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The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
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…
Episodes
The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial BusinessHow a German Factory Uses AI to Predict Machine Failures Before They Happen
In Episode 50 of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, where a mid-sized automotive supplier has deployed a…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Canadian Factory Makes Jet Fuel from Wood Waste
Lucas and Luna travel to Prince George, British Columbia, to explore a wood-waste-to-jet-fuel plant that’s finally operational after a decade of R&D. The…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Japanese Factory Turns Rice Husks into Car Parts
Episode 48 of The Manufacturing Podcast takes you inside a Japanese factory that is turning agricultural waste — specifically rice husks — into lightweight…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a British Factory Makes Hydrogen from Whisky Waste
In this episode, we explore how a distillery in Scotland partnered with an engineering firm to turn whisky production residue — pot ale and spent grain — into…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Vietnamese Factory Uses Drones to Plant Mangroves
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a factory in the Mekong Delta is using drone technology to restore mangroves at scale…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Vietnamese Factory Uses Drones to Plant Mangroves
Episode 45 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits a factory in Vietnam's Mekong Delta that pivoted from producing disposable chopsticks to manufacturing…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Danish Factory Uses AI to Sort Plastic Waste
Lucas and Luna visit a Danish factory that uses artificial intelligence and hyperspectral cameras to sort plastic waste with 95 percent purity. The episode…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Mexican Factory Makes Car Dashboards from Agave Waste
Lucas and Luna travel to Jalisco, Mexico, where a factory owned by a major automotive supplier is turning agave fibres left over from tequila production into…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Factory in Kenya Uses Solar Microgrids to Cut Energy Costs by 40 Percent
In this episode, Lucas and Luna travel to Naivasha, Kenya, to explore how a cut-flower exporter swapped diesel generators for a solar-plus-battery microgrid…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a South African Factory Turned Sewage into Clean Water
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna visit a factory outside Johannesburg that has solved one of manufacturing's most intractable…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How an Indian Factory Makes Biofuel from Rice Straw Smog
Every November, farmers in northern India burn millions of tons of rice straw, creating a toxic smog that chokes Delhi. But a startup called Takachar has built…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Danish Factory Uses Waste Bread to Make Biofuels
Episode 39 of The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo takes us to a factory in Copenhagen that turns stale bread and bakery waste into cellulosic ethanol. Lucas…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Finnish Factory Uses Geothermal Heat to Cut Energy Costs
In this episode, Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Finland that has integrated geothermal heat pumps to slash natural gas use by 80 percent. They walk through…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Dutch Factory Uses Underwater Drones to Inspect Offshore Wind Turbines
Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a Dutch factory that pivoted from building harbor cranes to manufacturing underwater inspection drones for offshore wind…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a French Factory Makes Jet Engines from Recycled Scrap
Lucas and Luna visit Safran's plant in western France, where they're forging turbine blades from 95 percent recycled superalloy — and saving 30…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Taiwan Factory Uses Robots to Make Sneakers
Lucas and Luna visit a state-of-the-art sneaker factory in Taiwan that has replaced nearly all manual labor with robots. They explore how the factory uses…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Brazilian Factory Uses Bamboo to Replace Steel
Lucas and Luna visit Espírito Santo, Brazil, where a midsize factory has spent eight years perfecting a process that turns fast-growing bamboo into structural…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Swedish Factory Recycles Every Scrap of Steel
Lucas and Luna visit a Swedish steel mill that has achieved a 99.6% recycling rate for all production scrap. They unpack the closed-loop system: how the…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Swiss Factory Uses Fungi to Grow Packaging
Episode 32 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits a small factory in Switzerland that has replaced polystyrene and plastic foam with packaging grown from…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Moroccan Factory Grew Tomatoes in the Desert
Episode 31 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits the Sahara Desert to explore how a Moroccan agri-factory, SaharaGrow, produces 40,000 tons of tomatoes annually…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Japanese Factory Trains Workers with Decades-Old Skills
In Episode 30 of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna look at a factory in Japan that teaches ancient manual techniques—like sharpening industrial knives…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Factory Uses Predictive AI to Eliminate Downtime
Episode 29 of The Manufacturing Podcast dives into how one German factory, part of the Bosch group in Stuttgart, has used predictive machine learning to cut…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Japanese Factory Uses Paper-Thin Sensors to Cut Waste
Episode 28 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits a specialty paper mill in Shikoku, Japan, that has embedded paper-thin, flexible sensors into its production…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Factory Uses Waste Heat to Power a District
Episode 27 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits the Bavarian town of Unterschleißheim, where a medium-sized automotive components factory has turned its waste…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Belgian Factory Uses Digital Twins to Predict Equipment Failure
Episode 26 of The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo takes you inside a factory in Antwerp, Belgium, where engineers have built a digital twin of their entire…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Canadian Factory Uses Water Filtration to Beat Drought
Lucas and Luna explore how a factory in drought-prone British Columbia cuts water use by 80 percent using advanced membrane filtration and closed-loop cooling…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a French Factory Used Lego to Fix Its Safety Culture
Episode 24 of The Manufacturing Podcast digs into an unusual factory turnaround: how French automotive parts supplier Novares used Lego Serious Play workshops…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Factory Uses Exoskeletons to Cut Injury Rates
Lucas and Luna visit a German auto parts factory where workers are wearing lightweight exoskeletons on the assembly line — not as science fiction, but as a…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Small Factory in Nebraska Scaled to 100 Employees Without Adding Managers
Lucas and Luna visit a Nebraska factory that grew from 18 to 100 employees in five years without adding a single layer of middle management. The secret? A…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Small Factory in Ohio Beat Tariffs with a 3D Printer Farm
Episode 21 of The Manufacturing Podcast looks at how a 110-person job shop in Cleveland, Ohio, used a 24-printer additive manufacturing farm to bypass Section…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Texas Solar Farm Powers a Factory 24-7
Episode 20 visits a factory in West Texas that runs on solar power around the clock, using a behind-the-meter battery array and a power purchase agreement that…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Tennessee Factory Uses Augmented Reality for Training
Lucas and Luna explore how a mid-sized automotive parts factory in Tennessee is deploying augmented reality (AR) headsets to train new hires in half the usual…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Michigan Factory Cut Scrap Rate to Near Zero
Episode 18 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits a mid-sized auto parts factory outside Detroit that spent two years whittling its scrap rate from 8 percent to…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Texas Factory Solved Its Labor Shortage with a Four-Day Week
Episode 17 of The Manufacturing Podcast explores how a mid-sized factory in Texas tackled a severe labor shortage by switching to a four-day, ten-hour workweek…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How Boeing's Factory Workers Build the 737 Max
In this episode, Lucas and Luna take you inside Boeing's Renton factory to understand how the 737 Max is assembled. They focus on the specific challenges…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Dutch Factory Supplies Europe with Microchips in Under 48 Hours
In this episode, Lucas and Luna look at a factory in Nijmegen, Netherlands that has built a business around speed. While most chip fabrication takes months…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Finnish Paper Mill Turned Into a Biorefinery
The forest-products giant UPM closed its paper mill in Jämsänkoski, Finland, in 2021 — then reopened it as a biorefinery making biochemicals from wood. Lucas…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Small Factory in Italy Built a Luxury Brand
Episode 13 of The Manufacturing Podcast explores the fascinating story of a small Italian factory that defied the odds by transforming itself into a globally…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Kentucky Factory Retrained Every Worker for Industry 4.0
Episode 12 of The Manufacturing Podcast dives into how a mid-sized Kentucky auto parts plant retrained all 820 employees over 18 months to operate its new…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Spanish Factory Turned Food Waste Into Bioplastics
Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Almería, Spain that turns tomato and pepper waste into biodegradable packaging. They break down the numbers: 2,400 tons of…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Swedish Factory Built a Circular Economy That Actually Makes Money
In this episode, Lucas and Luna visit a Swedish factory that has turned its waste into a revenue stream. The plant, which manufactures industrial filtration…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Danish Factory Uses Thermal Batteries to Cut Steam Costs
Episode 9 of The Manufacturing Podcast digs into a specific energy innovation: how a Danish industrial bakery replaced its natural gas steam boiler with a…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Norwegian Factory Turns Waste Heat Into Profit
Episode 8 of The Manufacturing Podcast digs into industrial heat recovery at a Norwegian aluminum recycling plant. Lucas and Luna walk through how Norsk Metall…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Small Taiwanese Factory Beat the Chip Shortage by Rethinking Procurement
When the global chip shortage hit in 2021, many small manufacturers were left scrambling. But one family-run electronics factory in Taichung, Taiwan, with just…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
Why One Factory Changed Its Entire Incentive System
How does a factory get workers to care about quality, not just speed? This episode looks at a real case: a mid-sized automotive parts plant in Ohio that…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Japanese Factory Built a 50-Year Maintenance Culture
Episode 5 of The Manufacturing Podcast dives into the specific maintenance practices that let a mid-sized Japanese precision-parts factory run for 50 years…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Mexican Border Factory Reshaped North American Supply Chains
Episode 4 of The Manufacturing Podcast explores the rise of Mexico's manufacturing corridor, focusing on a specific plant in Monterrey that shifted from…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a French Factory Cut Energy Costs 30 Percent
Episode 3 of The Manufacturing Podcast dives into industrial energy efficiency. Lucas and Luna examine how French automotive supplier Forvia overhauled its…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Mid-Sized Factory Automated Quality Control
Lucas and Luna zoom in on a single mid-sized German manufacturer — a 400-person automotive supplier in Baden-Württemberg — that replaced manual visual…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How One Factory Cut Downtime by 40 Percent
In this debut episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a concrete case: how a mid-sized automotive parts supplier in Ohio used predictive…