About this episode

Chris Power discusses his journey and the impact of Hadrian on American manufacturing.

A few years ago, I was lunching with a young Australian man who told me he hoped to modernize manufacturing in America. This man seemed enthusiastic and ambitious, but I must confess to holding some serious doubts about the dramatic scope of his plans and his ability to pull them off. This man was Chris Power , and, well, he did the thing. He’s the founder and CEO of Hadrian, which has a growing empire of mega factories packed full of machines that cut, bend and weld metal. Hadrian has become a workhorse for defense and aerospace and other big industries. It has used software to make it easier for people to control many machines at once and to keep track of the manufacturing process in a bid to add more quality control to industry. Power has become one of the main players in the Reindustrialization movement and one of its more direct and critical voices. We did this interview at Hadrian’s headquarters in Los Angeles with factories humming behind us, and we’ll have a video with all the machines soon on our YouTube channel . Chris and I get into his history, Hadrian’s history and the state of American manufacturing. To celebrate AMERICAN MANUFACTURING and AMERICA and THE WORLD CUP…

People in this episode

Host: Ashlee Vance

Guest: Chris Power

Topics covered

• American manufacturing
• Reindustrialization
• technology in manufacturing
• defense industry
• aerospace industry

Keywords

• manufacturing
• Hadrian
• Chris Power
• technology
• Reindustrialization
• defense
• aerospace

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hadrian

Places: America, Los Angeles

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