Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast

Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast offers news and information for the people who make, store and move things and those who manage and maintain the facilities where that work gets done. Manufacturers from chemical producers to automakers to machine shops can listen for critical insights into the technologies, economic conditions and best practices that can influence how to best run facilities to reach operational excellence.

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Endeavor Business Media | Thomas Wilk
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In this episode of the Great Question pod, Mike Payne of Hill Manufacturing & Fabrication shares how ERP and machine monitoring transformed the Oklahoma-based company's shop-floor...
Dec. 3, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Thomas Wilk
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Ben Wynne of Intrepid Automation helps Smart Industry's Scott Achelpohl veer from the M&A soap opera and get into the weeds about what industrial 3D printing is doing for aerospace...
Nov. 25, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Thomas Wilk
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Global industrial AI software heavyweight IFS chose its New York show to debut virtual agents equipped with 50 skills (soon to be 100-plus) that autonomously manage high-volume...
Nov. 20, 2025
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In this episode of the podcast, IndustryWeek's Laura Putre and immigration attorney Jorge Lopez explore preparing manufacturers for audits and site visits.
Sept. 30, 2025
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How can the two converge and operate in less “siloed” ways, especially to ensure cybersecurity? Scott Achelpohl of Smart Industry explores these questions with Almog Apirion, ...
Sept. 23, 2025
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From Samuel Pasquier of Cisco Systems’ Industrial IoT Connectivity Portfolio, learn about the implications of increased digitization of OT, the emerging manufacturing use cases...
Sept. 4, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Thomas Wilk
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In this episode of Great Question, Lean Driven Reliability's Joe Kuhn joins Anna Townsend, managing editor of our sister brand Plant Services, and talks about turning maintenance...
Aug. 20, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Thomas Wilk
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In this episode of Great Question, Rosemary Coates of the Reshoring Institute joins Thomas Wilk, chief of Smart Industry's sister brand Plant Services, to debate how companies...
Aug. 1, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Thomas Wilk
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Joining Smart Industry’s Scott Achelpohl for this episode is Rajeev Shah, co-founder and CEO of Celona, who helps explain how manufacturers can overcome “legacy” infrastructure...
July 29, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Thomas Wilk
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In this episode, David Brown of TE Connectivity shares lessons from implementing AI across engineering and operations.
July 17, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Thomas Wilk
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The podcast revisits additive manufacturing, this time with perspective from American Machinist’s Robert Brooks on how AM has come down from an overheated and speculative market...
July 10, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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The company’s chief engineer and transformation leader Bradly Walker joins Smart Industry’s Scott Achelpohl and IndustryWeek’s Dennis Scimeca to chat about Texas Pride’s technology...
June 24, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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In this episode of Great Question, IBM's Christine Nishimoto reveals AI’s role in building more robust, failure-aware maintenance strategies.
May 28, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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In this episode of Great Question, our editors discuss real-world applications of artificial intelligence in manufacturing and what they learned last week at Automate 2025.
May 19, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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In this episode of Great Question, two supply chain experts share how multi-sourcing strategies build resilience.
May 12, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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Mahdi Jamshid, director of market intelligence for leading AM observer Wohlers Associates, joins SI's Scott Achelpohl to detail Wohlers' recently released annual report on the...
April 29, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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In this episode, two experts from MaintainX, Nick Haase and Roshan Satish, discuss how AI can address real frustrations on the plant floor.
April 25, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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In this episode of Great Question, Francisco Almada Lobo, CEO of Critical Manufacturing and an Industry 4.0 evangelist, educator, and author, joins Smart Industry's Scott Achelpohl...
March 31, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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In this episode of Great Question, The Humanity Studio's Christie Smith examines why DEI is critical for business growth and employee engagement.
March 19, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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In this episode, our trio of experts say the challenge in continuous improvement is not just finding solutions but learning and adapting from every experience.
March 12, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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Steve Strong of Concept Systems and Benjamin Kurth of Applied Manufacturing Technologies join the podcast and Smart Industry's Scott Achelpohl to talk automation and why “easier...
March 6, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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In this new episode of Great Question, manufacturers can learn how to manage and protect their data, especially under threat of growing cybersecurity risks.
March 5, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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From their (R)Evolutionizing Manufacturing program, Smart Industry's Scott Achelpohl and Industry 4.0 enthusiast Jeff Winter get back into what's practical in your factory floor...
Feb. 26, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Alexis Gajewski
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From AI, to cybersecurity, to decentralizing utility grids, Smart Industry's Scott Achelpohl breaks down highlights from the monthlong web series that SI debuted to start the ...
Feb. 3, 2025