Product of Many Imaginations

February 3, 2023 Hosted by Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

MacroFab's Misha Govshteyn and Chris Church check in with Parker and Stephen to give his take on supply chains, nearshoring and reshoring.

Previous Episodes

The State of Digital Manufacturing

  • What is digital manufacturing?
  • Is there a definition of digital manufacturing?
  • Other players in this space.
  • Some business models are winning, some models are stuck in neutral.

New Round of Investment

  • Why does a manufacturer need investment?
  • The nature of investors

Does anyone actually care about this?

  • What does this all mean for new technologies and business models in manufacturing? 
  • Does anyone care? 
  • Or is it just normal sorting of what works from what doesn’t?

Reshoring

  • Nature of People
    •  Many “Talks the talk but don’t walk the walk”
  • Who currently cares about this?
    • Procurement?
    • Engineering?
    • Maybe just Parker? 

MacroFab History

  • Original MacroFab concept
  • Pivots
  • Chris Church’s “Rules for Start Up Names”
  • What is next? New Head Quarters.

Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!