Your Scrap (and Sludge) Is Worth Way More Than You’re Getting, with Kazu Nishioka-EP 277
My machinery customers talk about their chips all the time. Spinners, briquetters, getting the oil out so they can sell it. But the scrap yard still doesn’t care what grade it is. It pays them very little for steel scrap and nothing for sludge from grinding operations. Kazuhiko Nishioka, co-founder

Ceiling of Complexity
I took a quarterly seminar many years ago taught by Dan Sullivan. It was aimed at entrepreneurs and focused on how you could grow your

The Hole in China’s Apple
A tiny gecko can literally climb up sheer glass. A team of robotics geeks in Denmark thought, wouldn’t it be cool if we could mimic

Legalize Pot, Why?
The big push is on all over the country to legalize recreational marijuana. My gut reaction is that I am appalled, but I’ve been reading

Ep. 25 – Brett May on Keeping Cam Screw Machines Relevant
We interviewed Brett May of BME Inc. Screw Machine Attachments for today’s podcast. Brett’s mission in business is to make old cam multi-spindle screw machines

Can a Machine Sniff the Market?
I am not a big stock trader, but I have a portfolio of stocks in my IRA, which is a backstop for the volatility of

Ep. 24 – Albert Lettman on Lean Manufacturing Around the Globe
On today’s podcast, I interviewed Albert Lettmen, a Lean Six Sigma and Quality Systems consultant and educator who has worked for decades with prominent manufacturing

