The Shop Floor, Top Floor Talk Show: Casual Convos with Manufacturing Pros
Manufacturing leaders face daily challenges—from quality pressures to efficiency demands. This show brings real conversations from those who've solved these problems.
But behind every high-performing plant are leaders solving big problems with innovative strategies, transformative technologies, and counter-intuitive approaches that challenge the status quo.
In each episode, you'll hear candid conversations with manufacturing professionals sharing their unique perspectives on top-of-mind topics and actionable advice you can apply immediately.
Walk away with actionable ideas and new perspectives on continuous improvement, from people who truly understand your daily challenges.
The Shop Floor, Top Floor Talk Show: Casual Convos with Manufacturing Pros
Latest Episodes
Leadership, Leadership, Leadership: The Real Root Cause of Quality Failures
In this episode of Shop Floor, Top Floor Talk Show, host Josh Santo sits down with Rich Nave, COO of The Luminous Group and a returning guest with 38 years in manufacturing, to talk about one of the more stubborn problems in the industry: quali...
Next-Gen Quality in Manufacturing: Engineering the Future of Quality Systems
In this episode of Shop Floor, Top Floor Talk Show, host Josh Santo sits down with Sainyam Arora, Quality Assurance and Systems Engineer at Johnson Matthey. They explore why quality breaks down when companies treat it as a department i...
Manufacturing Leadership: Why Quality and Customer Experience Belong Together
In this episode of Shop Floor, Top Floor Talk Show, host Josh Santo sits down with Anne Trobaugh, Vice President of Quality and Customer Experience at American Woodmark. Together, they explore what it takes to move quality beyond a compliance e...
Operational Excellence - It's a Mindset, Not a Project
In this episode of Shop Floor, Top Floor Talk Show, host Josh Santo sits down with Rajeev Seth, Director of Operational Excellence and Asset Reliability at Mondelez International. Together, they dive into the real meaning of operational excelle...
Data, Alignment, and Action: Lessons from Lean Transformation
In this episode of Shop Floor, Top Floor Talk Show, host Josh Santo sits down with Julie Adkins, Senior Manager of Lean Transformation, Continuous Improvement, and Operational Excellence, to dig into what it takes to drive meaningful c...
