Automation, AI, and the American Worker. Conversations with the leaders reindustrializing America. 🇺🇸 Hosted by @MatthewChang and @ThaaatColin
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In advanced manufacturing the technology moves faster than the training does. You teach someone to fish this year, then next year the job is deer hunting, and the year after that it's trapping shellfish. Start with the why skills instead. The basic factory behaviors, the terminology, what needs attention. Hard skills layer onto that. (EP 027)
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New episode! Will Alverson of Accurate Metal Products on why hard-skills training breaks when the technology changes every year, what to say when a competitor threatens to poach your machinists, and why customer mix is the thing that keeps you alive. (EP 027) @will_alverson
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The ReForge Podcast - Ep. 035: Reindustrialization News Rundown with Matt (@MatthewChang ) and Colin (@ThaaatColin) nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1RKjpbezV…
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"I'm using a Chinese chip with a French radio because that's the best that there is." — Cole Studer (@photoncmndr), EP 026
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Being in the defense industrial base is a real tax on automation. A lot of shop software puts you in violation if you run it in default mode, so you either pay for the compliant version or write your own modules and host it on your own server. A non ITAR shop just installs the thing. (EP 026)
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The ReForge Podcast - Ep. 034: Guest Brad Barbin (@barbinbrad) Joins Matt (@MatthewChang ) and Colin (@ThaaatColin) nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1AGRnZVzD…
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The work is out there. What's scarce is the people to do it. Growth at a rural shop gets capped by how many machinists you can hire, and every time a trained one leaves you're starting over at the base level with the next two. (EP 026)
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"When you're a general job shop, you have to modernize or you're going to close your doors." — Cole Studer (@photoncmndr), EP 026
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Most IoT and automation projects run on a Chinese chip. Cole Studer (@photoncmndr) got tired of that, so he's building an American one, while also modernizing a CNC shop in rural Kansas that builds for aerospace and defense.
EP 026 is live.
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Most shops aren't at zero visibility. They're at full OEE tracking on their two newest machines and zero on the other 28. The old iron is where the gap lives, and it's the part nobody sells a solution for. (EP 025)
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"Does it vibrate and does it pull power? Those are the two questions I ask." Daniel Scott Mitchell, EP 025
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The ReForge Podcast - Ep. 033: The AI Hype Around Manufacturing & Engineering nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1yxBePBDg…
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98% of US factories have fewer than 500 employees. Look for that split anywhere else and you won't find it. Most of the world runs on large corporations, state subsidies, or regulations that make a small shop impossible. That ecosystem is worth protecting. (EP 025)
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"If you wanna save the middle class, you gotta save this mom-and-pop machine shops." Daniel Scott Mitchell, EP 025
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When Takton went looking for what to build, they looked for physical duct tape on the shop floor. A Ring camera taped inside a machine. A baby monitor. Duct tape means someone had a problem bad enough to stop and fix it, and the fix isn't permanent. That's a product. (EP 025)
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The ReForge Podcast - Ep. 032: Matt & Colin Talk Robots nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1AJEmvMld…
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The Great Lakes still have the water, the natural gas, and proximity to most of North America's population. They also have houses people can afford. A 26 year old on the shop floor at HFW Industries bought his before the fourth generation owner bought his. EP 024
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You can't expect people to come work for you if they have no idea you exist. Heavy industry in America has done a very poor job of showing what's behind the walls. People who live in the neighborhood tour the shop and say they had no idea what was back here. — Jack Watson, EP 024
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An OEM part in an abrasive rolling application can wear out in four months. Coat it properly and the same part runs two years. That's not a maintenance line item. That's the difference between a plant that runs and a plant that's constantly torn down. EP 024
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