Mush Khan talks about the state of manufacturing and how to win in today's marketplace

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Episode 138 features longtime manufacturing hand Mush Khan. He co-founded an industrial consultancy called Alchemy Industrial, and he's got an encyclopedic knowledge of the world of manufacturing, the state of industrial affairs these days, and what it takes for producers to succeed. And he's here to share it with all of you!
Here are some highlights.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:45 - Talking about his parents, a pipefitter and a seamstress
4:00 - Why he launched Alchemy Industrial
8:00 - The South Park episode about skilled trades
10:00 - Re- and near-shoring
11:30 - The pandemic supply chain wake-up
12:00 - US industrial advantages
13:30 - How we can rebuild our industrial base
18:00 - The need for automation
19:00 - Capturing tribal knowledge
21:30 - International trade and the supply chain implications
23:30 - The regulations situation
26:30 - The warning Germany represents
28:30 - Entrepreneurship
32:30 - Mush's first job as a reliability engineer and the importance of your network
There is so freakin' much here of huge value to everyone in industry! Tune in for the whole thing.
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