{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Additive Snack","title":"The Manufacturing Comeback: Dean Bartles on Defense, AI, and the Next Industrial Revolution ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3468,"description":"Host Fabian Alefeld interviews Dean Bartles, President and CEO of the Manufacturing Technology Deployment Group (behind NCDMM, Advanced Manufacturing International, and America Makes), about manufacturing’s evolution, defense industrial base challenges, and additive manufacturing. Bartles recounts his career from shop-floor machining and industrial engineering to international defense manufacturing programs and 31 years through successive owners culminating in General Dynamics, then leading NCDMM and forming a parent organization to expand technology deployment. They discuss consolidation and contracting barriers that pushed small/medium firms out of defense, productivity gains from automation, reshoring momentum driven by tariffs and new investment, and workforce shortages and training pathways via trades, community colleges, and SME/Tooling U. Bartles highlights AI for process monitoring and adaptive control in laser powder bed fusion, the promise of low-cost desktop FFF for drones, the need for shared data and improved repeatability, and sustainability efforts including the Additive Manufacturing Green Trade Association. \n \n00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro \n \n02:54 Dean Manufacturing Origins \n \n04:18 Global Defense Career Path \n \n06:05 Leading NCDMM and America Makes \n \n10:44 Defense Base Decline and Industry 4.0 \n \n18:14 Reshoring and Global Models \n \n22:17 AI Capital and Process Control \n \n35:25 Open Data and Repeatability Challenge \n \n38:24 Defense Adoption and Drone Boom \n \n44:08 Workforce Pathways and Community Colleges \n \n50:04 Sustainability and Greener AM \n \n54:27 Closing ABL Always Be Learning ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/27ZYLdyZ8MHWZlxUWh87sIQyB5ttPhwcP3_CmUBDsv0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE2NDk0LzE3MDU5/NDgwMjItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}