Modernize or Close Your Doors (with Cole Studer) | ReForge 026
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ talk with Cole Studer (CTO at Miltech Manufacturing and CEO at Mericron) about what it actually takes to modernize a rural American machine shop, and why the same person rebuilding that shop floor is also building Mericron, an American chipset meant to replace the Chinese one most of our automation quietly runs on.
If you care about manufacturing, automation, workforce, supply chain, and reshoring, this one is for you.
What we cover
Modernizing a job shop in rural western Kansas
Machinists as the real growth constraint
Paying city wages in a small…
The skinny
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