Bronson Jones is CEO and owner of Banner Metals Group in Grandview, Ohio. Founded in 1921 as a tool and die company, Banner Metals Group has expanded its offerings to metal stamping, fabrication, welding, CNC machining, laser cutting, and engineering services. Banner Metals manufactures metal products for industries throughout the world, including aerospace and automotive.… Continue reading Bronson Jones, Banner Metal Groups

Stephanie Kovach, who is an employee development specialist, and Amy Nelson, who is a manufacturing talent program development specialist, discuss their innovative approaches to workforce development practices at Crown Equipment Corporation. Located in New Bremen, Ohio, Crown Equipment is the fourth largest material handling manufacturer of powered industrial forklift trucks in the worldwith almost $3… Continue reading Stephanie Kovach and Amy Nelson, Crown Equipment Corporation

A household name, Stanley Black & Decker is a Fortune 500 American manufacturer of industrial tools, household hardware and security products. As Vice President of Breakthrough Innovation for Stanley Black & Decker’s Innovation Accelerator team, Bob Welsh’s focus is to improve and advance SBD’s global innovation processes and impact. Additionally, his team is responsible for… Continue reading Bob Welsh, Stanley Black & Decker

Dr. Barbara Trautlein, PhD, is a leadership strategist, keynote speaker, host of the Women and Manufacturing Podcast, and founder of Change Catalysts LLC. She has worked with leaders in manufacturing and steel industries, among many otherindustries, to facilitate successful and sustainable change at all levels. Some of her company clients include: Ford Motor Company, Abbott… Continue reading Barbara Trautlein, Change Catalysts, LLC

While working for Systems and Materials Research Consultancy, Anjan Contractor, CEO and co-founder of BeeHex, invented NASA’s 3D food printer system for deep space missions.The system can “print” dishes using layers of food powders that will have a shelf life of three decades.For the first time, astronauts mayenjoy space pizza while meetingthe agency’s strict nutritional… Continue reading Anjan Contractor, BeeHex

Dan Rockwell is CEO and co-founder of Big Kitty Labs, a rapid prototyping digital agency based in Columbus, Ohio. The company was founded in 2009 after a series of events that led him to realize that building things should be easier, and that prototypes provide a ready foundation. Building Big Kitty was an act largely… Continue reading Dan Rockwell, Big Kitty Labs

Sundar Veeraraghavan, PhD, manages emerging products at UES Inc., a Dayton-area science and technology firm and an R&D 100 Award winner. At UES, he focuses on helping to mature and bring to market the cutting-edge technologies that his colleagues develop in materials science, surface engineering, power and propulsion, lasers and photonics as well as bio-… Continue reading Sundar Veeraraghavan, UES Inc.

John Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group, is an internationally recognized expert on manufacturing and technology with more than two-decades experience devoted to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations as well as how companies can adapt themselves to today’s new markets, corporate structures, and customer demands. John’s work at MPI Group has produced… Continue reading John Brandt, The MPI Group

Jeff Berrie, PhD, is vice president and division manager at BerrieHill Research, a Division of Applied Research Associates. BerrieHill offers expertise in the design and development of antennas, computational eletromagnetics and RF measurements. Previously, Jeff worked at Mission Research Corporation (now part of Orbital-ATK) for 13 years, leading the Signature Exploitation Group of their Electromagnetic… Continue reading Jeff Berrie, BerrieHill Research

Robert Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University and director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor with the Supply Chain Management Research Group at the Manchester Business School. Robert is the consulting editor of the Journal of… Continue reading Robert Handfield, Supply Chain Resource Cooperative