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Latest Episodes

Ep. 118 - Coping with Stress at Work with Darcy Gruttadaro
April 15, 2021

Today is the final episode of our series about mental health in the workplace.   Our guest is Darcy Gruttadaro, Director of the Center for Workplace Mental Health at the American Psychiatric Association Foundation.

Ep. 117 – Mental Recovery with Dr. Ari Graff
April 08, 2021

On today’s podcast we are continuing our season about mental health. Our guest is Dr. Ari Graff, a psychologist at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, a nationally ranked rehabilitation research hospital based in Chicago.

Best of Swarfcast – John Habe IV on Valuing a Machining Business, Parts I & II
April 02, 2021

Today’s podcast is a “Best of Swarfcast” from Summer of 2019, a two-part interview we did with John Habe IV, President of Metal Seal Precision, a machining company based in Mentor, Ohio. Over the last several years,

Ep. 115 – Treasure Hunting, Swarf, and Sliders with Noah Graff
March 19, 2021

Back in February I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the MTD Podcast, an excellent podcast about machining in the UK. Hosts Joe Reynolds and Giovanni Albanese grilled me about a lot of our favorite topics featured on Swarfcast,

Best of Swarfcast – Ep. 25 – Brett May on Keeping Screw Machines Relevant
March 11, 2021

We interviewed Brett May of BME Inc. Screw Machine Attachments for today’s podcast. Brett’s mission in business is to make old cam multi-spindle screw machines like National Acmes, Wickmans, and New Britains into productive money makers in today’s comp...

Ep. 113 – A MultiSwiss Screw Machine to Maximize Production, with John Belmonte
February 25, 2021

On today’s podcast we continue our series about Swiss machining. Our guest is John Belmonte, owner and President of Mitotec, a precision turning company in Necedah, Wisconsin. Recently Mitotec purchased a Tornos MultiSwiss 8X26 multi-spindle screw mach...

Ep. 109 – Citizen CNC Swiss Lathes with Marc Klecka
January 21, 2021

Today’s show is the first episode of our new season about Swiss-Type CNC machining. Our guest is Marc Klecka, founder and president of Concentric Corporation, a prominent distributor of Citizen-Cincom CNC Swiss lathes in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ep. 108 – Tool Life Optimization with Benjamin York
January 14, 2021

Our guest on today’s show is Benjamin York. Benjamin’s company, Theory 168, makes a product called Tool Life that collects and analyzes data on machine tools to optimize efficiency in machine shops. Scroll down to read more and listen to the podcast wi...

Ep. 107 – Reshaping the Supply Chain After COVID-19, with Professor Yossi Sheffi
January 07, 2021

Our guest on today’s show is Professor Yossi Sheffi, author of the new book, The New (AB)NORMAL: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19. In the interview, Sheffi explains how companies and governments around the world have dealt w...

Ep. 106 – The Machining World of 2020, with Noah and Lloyd Graff
December 17, 2020

On today’s show we’re looking back on the year 2020. Obviously, it was a tough year for the majority of people around the world. Loved ones were taken away, and many businesses couldn’t stay afloat. There were a lot of things that sucked.