{"podcast":{"title":"Making Chips Podcast for Manufacturing Leaders","slug":"making-chips-podcast-for-manufacturing-leaders-439170","podcast_index_feed_id":439170,"rss_url":"https://makingchips.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://makingchips.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/9/6/c/f/96cfb61c4bd36ef1e5bbc093207a2619/making-chips_podcastavatar.jpg","author":"Nick Goellner, Mike Payne, Paul Van Metre","episode_count":541,"summary":"Manufacturing is tough—but you don't have to go it alone. If you're leading a manufacturing business, you face constant pressure: staying competitive, adopting new tech, managing people, and driving growth. MakingChips helps you tackle those challenges head-on. Since 2014, we've been equipping manufacturing leaders with the knowledge and inspiration they need to succeed. With hundreds of episodes and over a million downloads, MakingChips is a top resource for the metalworking nation—covering leadership, operations, technology, and workforce development. If making chips is part of your daily grind, this is your podcast. Join hosts Nick Goellner, Mike Payne, and Paul Van Metre for real talk on the issues that matter most.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T20:17:44.927637+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/making-chips-podcast-for-manufacturing-leaders-439170"},"episode":{"title":"Lean, AI, and One-Piece Flow: How Henry Holsters Ships Same-Day | Ep. 535","slug":"lean-ai-and-one-piece-flow-how-henry-holsters-ships-same-day-ep-535","published_at":"2026-08-10T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/making-chips-podcast-for-manufacturing-leaders-439170/lean-ai-and-one-piece-flow-how-henry-holsters-ships-same-day-ep-535","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/making-chips-podcast-for-manufacturing-leaders-439170","url":"https://makingchips.libsyn.com/lean-ai-and-one-piece-flow-how-henry-holsters-ships-same-day-ep-535","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/makingchips/MC535.mp3?dest-id=237805","summary":"Most shops treat lean like a poster on the break room wall. Andrew Henry runs it like a competitive weapon. He built Henry Holsters into a company that ships around 55,000 orders a year, most of them the same day they come in, without stacks of work in process piling up on every bench. We caught up with Andrew at the Summit on the Summit, and the conversation kept circling back to one idea: The waste hiding in your shop usually is not the machine, but everything happening around the machine. He walks us through the custom vacuum former he eventually scrapped for parts, the moment \"Two Second Lean\" flipped a switch in his head, and the shift to one-piece flow that changed how his team works. We also dig into how he is putting AI to work right now, not someday. Re-pricing a newly acquired customer's parts in an afternoon instead of weeks. Scanning thousands of lines of inventory to surface dead stock and ERP errors. Using it as a sparring partner to keep high-stakes customer emails firm but professional. And yes, spending an afternoon fighting with a coding tool just to understand what it can actually do. There is a bigger theme running underneath all of it. Ten years after a lot of us met at our first IMTS, the shops that keep showing up, keep learning, and keep trying things are the ones still standing. The ones who decided they were too busy to leave the shop are a different story. If you have ever told yourself you do not have time for a morning meeting, a trade show, or an afternoon with a new tool, this episode is a friendly shove in the other direction. What's Covered in this Episode (1:26) Meet Andrew Henry of Henry Holsters, a lean guru and Workflow automation fan (2:40) Why Andrew bought a Matsuura MX-420 PC10 and what sold him on Hennig's Workflow (3:46) Ten y…","meta_description":"Most shops treat lean like a poster on the break room wall. Andrew Henry runs it like a competitive weapon. He built Henry Holsters into a company that sh…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3565,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/making-chips-podcast-for-manufacturing-leaders-439170/episodes/lean-ai-and-one-piece-flow-how-henry-holsters-ships-same-day-ep-535/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/making-chips-podcast-for-manufacturing-leaders-439170/lean-ai-and-one-piece-flow-how-henry-holsters-ships-same-day-ep-535.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}