The Skills Crisis No One’s Talking About | Drew Allen

About This Episode

What if the future of manufacturing is actually a return to the past?

In this episode, Aarish sits down with Drew Allen, CEO of Grace Technologies, to explore why American and Chinese manufacturing dominance came from operators who also designed the machines and what happened when we lost that craft.

They dig into:

– How the PLC dumbed down the factory floor operator
– Why creativity needs to be democratised beyond the R&D lab
– Why hard technology has finally become a serious investable asset class
– The skills gap threatening Western industrial resurgence
– Why the UK keeps building world-class companies and then losing them
– How adventure lies on the other side of yes

Drew leads Grace Technologies, an electrical safety and predictive maintenance company operating across 60 countries, sits on the advisory board of Atom Power Inc., and hosts his own podcast, The Factory Futurist.

Find Drew Allen online at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allendrew/
Twitter: https://x.com/GraceTechIA
Grace Technologies: https://gracetechnologies.com

This episode is sponsored by EmergeOne, fractional CFOs for venture backed tech startups from Seed to Series B.
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