Manufacturing Happy Hour

Est. audience

4,500

Apple rating

4.9 from 108

Cadence

Weekly

Latest

2026-10-27

By

Chris Luecke

Based on

12 recent episodes

• Covers: Modern manufacturing trends, industrial AI, hardtech startup scaling, factory workforce development, and predictive maintenance strategies.
• For: Manufacturing leaders, plant operators, hardtech founders, and industrial engineers.
• Best for: Industrial executives looking for tactics to modernize plants and scale operations.
• Skip if: General consumers and software professionals outside the industrial and manufacturing sectors.

Start with

• 308: From Prototype to Production: Inside Chicago’s Hardtech Innovation Engine with mHUB's Bill Fienup and Kim Blomquist: How hardtech startups successfully transition from initial prototypes into scaled manufacturing production.
• 306: From Systems of Record to Systems of Action: Putting AI to Work in Manufacturing with Sanjay Brahmawar: How to deploy artificial intelligence to address labor shortages and improve plant productivity.
• BONUS: Predictive Maintenance: The Key to Replacing Unplanned Downtime with Personal Downtime (Sponsored by AssetWatch): How to use condition monitoring and predictive maintenance to reduce costly factory downtime.

Sponsors seen

• CliftonLarsonAllenSponsor

  CliftonLarsonAllen , sponsor of the All-American Manufacturing Summer Tour, offering industry-focused wealth advisory, outsourcing, audit, tax, and consulting services.

  301: NYC's Role in Reindustrialization and American Manufacturing (LIVE from Brooklyn) · 2026-09-08
• MaintainXSponsor

  MaintainX, sponsor of the tour, helping frontline teams streamline maintenance, standard operating procedures, and more from a mobile device.

  301: NYC's Role in Reindustrialization and American Manufacturing (LIVE from Brooklyn) · 2026-09-08

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