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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Relay co-founder and CEO Chris Chuang joins the pod to delve into another corner of artificial intelligence in manufacturing: How voice is being turned into data, ending the disconnect...
Feb. 20, 2026
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Smart Industry content chief Scott Achelpohl wraps up the annual prediction series with highlights from our roster of subject-matter experts, who had a lot to say about how AI...
Jan. 13, 2026
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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
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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
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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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Trae Mazza and his team at RMC Global found and reported hidden cyber weaknesses in common Siemens industrial networking devices. Mazza wrote this month for Smart Industry about...
Oct. 28, 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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In this episode of Great Question, Smart Industry's Robert Schoenberger and fellow editors discuss the game-changing events that have shaped manufacturing since 2000.
Sept. 17, 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
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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
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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