Swarfcast Ep. 32 – Work Less and Do More, with Ari Meisel
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Swarfcast Ep. 31 – Ken Mandile, Employees Are Buying His Business
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On today’s podcast we interviewed Ken Mandile, founder of Swissturn, a successful CNC Swiss machine shop in Oxford, Massachusetts. Ken’s children are not interested in taking over Swissturn when he eventually retires, so five years ago Ken began restructuring his company into …
Swarfcast Ep. 30 – Developing a Machining Culture with Victor and Betty DaCruz
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On today’s podcast, we interviewed Victor and Betty DaCruz, owners of DaCruz Manufacturing in Bristol, Connecticut. Victor and Betty have transformed their company over the last three decades from a multi-spindle screw machine shop with ACMEs and New Britains into a high-tech CNC …
Swarfcast Ep. 29 – Mark Fordyce, Hydromat Maestro
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On today’s podcast, we interviewed Mark Fordyce, Team Leader of the Hydromat Parts & Rebuild department at Component Bar Products in St. Louis. Mark is a Hydromat Maestro. He has been working with rotary transfer machines for over 40 years, first as a self-taught setup man in …
Swarfcast Ep. 28 – Bryan Batten, Mechanical Psychologist
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On today’s podcast, I interviewed Bryan Batten, CEO of Palmetto Precision Machining, located in Anderson, South Carolina. Palmetto Machining is a precision machining/fabrication shop specializing in tooling and automation for the automotive industry. Bryan, who jokingly refers to …
Swarfcast Ep. 27 – Dave Thuro on Growing a Machining Business (Part 2)
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Today’s podcast is Part 2 of our interview with Dave Thuro, second-generation owner of Thuro Metal Products. In this episode, Dave discusses his growth philosophies. He believes in aggressively acquiring as many job opportunities as possible, but then saying no to most of them. …
Swarfcast Ep. 26 – Dave Thuro on Growing a Machining Business (Part 1)
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Today’s podcast is part one of a two-part interview with Dave Thuro, second-generation owner of Thuro Metal Products, a successful job shop in Long Island, New York. The business produces parts for a variety of industries, including aerospace, fuel injectors, HVAC, bearing and linear …
Swarfcast Ep. 25 – Brett May on Keeping Cam Screw Machines Relevant
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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 like National Acmes, Wickmans, and New Britains into productive money makers in today’s competitive machining environment. …
Swarfcast Ep. 24 – Albert Lettman on Lean Manufacturing Around the Globe
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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 companies around the world. Albert grew up in Jamaica, studied business in Scotland, and then worked for companies …
Swarfcast Ep. 23 – Reflections on the Machining Business 2018
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In today’s podcast, we reflect on the machining world in 2018 through the lens of what went right and what went wrong for Graff-Pinkert’s used machine tool business and Today’s Machining World. Scroll down to listen to the podcast. One key observation from 2018 is that Graff-Pinkert …
Swarfcast Ep. 22 – Federico Veneziano on Machining Business Around the World
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Scroll down to listen to the podcast with Federico Veneziano. On today’s podcast we interviewed Federico Veneziano, COO and CFO of American Micro, a 100 person machining company near Cincinnati, Ohio. In the interview Federico compared the various philosophies he has observed in …
Swarfcast Ep. 21 – John Saunders, Entrepreneur and Self-taught Machinist
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Scroll down to listen to the podcast with John Saunders. In today’s podcast we interviewed John Saunders, founder of Saunders Machine Works and the creator of the NYC CNC YouTube channel. John is an innovative entrepreneur who lives and breaths CNC machining. When he was 24 he had …
Swarfcast Ep. 20 – Scott Roy on Machines that will Think Like Humans
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In today’s podcast we interviewed Scott Roy, a Senior Staff Engineer at Google who specializes in artificial intelligence. He also happens to be my brother-in-law (Lloyd’s son-in-law). One of Scott’s most recent projects at Google is to improve the way machines communicate …
Swarfcast Ep. 19 – Rick Rickerson on Educating Engineers to Understand Machining
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Scroll down to listen to the podcast with Rick Rickerson. Rick Rickerson is in charge of the machining lab at Purdue’s Northwest Indiana campus in Hammond. In today’s podcast he talks about why he loves his job. “It’s all about students” he says. His passion for teaching …
Swarfcast Ep. 18 – Jerry Levine on Why Global Warming is Not a Problem
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Scroll down to listen to the podcast with Jerry Levine. In today’s podcast we interviewed Jerry Levine. A chemical engineer, Jerry Levine’s working career stretched from polyester to politics. He led the team at Amoco Chemicals that conquered the production problems in making …
Swarfcast Ep. 17 – Making it in America with Armand Barnils
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Scroll down to listen to the podcast with Armand Barnils. In today’s podcast we interviewed Armand Barnils, plant manager of the U.S. division of Ventura Precision Components, a multinational precision machining company headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. Armand grew up on the outskirts …
Swarfcast Ep. 16 – Bill Cox on the Evolution of a Machining Business
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Scroll down to listen to the podcast with Bill Cox. In today’s podcast we interviewed Bill Cox, owner of Cox Manufacturing in San Antonio, Texas, a job shop that makes parts for a variety of industries—oil and energy, medical, and defense to name a few. Bill’s father started …
Swarfcast Ep. 15 – George Breiwa on Machining Vaporizers
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Scroll down to listen to the podcast with George Breiwa. About two months ago I got a call from a company asking for a price on a Traub TNL18 on our Graff-Pinkert Website. For those unfamiliar, Traub makes arguably the heaviest, most expensive and advanced CNC Swiss machines on the …
Swarfcast Ep. 14 – Scott Livingston on Combining Cycling and Citizens in His Machining Business
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Scroll down to listen to the podcast with Scott Livingston. Scott Livingston’s Grandfather Horst, after whom Horst Engineering Company in Connecticut was named, often talked about bicycles with Scott during his childhood. Cycling was part of Horst’s life in Germany before he …
Swarfcast Ep. 13 – Jason Zenger on “Making Chips” and the Industrial Supplies Business
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Scroll down to listen to the podcast with Jason Zenger. In today’s podcast I interviewed Jason Zenger, president of Zenger’s Industrial Supply, in Melrose Park, Illinois, a company that specializes in selling tooling and industrial supplies to the metal working industry. Jason …
Swarfcast Ep. 33 - Aneesa Muthana, the Success of a Woman in the Machining Business
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By Noah and Lloyd Graff
