Get It Before It’s Gone! How to Extract Wisdom from Your Colleagues Before They Retire

Making Chips Podcast for Manufacturing Leaders

There’s so much wisdom my generation needs to extract from our older colleagues before they retire. Many young people in this industry are naive because it takes time and experience to master a trade. I don’t want someone to retire and still have lingering questions I wished I would’ve asked. That’s why we NEED to document the wisdom of our elders. So how do I extract wisdom from my colleagues before they retire? In this episode of MakingChips, we talk through a few ideas you can use to learn as much as you can from your expert machinists.

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Segments

• [3:25] A conversation about retirement
• [5:34] Why we never learned anything from our dads
• [7:21] Manufacturing news: Germany is in a recession
• [12:30] An impromptu ProShop ERP Shoutout
• [15:55] How to approach a conversation with a veteran machinist
• [18:52] Four ways to extract knowledge from veteran machinists
• [25:30] What inspired me to choose this episode’s topic
• [27:54] Don’t miss IMTS in September 2022!

Resources mentioned on this episode

• Get 10% off Xometry
• EU ban on Russian energy would spark ‘sharp recession’ in Germany
• ProShop ERP helps you extract and codify knowledge
• Make sure you’re at IMTS 2022

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