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Air Filtration’s Role in Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19
The Voice of B2B Daniel Litwin was recently joined by Atmos Air VP, Operations Tony Abate remotely in the MarketScale home studio to discuss air filtration’s role in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and promoting healthier air. In particular, Abate said proper maintenance and filtration in both commercial and residential HVAC systems is…
How to Become a More Effective Public Speaker
Being an effective speaker is much more than flipping through a fancy PowerPoint filled with facts and figures. Good presenters are engaging, exciting, and connect with the audience while getting their point across. Whether you’re a traveling presenter who speaks at many conferences a year or someone who has does a few smaller presentations a…
The Ripple Effects of COVID-19 on the Transportation Industry: Roads, Rails, & Rides
As COVID-19 spreads throughout the world, many countries are encouraging social distancing and quarantining. On this special segment of Roads, Rails, & Rides host Jeb Morris discussed the effects of the pandemic on the transportation industry so far and what else we can expect to see. With fewer people going to work in person or…
Commercial Farming Initiatives That We Would Have Seen At Expo West 2020
Sustainability is a significant focus in commercial farming—doing so consistently and seamlessly takes work and action. Its presence is felt by the individual farmer all the way to global food companies. What many might not know is that each farm has a story to tell with its data and efforts that food manufacturers want to…
The Fourth Revolution: How the Toyota Production System Can Cut Costs and Grow Your Company
The Fourth Revolution explores the evolution of and science behind lean production practices with guest Stephen Dardaris, director of continuous improvement for Hillrom. From post-war factory production to modern-day automation, manufacturing has evolved and continues to change. Dardaris explained how Toyota’s Production System fits into production history while still influencing global manufacturing efficiency with…
Standard Change-Makers Adapts by Finding What Decision-Makers Really Want
Change is Mike Coons’s business. No, literally. Coons’s business is change. For the last 17 years, he’s been with Standard Change-Makers, a company founded in the 1950s making the machines you may have grown up seeing at arcades that can frequently be found today in laundromats, vending machines and car washes. With such a…
Automation in the Paint Shop: Robots with a Human Touch
Derek DeGeest, President, DeGeest Steel Works, and Lesta USA, went on a search for ways to automate business processes, utilize software and technology, and help his employees accomplish more. What came next is an answer many general industry manufacturers are looking for too. As DeGeest Steel Works’ automation processes grew, a bottleneck formed at the…
Driving Frontline Efficiency and Customer Experiences in Retail: Retail Legends
On this episode of Retail Legends, host Nicole Leinbach Reyhle was joined by Brett Patrontasch, co-founder of mobile-based workforce management app Shyft, and Astound Chief Experience Officer Andrew Leibowitz. Patrontasch and Reyhle spoke at length about how Shyft is working to engage hourly staff members and drive frontline efficiency for retailers. Specifically, Patrontasch highlighted…
The Future of Manufacturing As Robotics Increase in Popularity
Many science fiction plots pit technology like robots against humans, suggesting that an increase in the use of robotics is damaging to people and societies. Simon Whitton, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Kuka Robotics, shared with Marketscale host Daniel Litwin why he thinks reality is much more positive than science fiction might…
Marking Minute: Behind the Scenes in The Presco Lab
Dr. Stephen Hutcheson, Technical Director, Presco Polymers and Stephen Janak, Chemical Engineer, Presco popped by Marking Minute to give host James Kent an insider’s perspective on the research & development process of many of Presco’s products. Dr. Hutcheson, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, found his love of STEM at an early age. His father…
Flintco Forward: The Challenges and Advantages of Being a Woman in Construction
Bhavna Nim, Sarah Nario, and Alex Janota are just three of Flintco’s many female professionals succeeding in the heavily male-dominated construction industry. On this episode of the Flintco Forward podcast, host Shelby Skrhak sat down with these three successful women to discuss their different pathways to a career in construction and offer advice for the…
Handling Chiller Repairs and Rebuilds With a Trusted Service Provider
When it’s time for chiller repairs or a rebuild, that situation requires immediate resolution from the facilities manager. Does that mean a potentially time-consuming wait for the manufacturer to provide a solution? It doesn’t have to be. The team at NAC Mechanical discussed chiller repairs and maintenance and addressed the need to go straight…
Powerhouse Players: How Prefabrication is Powering Plug and Play
According to a recent report, 61% of construction companies expect to employ full prefabrication at least 10% of the time. That represents unprecedented growth in the industry. “We’re seeing a lot more companies leaning toward going prefab[rication],” said Darren Heavner, Southern Regional Sales Manager for Trachte. There are obvious advantages to utilizing the fully…
Marking Minute: Digging Into Presco’s Lamination Solutions
Presco is known for its tremendous variety of marking products, but some customers might not realize the company also offers a wide range of lamination solutions. Tony Car, Technical Sales for Engineered Film at Presco, said there are number of areas where the company is doing exciting work, with product applications ranging from items for…
How to Tackle Allergies and Improve Air Quality Indoors
With spring comes a welcome change in temperatures and a feeling of rebirth, as shrubs, trees and more sprout beautiful green leaves and multihued flowers. And pollen. Lots of pollen. For some of us, it’s a season of coughing, sneezing, itchy eyes and a nose that just won’t stop flowing. Ugh! Springtime allergies affect millions…
Powerhouse Players: Surgeons In the Hospital, Surgeons On the Roof
It is easier to set up a crane and lift a prefabricated building to its end location than it is to have hundreds of trade workers traverse stairs over a six-month period to work on the roof of a hospital. That is true even if Trachte needs to place a prefabricated e-house that is…
How Would Continued Minimum Wage Hikes Impact Car Washes?
HB 395, a Virginia bill aimed at gradually increasing the state’s minimum hourly wage to $15 an hour cleared a major hurdle earlier this month, passing through the Virginia House along a party-line vote of 55-45. The most immediate impact would come on July 1 of this year, when the bill, first introduced by Del….
The Past, Present and Future of Airport Development
The majority of our nation’s 70s-era airport infrastructure is lagging behind others in the world, where airports that have essentially evolved into tourist destinations of their own. Changi Airport in Singapore, for instance, offers gardens, children’s play areas, shopping centers, a free all-day movie theater, and a recently opened “living lab” that allows Changi…
All Things Composites: Industry Veteran Insights on the Past, Present, and Future of Composites
From snow skis to Corvettes, airplanes and infrastructure, composites are all around us. But what are they, and where do they fit in to modern-day manufacturing? Magnum Venus Products unpacks the topic on the premiere episode of “All Things Composites,” joined by special guest Dale Brosius, Chief Commerical Officer at IACMI. With decades of…
Straight Outta Crumpton: Paying it Forward in Business Relationships with Adi Avin
Hosts Greg Crumpton and Tyler Kern are back for another episode of “Straight Outta Crumpton,” your source for insights on the relationships and people that drive the HVAC and mechanical industry and beyond. On this episode, the duo is joined by gardin, LLC. founder and CEO Adi Avin. Avin’s gardin is an interior plant…
Why to Consider a Telehandler-Mounted Glass Manipulator for Residential Glazing
As the weight and dimensions of heavy glass that needs to be installed increases, so does the need for innovative glazing robots and glass manipulators that can keep pace. Though the size of the glass needing to be installed and the nature of the machines helping human operators complete that installation may be ever-evolving, the…
The Roboticist Chronicles: Robots Aren’t Stealing Your Jobs, They’re Creating Them
As technology advances at an exponential rate, a common fearful sentiment among Americans is that robots are stealing human jobs. But, this long standing rumor couldn’t be farther from the truth. Robots actually create jobs, save humans from harm, and open up opportunities for new industry growth. The Roboticist Chronicles unpacks how robots are…
The Future of Dallas Transportation: Roads, Rails, & Rides
Today, on the second episode of MarketScale’s Roads, Rails & Rides—a video series on the transit tech and trends that move us—host Jeb Morris sits down with Dustin Bullard, the Vice President of Planning and Public Space at Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), to discuss the past, present and future of the city’s commuter transit…
Providing Eyes in the Sky for Roofing Contractors
When a customer calls and requests a quote on a construction project like repairing or replacing a roof, there’s no way to know anything about the site until arriving there. Nearmap changes that. At the International Roofing Expo, Amanda Marchetti, a Project Manager at Nearmap, explains how the technology is modernizing industries like roofing and…
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