Ep. 77 The Birthday edition of Smart Manufacturing!!

  • On May 9, 2023

With only one week left until the event, we get into the weeds on the importance of attending Manufacturing Your Future Smart Manufacturing if you are a manufacturer in Massachusetts. The event will be held Friday, May 19, 2023 at Polar Park and will have all the ingredients that make a great recipe. Keynote speaker, Walker Reynolds, Breakout Sessions, Jack Healy Award Presentation, Tour of Solvus Global and capping the night off with networking on the Hanover Deck as we Grill and Chill with MassMEP. Listen now to hear all about it, oh, and a special someone’s birthday we will be celebrating in style that night!!

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Ep. 76 Let’s CONNEX Massachusetts Manufacturers!

  • On April 6, 2023

Are you hearing about CONNEX™ Massachusetts? If so, this episode Kristy Grignon, Senior Director of Business Development & Kim Ingalls, Director of Business Operations will explain it all. CONNEX™ Massachusetts is an online platform that connects all Massachusetts and U.S. manufacturers into a single, accurate, searchable supply-chain database. CONNEX™ Massachusetts connects small manufacturers and suppliers to large primes, OEM’s and other buyers based on data such as equipment, certifications, SBA designations, processes, capabilities and more.

Whether you’re a buyer or supplier, CONNEX™ Marketplace is your solution to find and be found! Thursday, April 13th, the virtual product launch, MassMEP, WPI, UMass Lowell, MIT, FORGE, MassRobotics, MassTech Collaborative, AIM & the BIC, known as the Massachusetts Manufacturing Ecosystem, are coming together to celebrate the kickoff for CONNEX™ Massachusetts.

If you are looking to upgrade your CONNEX™ Massachusetts account, to a national database subscription, CONNEX™ Marketplace it can be done! For a limited time only, through the MassMEP license, companies can upgrade for a free lifetime subscription with the code MAFree. Go to your account and click on “My Subscriptions”. Select to upgrade your account to CONNEX™ Marketplace and enter the promo code. Membership can be cancelled at any time.

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Ep. 75 Meet the New Guy

  • On March 22, 2023

It has been too long so we welcome 2023 with the MassMEP Manufacturing Podcast. We talk about a full lineup of events for Spring in March, April & May and a new starting player for the MassMEP team. Welcome, Kevin Tata, MassMEP Marketing Associate. Listen to this quick episode and be reminded on how much you have missed the podcast! Need coupon code? Use PODCASTEP75 IYKYK!

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Ep. 74 Jack Frost for New Years

  • On December 29, 2022

We celebrate the end of another great year to 2022 as we usher in the excitement for 2023. The gang is back for the NYE & New Year podcast for our third year with Kristy Grignon, Sales & Marketing Director and Matt Healy, MassMEP IT Manager as they help us ring in the new year! Happy New Years and here’s to a prosperous 2023!

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Ep. 73 Ghosts of Christmas Past, “Presents” and Future

  • On December 12, 2022

Back for our third year with the MassMEP Holiday podcast! We sit down with our Ghost of Christmas Past, MassMEP Director of Sales & Marketing, Kristy Grignon, Ghosts of Christmas “Presents”, your hosts, and Ghost of Christmas Future and first time guest, MassMEP Administration Manager, Robin Anderson. As you are sitting in the holiday traffic, turn this one up and take a listen to the MassMEP version of this old holiday classic and the twists of the plot for the Manufacturers in Massachusetts.

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Ep. 72 Introducing The Robin Hood of Safety

  • On November 29, 2022

This podcast is for manufacturers that have been asking for OSHA training sessions that are covered by funding. Mary Ann Falvey, Director Office of Safety for the DIA and Darcy Cook of Safety Trainers are the SME’s that are here to tell you how the DIA is in full support of Massachusetts Manufacturers and their safety needs!

DIA’s Workplace Safety Grant

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Ep. 71 We were on a break!

  • On November 3, 2022

Best 45 minutes spent with these two guests! Kathie Mahoney, MassMEP President and Dennis Leonard, OFS President and MassMEP Board Chair sat with us to talk on all angles of the internal and external impacts at MassMEP. Dennis and OFS, a MassMEP client, also provides insight from the Manufacturers perspective on where Manufacturing is heading and how MassMEP can advise as we move forward. We were on a break, but Kathie has come home with pure passion, enthusiasm and drive for the future of Massachusetts Manufacturing, our partnerships, and the future vision of MassMEP! Subscribe to our podcast channel today!

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Ep. 70 Data is a critical element!

  • On October 20, 2022

Take 30-minutes to listen as we speak with John Joseph, CEO and Co-Founder of Datanomix, How Next-Gen Production Monitoring Empowers Today’s Workforce. John gets into details on how the layers of improving operations, assisting hiring, and company culture provide a host of benefits for boosting employee communications, attracting and hiring new workers, and fostering a positive company culture to help reduce the impact of today’s labor shortages. Check out Datanomix today!

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Ep. 69 He’s been on mute this whole time!

  • On October 13, 2022

We sit down with two of our Subject Matter Experts in Manufacturing/Advanced Manufacturing and talk about the importance of the student pipeline and STEM week. Join us as we learn more about what Howie Letendre and Flexcon are doing with students and how CAM, Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Adam Couturier, are enhancing those opportunities for all school in the state of Massachusetts! “We can’t teach students about something they don’t know exists.”

               

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Ep. 68 Powerpoint Olympian, Toy Fixer and FDA Expert…

  • On October 5, 2022

Join us as we chat with Ben Linville-Engler, Chief Investment Strategist and Program Exectuive with MassTech, about his upcoming workshop and how he transitioned from being an olympic athlete in Powerpoint to an expert in the FDA industry. For more information about MassTech visit their website at masstech.org.

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