Lew Weiss and Tim Grady welcome Mike Franz, CEO and founder of ManufacturingPower.com, a database provider of competitive MRO information from participating companies who anonymously share detailed purchasing data and can directly benefit from that shared data to save money operating and supporting their business.
Mark Steffens, CEO of Airline Hydraulics, a value-added distributor of fluid power, automation, and machine safeguarding products from leading manufacturers joins hosts Lew Wiess and Tim to discuss reopening businesses and safe guard systems.
In this episode of ‘Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture’, host Cliff Waldman reviews the April data on US retail sales as well as the April manufacturing report from the Institute for Supply Management and the April industrial production report from the Federal Reserve. Against the backdrop of these data, which portray a US manufacturing sector that has been pushed into historic contraction by the pandemic, Cliff concludes the episode by identifying four industry sectors that could potentially lead manufacturing back to growth.
Norbert Ore, Senior Correspondent for Manufacturing Talk Radio, shares his report from Strategas Research Partners, a leading institutional broker-dealer focused on investment and sector strategy, macro-economics, policy research, and technical data, on the movement of supply chain numbers in a COVID-stricken economy, and what may come back before other manufacturing or non-manufacturing sectors.
Jack Siney is the CoFounder of two businesses to sell to the government and the recent launch of GovQuote.us, a free platform to simplify how procurement companies can sell to the government, along with free videos to help you close deals.
Eric Faucette and Stuart Faris discuss How Novus Labs helps companies and individuals develop and/or debug the concepts, software, or products through concept analysis, in-depth testing, reworking and eventual proof of concept, software, finished parts, or operable machines. There is more here to hear than you can imagine.
The April jobs report shows labor market conditions that nobody alive today has ever seen before. Cliff Waldman, National Economists Club Board of Governors Chair, CEO of New World Economics and Host of Manufacturing Matters reviews the report and its implications for the economy as a whole, for the manufacturing sector, and for key manufacturing subsectors. Don’t miss this historic report, brought to you by Manufacturing Talk Radio.
It is impossible to predict what the economic recovery will look like, and even dour indicators don't give a great indication of the future. But, listen to this Credit Manager's Index report and Dr. Kuehl's comment on the economy.
