Latest Drilling Podcast Episodes
Episode #59: Marshall Adkins, Raymond James
Oilfield 360 Podcast - April 17, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsNavigating the Future of Energy with Marshall Adkins In this episode of the Oilfield 360 podcast, hosts David de Roode and Jim Wicklund welcome Marshall Adkins, the formidable Head of Energy Investment Banking at Raymond James. Known for his deep industry insights and dubbed a "sage" by his ...
Episode #58: Melissa Cougle, Ranger Energy Services
Oilfield 360 Podcast - April 04, 2024 12:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsCharting the Course: Melissa Cougle on Leadership, Risk-Taking, and the Evolution of Ranger Energy Services - An insightful journey through Melissa Cougle's transformative career from the vibrant Baton Rouge to the forefront of the oil and gas industry. Join us as the CFO of Ranger Energy Servic...
XYZ brings 19 machines to MACH 2024
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:34 - 4 minutesXYZ Machine Tools will be exhibiting the full range of its TMC machining centres for the first time at MACH 2024. The company will premiere the new XYZ CT65 LTY-S Twin/Sub spindle lathe. In total, XYZ will have 16 machines under power on its main Stand 140 in Hall 20, right next to the entranc...
Versatile workholding ensures productivity and precision
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:33 - 6 minutesTecnAir designs and manufactures an extensive variety of pneumatic cylinders, valve assemblies, linear drives, handling equipment, controls and other products. Located in Shipley, the company’s products are used for the assembly of standard and special automation solutions worldwide, predominan...
Sound of Music
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:31 - 12 minutesLike the ‘Sound of Music’ that has won its place in movie folklore, the 2024 ‘Sound of Studer’ themed event that took place at the company’s Steffisburg headquarters has won its place in the hearts and minds of the 65 journalists from over 20 countries that attended. The annual Fritz Studer AG ...
The impact of ESG reporting on manufacturers
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:30 - 8 minutesThe introduction of mandatory ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting is set to have significant implications for engineering businesses. Keith Davidson, Environment Partner at law firm Irwin Mitchell discusses how the upcoming ESG developments, starting in 2024, will fundamentall...
SME reorganises its entire production processes
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:27 - 4 minutesAs a Swiss SME that has thoroughly examined its production from a digital perspective, Sistag AG has recognised the potential of bits and bytes. The company has modernised its facility with a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) from Fastems and this approach is yielding interesting results with...
Quantum leap in accuracy
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:26 - 7 minutesAt the Röhm GmbH plant in Sontheim Germany, 750 employees manufacture technology-oriented solutions for the automotive industry, mechanical engineering and aerospace sectors in a 41,000sq/m facility. The parts in question are finished on Kellenberger Premium grinding machines. The company’s p...
Out of this world!
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:20 - 6 minutesA total of 16 machines, including a number making their UK and MACH Show debuts, plus two automated manufacturing cells and a complete Mills’ technology line-up will be on the largest stand at the event. In Hall 19 on Stand 110 Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of DN Solutions’ and Zayer m...
NCMT celebrates 60th anniversary at MACH 2024
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:15 - 9 minutesNCMT is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. In 1964, it was one of the first companies to sell CNC machine tools into the UK and Irish markets when it won the sole agency to sell and service Makino machining centres. Twelve years later, a second agreement was reached with Okuma, another...
ITC provides complete solution for composite experts
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:13 - 3 minutesAs a company that has continually evolved over the last 40 years to become a leading global force in composite and GRP development and manufacturing, KS Composites is at the very cutting edge of innovation. KS Composites pushes the boundaries in the motorsport, marine, energy, rail, aviation an...
Insert evolution continues to take shape
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:12 - 8 minutesThe introduction of the ISCAR HELIMILL in the 1990s marked a significant milestone for milling tools. It revolutionised the design of milling tools with indexable inserts, establishing a new approach that would shape the industry for years to come. This breakthrough was achieved using a parall...
Guhring builds lifelong relationship based on results
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:09 - 5 minutesLMS Precision Engineering has trusted its tooling supplier for over 35 years. With a relationship that dates back more than three decades, many manufacturers would ask ‘why?’ The simple answer lies in the fact that Midlands-based LMS works with Guhring UK, one the world’s leading manufacturers ...
Green light for Nissan's ambition 2030
MTD Audiobook - March 27, 2024 16:00 - 10 minutesNissan’s devotion to electrification and manufacturing in Britain, is compelling. Huge recent investments underline the company’s green plans and long-term future in the UK. Will domestic suppliers benefit as the switch over to electric bites and new, high-volume components are needed? By Will ...
Episode #57: Loren Singletary, NOV
Oilfield 360 Podcast - March 20, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsIn this episode of The Oilfield 360 Podcast, hosts David de Roode and Jim Wicklund engage with Loren Singletary, a notable figure in the oil and gas industry, who shares his journey from his beginnings in Dallas to achieving strategic executive positions. Loren discusses the ups and downs of the...
Episode #56: Wayne Cutrer, CEO, Downhole Chemical Solutions
Oilfield 360 Podcast - March 06, 2024 14:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsIn this episode of the Oilfield 360 Podcast, Wayne Cutrer, CEO of Downhole Chemical Solutions, shares his journey from growing up in Louisiana with deep family ties in oil and gas to founding and leading a pioneering chemical solutions company in the industry. Recorded at the Thrive Energy Confe...
Episode #55: Ryan Ezell, PhD, President & CEO, Flotek Industries
Oilfield 360 Podcast - February 14, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsIn this engaging episode of the Oilfield 360 Podcast, we welcome Ryan Ezell, PhD, President and CEO of Flotek Industries as our distinguished guest. Ryan shares an insightful journey of innovation, leadership, and the pivotal role of chemistry in advancing the oil and gas industry. Alongside Dav...
Wrapping it up with Todd Amen of ATBS
Drilling Deep with John Kingston - January 29, 2024 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsOn the final edition of Drilling Deep, ATBS President Todd Maiden tells us how drivers did financially in 2023. And host John Kingston signs off with a warning: don't give in to hysteria on oil prices. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
5 axis makes low cost jobs financially viable
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:45 - 5 minutesMany prismatic machining contracts are ideally fulfilled on a 5-axis machining centre that enables components to be produced cost effectively. This is because the two rotary axes are able to position the component quickly and automatically in various orientations for milling and drilling withou...
Making money in your sleep
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:44 - 12 minutesRecently rising to the eighth largest manufacturing economy in the world, the route to continued ascension for UK manufacturing isn’t purely down to the well-publicised need for a national manufacturing strategy or government investment – a large burden of responsibility has to lie firmly at th...
Innovation never stops
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:42 - 6 minutesWhere Innovation Never Stops! is the slogan that appears on the walls of the production facilities at ISCAR headquarters and has been synonymous with the company for several decades. The Covid-19 pandemic did not interrupt the innovation process, and between 2020-2021 ISCAR introduced the NEOLO...
FGP Turbo’s through complex work with Mastercam
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:38 - 4 minutesMade up of three main companies, the FGP Group is a specialist Tier 1 subcontractor that provides services from design and manufacturing to surface coating, heat treatment, assembly, inspection, testing and more. As one of the three companies in the group, FGP Systems Ltd typically produces pri...
Cutting the chatter
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:37 - 10 minutesProductive Machines is on a mission to provide a 15-minute turnaround from receiving data on its cloud-based, artificial intelligence platform to delivering a click-and-play machining protocol that enables manufacturers to machine the best part, faster, first time. John Yates talks to the spin-...
Collaborative R&D helps take the weight off civil aerospace
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:35 - 9 minutesEngineers’ obsession with weight and strength is reaching new heights in the aerospace sector. A range of technologies are being developed for manufacture, many with research centre support, that are designed to cut weight and carbon in aviation. By Will Stirling It was a good landing at the e...
Toolmaker dives into cost savings with Guhring
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:34 - 5 minutesAs a family-run business, Canterbury Tools Ltd has been involved in the design and manufacture of press tools since it was established almost 50 years ago. To optimise the production of specialist press tools, the Wallsall subcontract manufacturer utilises wire EDM machines from Sodick, machine...
Subcontractor gets a grip with ITC
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:32 - 6 minutesLike any fledgling company, the wind of change can blow qui🎧ckly through a business, and this was certainly the case for Shropshire Precision Engineering (SPE) Ltd. Initially set up as a ‘part-time’ business, it wasn’t until Technical Director Robin Chisnall joined the Shrewsbury business in 20...
Starrag HD reduces cycle times by 30%
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:30 - 4 minutesNow available from Starrag Heckert, the STC1250 HD is the latest addition to the renowned STC Series that has been designed to provide unrivalled economy in the machining of the most demanding aerospace structural parts, multi-blades and casings. For those challenging components with long cycle...
Ready for ‘Lift-off’ with OPEN MIND
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:29 - 7 minutesAs the name would suggest, Hill Helicopters is a manufacturer of luxury light helicopters. Since its inception, the company has been on a fascinating journey that is seeing the team of 80+ engineers develop and manufacture a complete aircraft from the ground up. To achieve this, the Rugeley man...
Prima Innovations are shear class
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:27 - 12 minutesIn the November issue of MTD magazine, we reported on our visit to the Prima Power factory in Seinäjoki in Western Finland. We toured the manufacturing facility and were absorbed by the efficiency of the plant. In this issue, we take a closer look at the ‘Tech Centre’ – the showpiece for the de...
Offshore subcontractor takes off with Vulcan
MTD Audiobook - January 26, 2024 15:14 - 4 minutesLocated in Moray, North-East Scotland, an area famous for its Scotch Whisky, Standfast Precision Engineering Ltd provides subcontract manufacturing services that are far more edifying than a tipple. The manufacturer continually invests in machine tools to serve its clients in the offshore and w...
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