Editors Note: This podcast was recorded in Spring of 2022. Tyler has now been retired for over 2 years, and Noah is the proud father of a 1 year old. In early 2022, Tyler Jarosz sent me an email to a

On todays podcast we continue our season talking to successful companies who produce their own products. Todays guest is Joel Trusty, co-owner and President of Trusty-Cook, a company that manufactur

Last week, I heard a story about an old customer of Graff-Pinkert who lost three key machinists because a shop down the street was paying more. It led me to make a post on Linkedin, asking if machinis

Todays guest on the podcast is Jayme Rahz, CEO of Midway Swiss Turn, a small precision machining job shop in Wooster, Ohio. Around a quarter of Midway Swiss Turns business is supplying the U.S. Depa

In November of 2015, our used machine tool company, Graff-Pinkert, bought a Schtte S32PC, mfd. 2002, in Cologne, Germany, from a dealer we didnt know. It was a nice looking machine. A big 32mm CNC M

As a machinery dealer, very often I hear customers lament that they cant find good people to work in their machine shops. To this I say, perhaps they need to be more creative in hiring practices. May

Recently, Ive talked to a few Swarfcast listeners who are considering starting their own podcast shows, so I thought it made sense to make an episode discussing the merits of hosting a podcast as wel

On this podcast I spoke with James Persenaire, a district manager at FANUC America Corporation. James gave insight into the strengths and weaknesses of collaborative robots and how Fanucs collaborati

Steve Jobs once said, You cant connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. Today, Im goin

Todays Swarfcast is part one of an interview we did with David Wynn, CFO of ABF Engineering and Machining, a third generation screw machine shop in South Fulton, Tennessee. After earning an MBA, Davi