Podcast
Manufacturing Meetup
Your place for real talk about working efficiently and kicking back on your downtime. Pull up a chair and join manufacturing veterans Ed Ballina and Alvaro Cuba as they break down factory life.
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Episode 36Why Cutting Maintenance Costs Backfires
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Episode 352025 Scorecard & 2026 Outlook
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Episode 34The Future of Factory Work: Skills-Based Flexible Scheduling
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Episode 33Firefighting: The Reactive Maintenance Trap
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Episode 32Manufacturing Career Growth: Supervisor or Specialist?
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Episode 31Machine Health Q&A: Prevention Beats Repair
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Episode 30Manufacturing AI: From KPIs to 310% ROI
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Episode 29Stop Managing Tasks, Start Leading People
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Episode 28The Innovation Mentality for Manufacturing
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Episode 27Manufacturing 201: Next-Level Skills
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Episode 26Manufacturing 101: Essential Shop Floor Skills
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Episode 25Can U.S. Manufacturing Compete? 3 Surprising Truths
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Episode 2485% of Manufacturers Double Down on AI
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Episode 23Safety Secrets Every Plant Manager Needs
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Episode 22Marines to Manufacturing: Military Skills That Fill the Labor Gap
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Episode 21Why Your AI Gains Disappear
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Episode 20Best Root Cause Analysis Methods?
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Episode 19Manufacturing: Perception vs. Reality
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Episode 18Surviving Tariff Chaos: Manufacturing Strategies That Actually Work
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Episode 175 Things to Check Before Rolling Out Manufacturing AI
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Episode 16AI-Powered Predictive Maintenance Success
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Episode 15Manufacturing Needs Women
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Episode 14Best of 2024 (with Bonus Content)
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Episode 132024 Trends, 2025 Predictions
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Episode 12Ask Me Anything: AI, Crazy Machine Fixes, and Mentorship
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Episode 11AI and the New Era of Manufacturing
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Episode 10Hispanic Heritage Month: Interviewing Latino Manufacturing Role Models
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Episode 9AMA: Pilot Purgatory, Crazy Root Causes, and More
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Episode 8Zero Waste, TPM, and 5S
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Episode 7AMA: Machine health savings and career tips
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Episode 6Operational Excellence, Part 3: AM/PM and Focus Improvement
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Episode 5AMA: GenAI & How to Avoid Machine Health Mistakes
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Episode 4Operational Excellence, Part 2: People & Quality
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Episode 3AMA: Core skills, 4.0 tech for M&R, and precision maintenance
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Breaking down the alphabet soup of operational excellence
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AMA: The best training courses and must have tools for the shop floor
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The rise of “new-collar” jobs and top plant tour tips
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AMA: Best Vibration Analysis Setup?
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Tackling Turnover with Tech and Training
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Welcome to the Manufacturing Meet Up Podcast