Michael Cromheecke, Founder and CEO of SteamChain, a Machine as a Service business is in a new space where manufacturers may not need to own and maintain machines to produce their products and services.
Norbert Ore, Director of Industry surveys for Strategas Securities LLP discusses purchasing conditions in Europe, Asia, South America, and areas of the U.S. that reflect a fairly positive restart, at least for the U.S. economy.
In this episode of ‘Cliff Notes on the Global Manufacturing Picture’ host Cliff Waldman continues tracking the path of U.S. manufacturing recovery from the pandemic-induced contraction. He puts the recovery challenge in perspective by reviewing the report on second quarter U.S. GDP which shows the sharpest U. S. economic contraction of the post World War II era. Cliff then reviews July data on retail sales as well as the July manufacturing survey report from the Institute for Supply Management, the July industrial production report and the July reading on job growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector. He concludes with a discussion of the manufacturing outlook risks that arise from a global resurgence of the coronavirus and the failure of the U.S. government to pass an extension of federal fiscal stimulus.
Bill Berutti, CEO of Plex, a software platform for smart manufacturing, discusses why manufacturers needs to transform their production from 20th Century methods to 21st Century Smart Manufacturing systems.
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Dr. Chris Kuehl, economist with Armada Corporate Intelligence, discusses the NACM Credit Managers Index favorable and unfavorable numbers, and how the economy is reacting to the restart – at this moment in time, what does the recovery look like for 2020.
Roger Sands, CEO, and Co-Founder of Wyebot, discusses the WiFi Intelligence Platform from Wyebot for companies of all sizes that provides diagnostic data for manufacturers to improve all aspects of their Wifi throughput so operations run more efficiently, and thus, more profitably.
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