{"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":531,"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":"2026-07-13T20:20:15.879748+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/making-chips-podcast-for-manufacturing-leaders-439170"},"episode":{"title":"The Fast Eat the Slow: A Strategy Playbook for the Future of Your Machine Shop, 528","slug":"the-fast-eat-the-slow-a-strategy-playbook-for-the-future-of-your-machine-shop-528","published_at":"2026-06-29T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/making-chips-podcast-for-manufacturing-leaders-439170/the-fast-eat-the-slow-a-strategy-playbook-for-the-future-of-your-machine-shop-528","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/making-chips-podcast-for-manufacturing-leaders-439170","url":"https://makingchips.libsyn.com/the-fast-eat-the-slow-a-strategy-playbook-for-the-future-of-your-machine-shop-528","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/makingchips/MC528A.mp3?dest-id=237805","summary":"Most machine shops judge a good day by spindle time. If the machines are cutting, we're making money. If they're sitting still, something must be wrong. But what if keeping capacity open for the right customer is actually part of the product? That question kicks off our conversation with strategist Kaihan Krippendorff, who we met at MFG 2026 in Fort Lauderdale. Kaihan's big idea is that value is moving closer to the moment and place where it is needed. For machine shops, that means reshoring, faster turnaround, stocked material, flexible capacity, automation, and being the supplier customers call when a problem cannot wait. We talk about why customers are rarely just buying a part. They are buying uptime, speed, confidence, and the ability to avoid a production nightmare. That shift changes how a shop should think about pricing, customer relationships, and where it can create value beyond the machine. We also get practical about what this could look like on the shop floor: having material ready, showing available capacity online, and recognizing when a $200 part becomes a $2,000 solution because the customer needs it immediately. The future may not belong to the biggest shop or the cheapest shop. It may belong to the shops that understand urgency, move quickly, and become harder for customers to replace. Because it is not the big that eat the small. It is the fast that eat the slow. What's Covered in this Episode (1:06) Recapping MFG 2026 and welcoming Kaihan Krippendorff (2:02) Kaihan's two worlds: strategy thought leadership and the Outthinker think tank (4:02) The game is changing, and proximity is the new playbook (5:15) Reshoring, the end of globalization, and the rising cost of distance (6:39) Take your shop high-end with DN Solutions (7:52) \"Jobs to be done\": se…","meta_description":"Most machine shops judge a good day by spindle time. If the machines are cutting, we're making money. If they're sitting still, something must be wrong. B…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2969,"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/the-fast-eat-the-slow-a-strategy-playbook-for-the-future-of-your-machine-shop-528/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/the-fast-eat-the-slow-a-strategy-playbook-for-the-future-of-your-machine-shop-528.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}