
Manufacturing Meet Up
Hosted by Ed and Alvaro · Augury
5.0from 1 ratings
- 48
- Episodes
- 14
- Transcribed
- 1
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Manufacturing Meet Up
Your place for real talk about working efficiently and kicking back on your downtime. Pull up a chair and join manufacturing veterans Ed Ballina and Alvaro Cuba as they break down factory life.
- Publisher
- Augury
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Apr 2024
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
14 of 48 episodes have a transcript.

7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Maintenance Budgets & Why Supervisors Stay Silent

26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Manufacturing's Labor Gap: Can AI Agents Fill It?

2 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Survive a Plant Visit From Senior Leadership
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Maintenance Budgets & Why Supervisors Stay Silent
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But most of the savings don't appear in maintenance. They appear in production labor when you run more efficient. They appear in waste where you're not overfilling or foaming, et cetera. So the maintenance department pays the cost. Now, they're going to get savings. Don't get me wrong. If the valves, right, or the equipment doesn't fail as often, they're going to have less secondary failures and they're going to have less wasted time fixing stuff. But you have to go really look at where their savings are occurring. So, for example, if your equipment is in better shape, you should have less preform jams and less lost preforms. […]
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Who hosts Manufacturing Meet Up?
Ed and Alvaro host the show. Published by Augury.
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