The Manufacture Houston Podcast: Recent Episodes
Alchemy Industrial
The re-shoring wave is beginning to lap US shores and most likely will build as more manufacturers de-globalize and bring manufacturing back home. Consider identifying pools of talent, a culture and environment, and a continuously evolving talent strategy.
Summary: In this episode of The Manufacture Houston Podcast, Mush talks about the three areas that drive friction for your customers and for your business. Making improvements in any (or all) of these areas can improve the customer experience, reduce costs, and increase speed to delivery.
In this episode, Mush talks about how the world is continuing to evolve in a way that is valuing creators. He also talks about what that means for companies.
In this episode, Mush talks about how every business has an opportunity to create real value for its customers by reducing friction. Friction includes all the things that make it harder, slower, or messier for customers to do business with us.
We follow a simple three-step process when we begin to develop a manufacturing strategy for a new customer. Start by assessing the market positioning for the client’s product, then identify the winning attributes of the product, and finally, give a high-level consideration to engineering and manufacturing.
Your goal is not to compete. Ever. Your goal is to create a company with zero competitors in a market worth growing in.
- This is hand-to-hand combat.
- If you can’t get to $ 1 million in 18-24 months, the risk of failure goes up.
- It is hard to build a company with revenue sustainably below $ 1 million.
In this episode of the Manufacture Houston Podcast, Mush Khan talks about the overall concept of reshoring, considerations, decisions, and steps to make re-shoring a reality.
In today’s episode of The Manufacture Houston Podcast, we talk to Brian Laney who is the VP of Sales and Product at Alert Tech SMT a family-owned and run business based in the Houston area. Brian is the son of founder Marge Laney.
Brian takes us through the journey the family took to transform Alert Tech as it navigated the impact of the global pandemic.
In today’s episode of The Manufacture Houston Podcast, we talk to Dan Allford President of Arc Specialties. Dan takes us through a four decades-long journey from his first robotic project to now leading one of the leading robotic companies in the world.
In today’s episode of The Manufacture Houston Podcast, we talk to Mark Gittleman President & CEO at Aegis Aerospace Inc. Mark describes his journey from being a deep sea diver and oil & gas leader to the CEO of an aerospace company. We also talk about the state of aerospace manufacturing in the Houston area and what the future holds.
In today’s episode of The Manufacture Houston Podcast, we talk to Harry Moser with The Reshoring Initiative. Harry takes us through the building momentum behind re-shoring manufacturing back to the US and the positive impact on job growth.
Harry is an Inductee to Industry Week's Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2010 for service to the industry via the Reshoring Initiative and skilled workforce development. He developed the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Estimator, used by thousands to reevaluate offshoring decisions.
In this episode of the Manufacture Houston Podcast, Mush Khan speaks a dynamic group of founders who are part of the Rice University Clean Tech Accelerator. This group of founders are working on ideas and businesses that commercializing various clean technologies.
In this episode, Mush gives his thoughts on the most important challenge to take on in order to localize manufacturing.
In today’s episode of The Manufacture Houston Podcast, we talk to Lance Douglas with Olympus Controls. This episode focuses on how industrial Automation is transforming manufacturing.
We hear Lance’s unique perspective on how to find opportunities to automate by focusing on three areas: dull, dirty and dangerous work and how this approach is unlikely to replace humans in manufacturing any time soon.
In today’s episode of The Manufacture Houston Podcast, we talk to David Reid who is the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Marketing Officer with NOV. David is a business and technology leader with a proven record of eliminating large corporate inefficiencies & building effective, dynamic, communities that deliver the impossible.
In this episode, we talk with David about his career from an architect in Aberdeen to leading technology and marketing for one the world’s leading energy equipment companies. We hear his thoughts on what it takes to create and foster a culture of innovation and good work.
In today’s episode of The Manufacture Houston Podcast, we talk to Chris Church with MacroFab. MacroFab brings together the best factories in North America and production expertise for a better, more transparent manufacturing experience.
In today’s episode of The Manufacture Houston Podcast, we meet the team behind the new East End Maker Hub. The East End’s industrial makerspace and manufacturing center is home to Houston’s top fabricators, manufacturers, crafters and innovators. Our anchor tenant TXRX Labs is helping us create grassroots innovation and a collaborative, diverse community of makers and problem solvers.
We have three guests in this episode:
Roland Von Kurnatowski, Founder and President of TXRX Labs
Mike Pittman, II, Vice President of Real Estate at UP Community Development Corporation
Patrick Ezzell, President & CEO at UP Community Development Corporation
In today’s episode of the Manufacture Houston Podcast, we talk to Alessio Larusso, the founder and CEO of Roboze, an Italian 3D printing company that has recently located to Houston. Alessio takes us through his journey from his father’s machine shop to creating one of the world’s most progressive 3D printing companies.
Roboze is re-shaping the manufacturing industry and revolutionizing the world of 3D Printing with the most precise technology, capable of processing super polymers and composite materials for the realization of finished functional parts to be used in the most extreme conditions and sectors.
Today’s episode features Rick Perez who is the Founder, President/CEO at Avangard Innovative. Rick’s journey started at his parents’ dinner table in Katy, TX about 30 years ago when he launched Avangard. Over the past three decades, Rick has built his company into one of the world’s leading sustainability companies that transforms various kinds of plastic waste into commercial products.
In today’s episode, we talk to George Danner) who is the Chief Scientist at Valedor Partners. George walks us through the fascinating world of using practical mathematical models to make fundamental and dramatic improvements to manufacturing operations in order to meet changing market demands and create ESG improvements.
George Danner with Valedor Partners is the founder and CEO of Business Laboratory. He is the author of books about business problem solving and automation and specializes in the application of agent-based simulation modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, System Dynamics, Game Theory, Visualization, and Real Options to some of the world’s most difficult and complex business strategy problems.
George has nearly 30 years of experience in corporate strategy, specifically operational and financial analysis, across a wide variety of industries ranging from manufacturing, energy, telecommunications, transportation, and financial services/venture capital. Prior to founding Business Laboratory, George held executive positions at nGenera Corporation and Arthur Andersen. He holds a BS from Texas A&M University and an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In today’s episode, we speak with Dale Winger, Managing Director and Scott Gale, Executive Director of Halliburton Labs. Halliburton Labs has a unique “scalarator” program that is helping a variety of companies meet the challenges of cleaner, more affordable energy.
For decades, Halliburton has scaled engineered solutions for the global energy industry. Simply put, we know that energy requires scale. We recognize that a clean energy future requires many new innovations at scale. That is why we are helping entrepreneurs solve the scientific, technical, and logistical challenges to drive cleaner, affordable energy in the 21st century.
If you have been working on disruptive technology and are nearly market ready, funded (or fundraising), and have a strong team, we want to hear from you! See if you fit within one of the challenge areas we have identified.
Today’s guest is Harvin Moore who leads the team at Houston Exponential (HX). HX is Houston’s leading non-profit innovation catalyst and it brings together companies, organizations and people to accelerate growth in Houston.
Harvin Moore, President and CEO of Houston Exponential
https://www.linkedin.com/in/harvinmoore/
https://houstonexponential.org/
Houston Exponential (HX) is a non-profit organization created to accelerate the growth of Houston’s innovation ecosystem. We believe Houston is where the world will come to solve problems that matter. HX is leading the charge to turn Houston into a hub for high-growth high-potential companies by creating pathways for innovation to flow at scale. We are aligning ecosystem support around strategic initiatives that are connecting, attracting, and promoting startups, investors, corporations, government, and universities.
In this episode, we meet Anne Whitlock and Lauren Caldarera who helped create the Sewn Goods Collaborative, a group of immigrants who turned the need for face masks during the pandemic into a growing business in Houston.
Connect Community:
Connect Community is a place-based non-profit that takes a holistic approach to community development in the Gulfton/Sharpstown neighborhood of Houston, TX. Serving a majority immigrant and refugee population, Connect Community works alongside residents, best-in-class partners and local stakeholders, to amplify voices, spark innovation, obtain resources, and accelerate human potential.
Sewn Goods:
Sewn Goods is a collective of small batch manufacturers, non-profits, educational institutions and local sewists that came together in the wake of a pandemic to address a public health crisis. Sewn Goods members pivoted from their traditional product Iines and, with the help of local talent, produced over 70,000 masks to keep neighbors, frontline and healthcare workers safe with high quality reusable cloth masks.
Since then, the need for locally made sewn goods has increased. Sewn Goods is now investing in the upskilling and training of local talent and working with several small batch manufacturers to meet the needs of a growing soft goods market in Houston.
In this episode, Alchemy CEO and co-founder, Mush Khan talks about his journey and his reason for building a manufacturing business.