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IEN Radio

Radio for manufacturing and engineering professionals. New industrial products, news and technical articles.

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Update frequency
every day
Average duration
2 minutes
Episodes
942
Years Active
2019 - 2025
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Listen: Verizon Engineer Dupes Grainger Out of Nearly $1M

Listen: Verizon Engineer Dupes Grainger Out of Nearly $1M

In another example illustrating just how prevalent the threat of wire fraud is to manufacturing companies, a newly-reported case in Ohio involved a former Verizon employee duping a major industrial d…

00:02:03  |   Wed 09 Feb 2022
Listen: New Jeep Plant Addresses Odor Problem

Listen: New Jeep Plant Addresses Odor Problem

It’s a brand new plant, and it stinks.

That’s the problem Stellantis has been facing, after more than 50 odor complaints have been submitted in reference to the automaker’s one-year-old Jeep plant in …

00:01:56  |   Thu 13 Jan 2022
Listen: Ultra-Luxury Automakers Post Record Sales

Listen: Ultra-Luxury Automakers Post Record Sales

This past year could be charitably described as “mixed” for the automotive industry.

After what turned out to be a relatively brief blip due to the outbreak of COVID-19 the previous year, consumer dem…

00:01:53  |   Tue 11 Jan 2022
Listen: Apple Places iPhone Factory On Probation

Listen: Apple Places iPhone Factory On Probation

Apple took issue with how one of its iPhone factories in southern India was being run and placed the Foxconn plant “on probation.” BBC News reports Apple’s action came after the protesting of food po…

00:01:31  |   Thu 06 Jan 2022
Listen: Sony Introduces Second EV Concept

Listen: Sony Introduces Second EV Concept

An unlikely candidate has immersed itself in the electric vehicle industry. Two years ago, Sony, the company known for electronics such as cameras, televisions and headphones, announced its Vision-S …

00:01:37  |   Thu 06 Jan 2022
Listen: Toyota Overtakes GM as Top U.S. Automaker

Listen: Toyota Overtakes GM as Top U.S. Automaker

For the first time in nearly a century, General Motors won’t be able to claim the title of “America’s top automaker.”

Instead, that designation — for this year, anyway — will belong to a Japanese comp…

00:01:45  |   Thu 06 Jan 2022
Listen: Ring to Identify ‘Suspicious’ People by Voice, Fingerprint or Odor

Listen: Ring to Identify ‘Suspicious’ People by Voice, Fingerprint or Odor

Let’s all take a moment to thank Amazon, and their Ring doorbell division, for looking at ways to keep us and the packages we purchase from them safe … by profiling people via their eye color, finger…

00:02:18  |   Thu 06 Jan 2022
Listen: Engineering Company Owner Gets Prison in Explosion Probe

Listen: Engineering Company Owner Gets Prison in Explosion Probe

The owner of a civil engineering firm has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from an explosion at his company’s facility more than three years ago.

The case began after…

00:01:44  |   Mon 06 Dec 2021
'Toxic Culture' Still Present at UAW

'Toxic Culture' Still Present at UAW

An independent, court-appointed monitor of the United Autoworkers Union says the UAW has “fallen short” on the many reform efforts laid out in a settlement with prosecutors last year.

The union had be…

00:02:14  |   Mon 06 Dec 2021
Cadillac Culls Hundreds of Dealers in Shift to EVs

Cadillac Culls Hundreds of Dealers in Shift to EVs

Cadillac enjoyed decades as the nation’s leading luxury auto brand — so much so that its name is still synonymous with the finest in pretty much any field you care to mention.

But in recent decades, a…

00:01:41  |   Mon 06 Dec 2021
Dodge to Hire 'Chief Donut Maker'

Dodge to Hire 'Chief Donut Maker'

For that highly nuanced person who wants to combine executive level business savvy with down-and-dirty racing tricks, Dodge just might have the job for you.

The maker of the Challenger Hellcat and oth…

00:01:56  |   Mon 06 Dec 2021
Listen: Domestic Automakers Rank Last in Reliability

Listen: Domestic Automakers Rank Last in Reliability

Consumers in the market for a new car have faced a unique challenge this year: because of shortages of critical components, scarcity on dealer lots has resulted in less choice. But before you concede…

00:02:19  |   Mon 06 Dec 2021
Factory Workers File Complaints After Being 'Treated Like Animals'

Factory Workers File Complaints After Being 'Treated Like Animals'

Employees of a Refresco bottling factory in Wharton, New Jersey are voicing their displeasure. 

Yahoo! News reports the workers filed federal complaints with OSHA to report unsafe conditions. The empl…

00:01:41  |   Mon 06 Dec 2021
WHO Warns of Potential Vaccine Syringe Shortage Next Year

WHO Warns of Potential Vaccine Syringe Shortage Next Year

The World Health Organization announced the possibility of a global shortage of syringes in 2022 for the COVID-19 vaccine in the 1 billion to 2 billion range.

UN News reported a WHO senior adviser, Li…

00:01:54  |   Mon 06 Dec 2021
Listen: Thanksgiving Dinner Costs Up 14%

Listen: Thanksgiving Dinner Costs Up 14%

Amid rising food costs nearly across the board, the typical Thanksgiving feast will be considerably more expensive than a year ago.

The American Farm Bureau Federation’s 36th annual Thanksgiving Items…

00:01:57  |   Mon 06 Dec 2021
Listen: Musk Says Rocket Engine Issues Threaten to Bankrupt SpaceX

Listen: Musk Says Rocket Engine Issues Threaten to Bankrupt SpaceX

On a day when a large share of Americans seek to recover from Thanksgiving excess, Elon Musk effectively ordered his employees back to their posts in Hawthorne, California, in order to address a “dis…

00:01:46  |   Mon 06 Dec 2021
Cybertruck Specs Disappear Off Tesla's Website

Cybertruck Specs Disappear Off Tesla's Website

Tesla’s Cybertruck is hard to forget.

In late 2019, Elon Musk took the stage to unveil his company’s latest design, a futuristic, boxy EV truck described by observers as a “large metallic trapezoid.”

I…

00:02:21  |   Mon 08 Nov 2021
Government Lab Decrypts Tesla Driving Data

Government Lab Decrypts Tesla Driving Data

In the seven years since Tesla first debuted the advanced driver-assist technology known as Autopilot, the system has made headlines over everything from ill-advised driver behavior to deadly crashes…

00:01:37  |   Mon 08 Nov 2021
Companies Are Using AI to Monitor Worker Performance

Companies Are Using AI to Monitor Worker Performance

A computer vision startup claims it has the solution to improving fast-food worker performance. The startup, Agot AI, comes from Pittsburgh and its plan involves the installation of cameras in fast f…

00:01:26  |   Mon 08 Nov 2021
Architect Resigns from Billionaire’s ‘Psychological Experiment’

Architect Resigns from Billionaire’s ‘Psychological Experiment’

Charles Munger isn’t as well-known as Warren Buffett, for whom he has long served as right-hand man at the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.

But the 97-year-old, like the Oracle of Omaha, is a Nebraska…

00:01:50  |   Mon 08 Nov 2021
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