The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
- No. of episodes
- 97
- Latest episode
- 2026-07-06
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Manufacturing is the physical engine of the global economy, yet most business coverage ignores its day-to-day realities. In each episode, Lucas and Luna walk the factory floor — metaphorically and sometimes literally — to examine how goods are made, moved, and improved. They analyze production data from the Institute for Supply Management and the Federal Reserve's industrial production index, discuss real bottlenecks at ports and chip fabs, and explore how tier-one suppliers are automating quality checks. Lucas brings the journalistic rigor of someone who has toured plants from Shenzhen to Stuttgart; Luna challenges every assumption with questions about labor, capital expenditure, and lead times. Together they dissect phenomena like reshoring trends in the battery industry, lean manufacturing at Toyota's Georgetown plant, and the economics of 3D printing in aerospace. No hype about 'Industry 4.0' — just clear explanations of what makes a factory profitable, a supply chain resilient, and a production manager's job harder than ever. If you work in operations, procurement, or industrial strategy, these conversations will give you better questions to ask your own plant manager. What does a 0.5% yield improvement mean for a $2 billion semiconductor fab — and who gets the savings?#Manufacturing #SupplyChain #IndustrialBusiness #FactoryFloor #LeanManufacturing #Reshoring #Automation #ProductionData #ISM #FederalReserve #SemiconductorManufacturing #3DPrinting #ToyotaProductionSystem #BatterySupplyChain #OperationsManagement #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcastKeep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo