Machine Shop Growth
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<blockquote>The Machine Shop Growth Podcast gives a fresh perspective to help you grow your shop by focusing on 3 key factors - Sales, Marketing and Efficiency. For decades the machine shop industry was build on a “good-ol-boys” mentality and was full of great machinists and engineers that made great parts. What has been discovered is many of those amazing shops have plateaued or are starting to decline - because they didn’t put enough emphasis on getting more work and making more money with the work they had. <br><br>On this podcast you will hear first hand advice from machine owners and mangers how they are getting more work and how they are making more money. Now let’s Grow Your Shop!</blockquote><p><br></p>
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Recent Episodes
May 12, 2026
Episode #29: Tool Holders, Setup Time, and the 80/20 Rule for Machine Shop Growth
Host Kirk Phelps reveals how standardizing tool holders and applying the 80/20 rule drastically reduces setup time and boosts machine shop efficiency.
May 5, 2026
Episode #28: The 5 KPI’s to Track for Shop Growth
Your shop may be busy… But is it actually growing? In this episode, Mike Fritz breaks down the 5 KPI’s every machine shop should track if they want more control over sales, production, profitability, and long-term growth. Most shops judge success by whether there’s money in the bank, parts are shipping, and customers seem happy. But that only tells part of the story. Without tracking the right numbers, a shop can miss warning signs like low margins, weak RFQ flow, poor follow-up, or dangerous...
April 28, 2026
Episode #27: Before You Buy a Robot, Standardize Your Process
Before you buy the robot… Fix the process. In this episode of the Machine Shop Growth Podcast: Operations Edition, Kirk Phelps breaks down what shops need to standardize before they ever think about automation, second shift, or lights-out machining. Because automation sounds exciting. But if your tooling changes every job, your workholding is inconsistent, your programmers are reinventing the wheel, and your shop floor depends on tribal knowledge… That robot may just become an expensive decor...
30 total episodes available with 12 transcripts
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- What is Machine Shop Growth?
<blockquote>The Machine Shop Growth Podcast gives a fresh perspective to help you grow your shop by focusing on 3 key factors - Sales, Marketing and Efficiency. For decades the machine shop industry was build on a “good-ol-boys” mentality and was full of great machinists and engineers that made great parts. What has been discovered is many of those amazing shops have plateaued or are starting to decline - because they didn’t put enough emphasis on getting more work and making more money with the work they had. <br><br>On this podcast you will hear first hand advice from machine owners and mangers how they are getting more work and how they are making more money. Now let’s Grow Your Shop!</blockquote><p><br></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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