The concept of an ESOP to me has always seemed extraordinary yet at the same time a little hard to grasp. E-S-O-P is an acronym for Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Basically it means an employee owned

My guest on todays show is Kris Fugate, President of Revolution Machine Works, a prominent rotary transfer machine rebuilder, specializing in Hydromats. Hydromats can seem strange and overwhelming to

Using savings to buy a 20-year-old Swiss machine thats been sitting idle for year is a gamble. Buying one to start a machining company without any customers yet or a place to put the machine means re

Have you ever wondered what it takes to manufacture luxury watches that cost tens of thousands of dollars? This is the episode to find out! Last week I reconnected with Josh Shapiro to tell him about

My guest on todays show immigrated to the United States from Mexico at 18 years old, went to tech school, worked his way up in job shops, became one of the top technicians at Tornos, and then founded

This week on Swarfcast, were sharing an interview we originally did back in 2020 with Paul Van Metre, Co-Founder of ProShop ERP. During our discussion, Paul shares a lot of valuable and timeless info

Do you ever wonder how I make a living buying and selling old iron? Sometimes Graff-Pinkerts used machinery business boggles our own minds too. But we have some tricks of the trade that make it possi

Pasta machines operate a lot like cam screw machines, Antonio Adiletta told me when I interviewed him for this weeks podcast. Antonio is co-owner of Arcobaleno and GAM Precision in Lancaster, Pennsyl

Working in the machining industry I hear the term lean manufacturing mentioned a lot. But what does the word lean really mean in this context? And how do you implement it in your company? To help

In honor of this weekends PMPA National Technical Conference, were resharing a podcast we did last year with Elliott May, engineer at BME in Port Huron, Michigan. BME builds original custom attachme