Jim Vinoski interviews Benny Buller from Uptool, a startup focused on improving American machine shops. Benny, with a background in metal additive manufacturing, co-founded Uptool with Alex Huckstepp to address the inefficiencies in traditional manufacturing software. Uptool's AI-driven software automates the quoting process, reducing response times and increasing win rates. The platform integrates with email and cloud services, ensuring seamless operations. Uptool aims to help machine shops become faster, more responsive, and more productive, ultimately contributing to the growth of American manufacturing. In this short clip, Benny details Uptool's simple but revolutionary rate of return concept: "payback time on invested time." He says their software will return far more time saved than the time you invest in getting going with it. See the whole show here: https://youtu.be/d1k2lZCLyd4

Jim Vinoski interviews Benny Buller from Uptool, a startup focused on improving American machine shops. Benny, with a background in metal additive manufacturing, co-founded Uptool with Alex Huckstepp to address the inefficiencies in traditional manufacturing software. Uptool's AI-driven software automates the quoting process, reducing response times and increasing win rates. The platform integrates with email and cloud services, ensuring seamless operations. Uptool aims to help machine shops become faster, more responsive, and more productive, ultimately contributing to the growth of American manufacturing. In this short clip, Benny shares more details on how Uptool automates quoting and what that means for businesses. See the whole show here: https://youtu.be/d1k2lZCLyd4

Software for manufacturing feels like a minefield sometimes. These guys get it. Benny Buehler from Uptool, a startup focused on improving American machine shops, joined us this week. Benny, with a background in metal additive manufacturing, co-founded Uptool with Alex Huckstepp to address the inefficiencies in traditional manufacturing software. Uptool's AI-driven software automates the quoting process, reducing response times and increasing win rates. The platform integrates with email and cloud services, ensuring seamless operations. Uptool aims to help machine shops become faster, more responsive, and more productive, ultimately contributing to the growth of American manufacturing. The company has gained significant traction, with many customers already experiencing positive results. Here are the highlights: 00:00 - Introduction 01:38 - Benny's Background 03:43 - Challenges in Advanced Manufacturing 07:28 - Machine Shops' Skepticism Towards Software 10:29 - Uptool's Solution for Machine Shops 14:00 - AI Integration in Uptool 21:22 - Cloud-Based Software and Continuous Improvement 24:41 - Future Opportunities and Expansion This was a fascinating deep dive into how effective solutions for software for manufacturing are designed and implemented. The part about keeping up with AI developments was enlightening! Do check out the whole thing. Uptool website: https://uptool.com/company

In this week's solo episode, your host Jim Vinoski recaps last week's Energy Future Forum put on by the National Center for Energy Analytics, with its whole host of riveting speakers. He then gives the latest updates about his soon-to-be-released new book, *American Manufacturing: 22 Tales of Integrity, Ingenuity, and the Modest Heroes Who Built a Nation.* In this short clip, Jim explains the sad reality of the insane Democratic energy policies in Michigan that are leading the state to economic doom. But with a potential nuclear bright spot (and a new-ish Republican state House bent on overturning the clownish net-zero mandates...) See the whole new episode here: https://youtu.be/uBqd7gQSjFI

In this week's solo episode, your host Jim Vinoski recaps last week's Energy Future Forum put on by the National Center for Energy Analytics, with its whole host of riveting speakers. He then gives the latest updates about his soon-to-be-released new book, *American Manufacturing: 22 Tales of Integrity, Ingenuity, and the Modest Heroes Who Built a Nation.* In this short clip, Jim detailed some of the key points the S&P's Daniel Yergin made in his talk - about the need for more consistent (and more sane) public policies, and how the pace of our progress will be constrained by shortages of critical materials like copper. See the whole new episode here: https://youtu.be/uBqd7gQSjFI

In this week's solo episode, your host Jim Vinoski recaps last week's Energy Future Forum put on by the National Center for Energy Analytics, with its whole host of riveting speakers. He then gives the latest updates about his soon-to-be-released new book, *American Manufacturing: 22 Tales of Integrity, Ingenuity, and the Modest Heroes Who Built a Nation.* In this short clip, Jim explains how both manufacturing and nuclear power are in a moment unseen in our lifetimes, where all the stars are seemingly aligned in their favor here in the U.S. - and how we should make in our new national "moon shot" to once again capture the top nation spot in the world of manufacturing. See the whole new episode here: https://youtu.be/uBqd7gQSjFI

In this week's solo episode, your host Jim Vinoski recaps last week's Energy Future Forum put on by the National Center for Energy Analytics, with its whole host of riveting speakers. He then gives the latest updates about his soon-to-be-released new book, *American Manufacturing: 22 Tales of Integrity, Ingenuity, and the Modest Heroes Who Built a Nation.* In this short clip, Jim talks about one of the central themes from the forum, that of American dominance in energy production. It has made a tremendous difference in how we're weathering the current crisis in the Middle East. See the whole new episode here: https://youtu.be/uBqd7gQSjFI

In this week's solo episode, your host Jim Vinoski recaps last week's Energy Future Forum put on by the National Center for Energy Analytics, with its whole host of riveting speakers. He then gives the latest updates about his soon-to-be-released new book, *American Manufacturing: 22 Tales of Integrity, Ingenuity, and the Modest Heroes Who Built a Nation.* In this short clip, Jim discusses his visit this week with Holtec at the Palisades nuclear plant in southwest Michigan, where the nation's first restart of a shuttered nuke is happening right now. See the whole new episode here: https://youtu.be/uBqd7gQSjFI

In this solo episode, your host Jim Vinoski recaps last week's Energy Future Forum put on by the National Center for Energy Analytics, with its whole host of riveting speakers. He then gives the latest updates about his soon-to-be-released new book, *American Manufacturing: 22 Tales of Integrity, Ingenuity, and the Modest Heroes Who Built a Nation.* In this short clip, Jim recounts the discussion about humanoid robots vs. the more established industrial robots that he and NCEA founder and executive director Mark Mills engaged in when he first appeared on this show. See the whole new episode here: https://youtu.be/uBqd7gQSjFI