Machine Shop Growth
The Machine Shop Growth Podcast gives a fresh perspective to help you grow your shop by focusing on 3 key factors - Sales, Marketing and Efficiency. For decades the machine shop industry was build on a “good-ol-boys” mentality and was full of great machinists and engineers that made great parts. What has been discovered is many of those amazing shops have plateaued or are starting to decline - because they didn’t put enough emphasis on getting more work and making more money with the work they had.
On this podcast you will hear first hand advice from machine owners and mangers how they are getting more work and how they are making more money. Now let’s Grow Your Shop!
Podcasting since 2025 • 32 episodes
Machine Shop Growth
Latest Episodes
Episode 31: From Machine Operator to Shop Leader: Manufacturing Career Advice for Young Machinists
From Machine Operator to Shop Leader: Manufacturing Career Advice for Young Machinists | MSG Episode 31Most machinists start in the same place:Standing at a machine.Pushing a green button.Doing exactly what they're ...
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Episode #30: How to Start a Shop from Scratch
You don’t start a machine shop by buying a machine.You start it by solving a problem.In this episode, Mike Fritz and Kirk Phelps unpack the reality behind building a machine shop from scratch—and it’s probably different tha...
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Episode #29: Tool Holders, Setup Time, and the 80/20 Rule for Machine Shop Growth
Setup time is stealing more money from your shop than you think.In this episode of the Machine Shop Growth Podcast, Kirk Phelps digs deeper into standardization—specifically, tool holders, tooling storage, inventory systems, and t...
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