Manufacturing Insights Podcast | aPriori

Technology for Smarter Sourcing Decisions

Leah Archibald — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:47:42 +0000

How can manufacturers balance costs, delivery, and quality when choosing suppliers? And where can they get the real-time data they need to know whether those suppliers will actually deliver? Jody Markopoulos has spent over 30 years leading operations teams across multiple industrial sectors. In this conversation, she explains how to give sourcing and procurement the technical insight they need to ...

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Podcast: Getting Cost Right the First Time

Leah Archibald — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:24:09 +0000

Sam Freesemeyer is an agricultural engineering executive with more than 40 years of experience in machinery design and product management. In this podcast, he explains why so many engineering teams end up reworking designs late in the process—and how integrating cost assessment into every stage of product development helps teams get to market faster without sacrificing the features that make ...

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Accelerating Product Design with AI

Leah Archibald — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:10:10 +0000

Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Speed in Product Development How can companies today keep up with the need for fast product redesign life cycles and increasing pressures from competitors? Craig Melrose has spent over 30 years in operations, consulting with organizations such as McKinsey, to help companies drive business results through improvements in manufacturing, product development, and supply chain. He begins ...

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The Need for Speed

Leah Archibald — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:53:18 +0000

The Manufacturing Metamorphosis: How Digitalization and AI Are Transforming Product Development The manufacturing industry is undergoing a historic metamorphosis. What began with digital transformation is now accelerating through artificial intelligence. And it’s happening at exactly the right time. Over the next five years, McKinsey estimates that $30 trillion in corporate revenue will depend on products that haven’t yet reached the ...

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Maximizing the Value of Your Manufacturing Data with AI

Leah Archibald — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:47:57 +0000

Artificial intelligence promises huge gains in insights and productivity. But your manufacturing data is your company’s gold, and you may be skeptical about trusting AI with this valuable asset. To move forward, you need a data platform that ensures you get all the value from your data while keeping your competitive advantage secure. In this episode of the podcast, a ...

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Selling Sustainability Means Margin AND Mission

Leah Archibald — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 02:47:09 +0000

For many manufacturers today, carbon neutrality is a stretch goal, but some have stretched beyond that benchmark to call their products carbon negative. How is this level of sustainability even possible, and how can it be scalable across a worldwide distribution network? My guest today is Josh Dorfman. He’s the co-founder of Plantd, which makes carbon-negative building products and pushes ...

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AI for Profitable Sustainability

Leah Archibald — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:14:39 +0000

For many manufacturing companies, the twin goals of improving profit margins and increasing sustainability have been at odds. But could AI technology change all that? My guest today is Berk Birand, the CEO of Fero Labs, which focuses on achieving profitable sustainability with the help of AI. I’m going to ask him today to untangle the mess of conflicting priorities ...

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Forging: What’s Ahead for an Industry Being Transformed?

Leah Archibald — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:53:30 +0000

Forging is one of the oldest manufacturing processes in human history. With 3,000 years of experience shaping metal into durable goods, forgers might be seen as set in their ways, and yet the industry is rapidly changing today due to market pressures for new materials, faster turnover, and agile product development. Our guest today is an expert in forging, and ...

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Should Cost Panel

Leah Archibald — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:18:55 +0000

How to Turn Cost Data into Business Impact Should-cost models have been around for a while, but only a handful of manufacturers have figured out how to use them as tools for collaboration rather than contention with suppliers. Even fewer have figured out how to get engineering, procurement, and suppliers to agree on accurate should cost numbers. So, what makes ...

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Database Technology to Improve Financial KPIs

Leah Archibald — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:37:37 +0000

When it comes to systems of data capture and analytics, most analysts give the manufacturing industry poor performance scores. Sme say that manufacturing lags 5, 10, or even 20 years behind other industries when it comes to the effective use of data and database infrastructure. What can manufacturing do to close the gap? And how can better use of data ...

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How Will Tariffs Change Your Supply Chain?

Leah Archibald — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:59:16 +0000

Given the tariffs announced last week, it’s unlikely that any supply chain moving forward in 2025 will look like it did in 2024. The question is: how will tariffs impact your supply chain? To help us make sense of this information, today’s podcast features an expert who has his ear to the ground when it comes to supply chain challenges ...

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Mitigating the Impact of Tariffs – Your Questions Answered

Leah Archibald — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:30:54 +0000

Everyone in sourcing, procurement, and manufacturing has questions about tariffs. Not only will they impact my bottom line, but how do I know which of my products are impacted? And how do I make the right decisions about my supply chain with the minimum amount of disruption and the best chance of resilience in the future? Today, two experts will ...

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