and syst…
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5 Big Lean Questions with Mark Graban: Purpose, Misconceptions, and the Path Forward
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The blog post In this episode, Mark Graban flips roles and becomes the guest—answering five core Lean questions posed by longtime Lean thinker Tim McMahon of the A Lean Journey blog. These questions have been answered by many practitioners over the years, and they cut straight to the purpose, the misconceptions, and the future of Lean. Mark shares …
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Building the Employer of Choice: Skilled Trades Recruitment with Maki Morriss
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Send us a text Maki Morriss, the founder and CEO of Riverstone Management Ltd., talks about helping construction and manufacturing companies find the right people. She walks through the rules around licensing, foreign worker permits, and checking trade tickets so companies stay safe and legal. Maki also covers how things like wages, culture, and so…
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Chaos, Curiosity & Chipmaking: Larry Robbins' Wild Ride Through Manufacturing, 498
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Some conversations feel scripted. This one… absolutely did not. Larry Robbins walked in ready to talk life, passion, family, culture, workholding, philosophy, and whatever else popped into his head — and somehow it all connected back to manufacturing. This episode of MakingChips is one of the most unhinged, hilarious, honest, and wisdom-packed conv…
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Majoring On The Majors | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E124
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Tiny improvements won’t move the company forward unless leaders also make the big decisions. Lean is life-changing, but you can’t lean your way into a clear vision. You have to choose it. That means looking honestly at customers, pricing, equipment, automation, space, and your team, and fixing what really bugs you at the highest level. That lesson …
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Lean Without Layoffs: The Commitment That Makes Continuous Improvement Work
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The blog post In this episode, Mark Graban explores one of the most misunderstood — and most essential — principles of Lean: the commitment to no layoffs due to improvement. Drawing from his work with Johnson & Johnson’s ValuMetrix Services team and stories from Lean Hospitals, Mark explains why Lean cannot thrive in a culture of fear and why prote…
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Year-End Safety: Setting the Stage with Mighty Line®
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Send us a text December is a busy month for warehousing and manufacturing, filled with planning and safety measures. Companies focus on budgeting and maintaining clear pathways. Mighty Line highlights the importance of safety signage and industrial floor tape to meet year-end goals. The emphasis is on caring for employee safety, which boosts morale…
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Dr. Ed Engleman: Vivo Capital’s Cancer Hacker
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Legendary Stanford immunologist Dr. Ed Engleman helped create the foundations of modern cancer treatment. From early breakthroughs in immune-cell training to a brand-new discovery, Engleman explains how the immune system can now be switched on and off like circuitry, with implications for cancer, autoimmune disease, infections and more. He also bre…
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Episode 165: The Future Process Engineer with Chris Luecke of Manufacturing Happy Hour
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What does the future of process engineering look like in an era shaped by AI, automation, and rapid operational change? In this episode, Chris Luecke joins Natan Linder to explore how the role is evolving, what still defines great engineering, and why human judgment remains essential on the modern shop floor. Chris is the host of Manufacturing Happ…
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Cutting through the Noise in Tech: Sarah Milstein's Advice for Leaders Who Want to Keep People Focused on Value Creation
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In this episode of the WLEI Podcast, we speak with executive coach and engineering leader Sarah Milstein about how to keep teams focused on value creation by putting people at the center of work design. My conversation with Sarah explores: How to create cultures of respect as a leader How companies can simplify job roles, salaries, and raises to fo…
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The Collapse of American Health Care and Pathways to Community Self-Determination
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Welcome to Relocalizing Health, where we dig deep into the heart of America's healthcare crisis and the opportunities that can rise from its collapse. In this Solo Episode, host Dave Chase confronts the uncomfortable truth: our healthcare system is not just broken, it's on the brink of collapse, with skyrocketing costs, staggering waste, and millio…
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Strategic Agility in Manufacturing: Insights from Drew Lawlor of Global Chain Consulting
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Guest: Drew Lawlor, Managing Partner at Global Chain Consulting Host: Justin Goethe, Founder & President of Allied Advisors Audience: Mid-market manufacturers, supply chain leaders, PE operators, CEOs, COOs Episode Theme: Practical, strategic ways manufacturers can navigate today’s tariff volatility, supply chain complexity, and global risk. ⭐ Epis…
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How Don Kieffer Applies Toyota Thinking to Modern Knowledge Work
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Don Kieffer has spent more than fifty years redesigning how real work gets done. In this episode, he explains why so many improvement efforts stall—and how Dynamic Work Design offers a clearer, more practical way forward. Episode page with video, transcript, and more Don traces his path from machinist to Vice President of Operational Excellence at …
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Trailer | Inside the IISE Innovation Cup: How Bold Ideas Become Industry Breakthroughs
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Go behind the scenes of the IISE Innovation Cup, one of the most impactful showcases of industrial and systems engineering innovation. Hear from: • Tom Mazzone – Why the Cup exists • Aniket Ramekar – Gold Award winner • Rishabh Bhandawat – Silver Award winner • Bill Harrington – What judges look for Discover how teams across industries are solving …
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Stop Forcing Change: Use These Motivational Interviewing Questions Instead
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The blog post In this episode, Mark Graban explores why so many organizational change efforts stall—not because people are resistant, but because leaders rely on telling instead of asking. Drawing from his recent Lean Blog article, Mark introduces five Motivational Interviewing questions that shift conversations from compliance to genuine commitmen…
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Beyond Borders: Olga Radutsky on Safe and Smart Medical Travel
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Send us a text Olga Radutsky is a health and wellness facilitator and the founder of Estedica Global Wellness, who talks about how she connects people and companies with top medical, dental, and wellness providers around the world. She explains the benefits of medical travel, how her company ensures quality and safety, and the different programs av…
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The Double Your Value Mindset: Planning, Growth & Real Talk from the EGS Event, 497
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In this special episode of MakingChips, we broadcast from the EBITDA Growth Systems Double Your Value Planning Event—a gathering designed to pull shop owners out of the day-to-day grind and force intentional thinking about long-term growth. This year's event was hosted at the Sandvik Coromant facility in Mebane, North Carolina, creating a perfect b…
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Lean Saved Their Factory: Fire Prevention, Inventory Wins & Q4 Strategy | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E123
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It's Cyber Monday, and Andrew and Jay dive into year-end strategy, the real cost of Black Friday sales, and why deep discounts often hurt more than they help. They also discuss how lean manufacturing practices literally saved an entire 60,000 sq ft facility after a major fire. Elsewhere, Andrew shares the importance of using LinkedIn with intention…
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Send us a text December brings a rush of activity and increased stress. It's crucial to stay grounded and aware during this busy time. Managing fatigue, treating non-routine tasks with care, and clear communication are key. Preparing for seasonal pressures and prioritizing health and safety can help guard wellbeing. By focusing on presence and smal…
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