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Calling off work is the easiest thing to do, right?

Maybe not, and maybe that breakdown in communications is costing you a lot more than you think.

Sheila Stafford, co-founder and CEO of TeamSense, joined us for Episode 112 to explain how her company's platform to facilitate offtime call-ins for your team members can actually reduce absenteeism and improve productivity.

Sheila learned all this firsthand in her time on the floors of various manufacturing operations. The dysfunctional communication methods she witnessed for herself inspired her to help found and launch TeamSense.

Here are some highlights from our chat:
7:30 - manufacturing-specific design - careers vs. jobs
8:40 - it's not an app, so people don't get bent out of shape about you commandeering their personal devices
11:00 - remove manual processes and multiple different contact methods, and automate the data
12:30 - fix language barriers!
18:30 - it's an employee portal!
22:00 - facilitate schedule and vacation management
25:30 - future opportunity: leverage AI to add more automation

Tune in for an extremely educational conversation!

The TeamSense website: https://www.teamsense.com/

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Alex Krüger is the co-founder and CEO of United Manufacturing Hub (UMH), our subject company, and Frank Thelen is co-founder and CEO of Freigeist, a venture capital fund that's backing them. They joined us for Episode 111 to explain all about why digitalization is now a must for manufacturing companies, and how you can best go about it. Here are some of the highlights:

5:30 - your digital use case and single source of truth
11:45 - how to build internal tech innovation - it has to become part of your company's DNA
14:00 - how to make your data actionable
19:00 - reduce complexity and try something out
24:00 - get manufacturing people and the manufacturing world involved

Find out how UMH is helping manufacturing companies become tech companies, and learn some specific changes you can make so you don't get left behind in this critical transition.

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Bruce Bigelow joins us for Episode 110 to share the latest and greatest in one of the biggest coming pieces of science technology ever. The Giant Magellan telescope, which is being constructed in Chile, will open up vistas of our universe we couldn't even have dreamed about a few years ago.

This instrument features some extraordinary designs and manufacturing methods that enable it to do what it will be able to do. Bruce tells us all about them, and about where things stand on the building of this amazing scientific tool.

Their website: https://giantmagellan.org/

The latest news: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/06/13/2898457/0/en/Giant-Magellan-Telescope-Enclosure-Ready-for-Construction.html

My Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimvinoski/2022/08/02/magic-mirrors-will-power-the-giant-magellan-telescope/