Lean Built: Manufacturing Freedom
de Henry Holsters and Pierson Workholding
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Two successful entrepreneurs talk about manufacturing, lean principles, and the freedom they are pursuing in life and business.
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- What Should You Fix First in Your Machine Shop? | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E170 · 47 min · Épisode 170How do you grow a machine shop without losing sight of what makes the business worth running in the first place? In this episode, Andrew and Jay discuss the relationship between…
- Are Your Lean Processes Lean? | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E169 · 51 min · Épisode 169Jay and Andrew kick things off with a spirited disagreement over Jay’s decision to take a palm sander to his 1977 Fender Precision Bass. From there, the conversation turns to…
- What CNC Machines, Baseball Bats, and Guitars Have in Common | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E168 · 59 min · Épisode 168What do flying tiny homes, CNC machines, electric guitars, and the Tesla Roadster have in common? More than you might think. In this episode, Jay and Andrew cover a lot of…
- Are You Running Your CNC Machines Too Slow? | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E167 · 33 min · Épisode 167This week, Jay and Andrew talk about finding the right balance between speed, efficiency, and quality in the machine shop. After catching up on Jay’s experiment with working…
- Buy It, Build It, or Make Do? | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E166 · 53 min · Épisode 166Jay and Andrew talk through the shop decisions that look wrong on paper but make sense once you consider the whole system. That means knowing when excess inventory is costing you…
- Letting Employees Make Decisions Without Losing Control | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E165 · 32 min · Épisode 165What happens when your business grows to the point where you no longer know everything happening inside it? Jay and Andrew talk about the strange transition from doing everything…
- Why We Left IMTS Optimistic About Manufacturing | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E164 · 58 min · Épisode 164Jay and Andrew are back from IMTS 2026 with sore feet, too much espresso, and a lot to think about. They compare notes on what actually stood out at the show, from higher-density…
- Get More Optimized, Be Less Flexible? | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E163 · 52 min · Épisode 163Andrew and Jay are getting ready for IMTS and talking through what they actually want to find when they get there. The conversation starts with high-density workholding and the…
- Don’t Automate Waste | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E162 · 34 min · Épisode 162AI is starting to change the shop in ways that go far beyond ChatGPT. Andrew and Jay compare notes on the AI tools they are actually using, from automating invoices and…
- When to Cut Your Losses in Business | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E161 · 44 min · Épisode 161Andrew recently sold an underutilized CNC lathe, which raises a bigger question: when an investment does not work out as planned, was the money wasted? How do you gauge what…
- When Automation Creates More Work | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E160 · 41 min · Épisode 160What happens when the systems meant to make your shop more efficient start creating more complexity? Can automation be dangerous? When a system works reliably, how do you keep…
- Your Shop Doesn’t Have to Be Clean to Be Lean | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E159 · 25 min · Épisode 159What does a real lean shop look like when the cameras aren’t hiding the mess? In this episode of Lean Built, Jay Pierson goes solo to break down a behind-the-scenes day at…
- Going to IMTS 2026? 7 Tips for Machine Shop Owners | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E158 · 46 min · Épisode 158If you’re heading to IMTS 2026, don’t spend three days wandering around looking at machines you could have watched on YouTube. In this episode, Andrew and Jay share their best…
- When a Good Employee Isn’t the Right Employee | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E157 · 41 min · Épisode 157Change is inevitable, but how do you get through it without losing your culture? From improving systems and giving honest feedback to hiring the right people and knowing when…
- Why Simplicity Beats Complexity in Business | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E156 · 46 min · Épisode 156This week, Andrew and Jay dive into one of the most overlooked competitive advantages in business: simplicity. Inspired by Stuart Brand’s The Maintenance of Everything, they…
- Your Team Doesn’t See You the Way You Think They Do | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E155 · 49 min · Épisode 155This week, Andrew and Jay are back from vacation and comparing notes on what it takes to unplug without losing momentum. They talk about the transition back into work, why…
- Don’t Let AI Do Your Thinking | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E154 · 45 min · Épisode 154This week, Jay and Andrew treating vendors like partners, and why that pays off. They also dive into the evolution of their daily morning meetings, sharing how they’re constantly…
- Why Every Machine Shop Should Take More Shop Tours | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E153 · 19 min · Épisode 153What if one of the fastest ways to improve your machine shop is walking through someone else’s? In this solo episode, Andrew shares lessons from recent shop tours, including…
- Your Memory Is Not a Management System | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E152 · 59 min · Épisode 152Andrew shares how a simple magnetic tag meant to prevent a security mistake failed, not because the idea was bad, but because the process wasn’t complete. From there, Andrew and…
- The More You Optimize, The More Things Break | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E151 · 47 min · Épisode 151A single drop of coolant shut down an overnight production run that should have been making parts for hours. Nothing crashed or was broken, yet the machine stopped, production…
