The Job Shop Show
A Manufacturing Podcast
We talk with the owners, suppliers, partners, and customers of custom manufacturers. Listen and learn the secrets of top performing job shops. The tools, techniques and backgrounds that have made them successful. All in the quest to raise the bar for custom manufacturing.
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Meet Your Host Jay Jacobs
The host of the Job Shop Show, Jay Jacobs, has a passion for custom part manufacturing and has been immersed in the job shop community since 1987, buying his first 3D Printer in 1989. Jay has sold to job shops, worked for job shops, owned job shops and been a customer of job shops.

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In this inspiring episode of The Job Shop Show, we welcome back Tamea Franco, CEO of Global Metal Finishing, to share her remarkable journey of resilience, leadership, and transformation since the pandemic. Tamea dives into the hard decisions that reshaped her team, the tech innovations modernizing her shop—from sensors and AI to value stream mapping—and her vision for a smarter, more people-centric future in metal finishing. It's a candid and energizing conversation full of insights for job shop owners navigating growth and change.