Made in Iowa Highlights Iowa’s Manufacturing Powerhouse – LMT

LMT‑AT’s founders sat down with Leisa Fox of “Made in Iowa: The Manufacturing Podcast” to talk about building LMT brand products the hard‑use way, the LMT way

Listen to two of the three founding members of LMT Advanced Technologies, Jim & Mike, talk about a host of topics ranging from things people should know about the defense industry to how contract & customer requests help mold the LMT prototypes into the productionized models available to both government and commercial users.

The podcast can be found on Spotify through the
“Made in Iowa, The Manufacturing Podcast”
channel under the most recent episode titled
“Made In Iowa: Precision Under Pressure
– Inside Iowa’s Defense Manufacturing Powerhouse“,
by clicking the hyper linked text above or thru the Spotify embedded video provided below:

An outline of topics discussed in the podcast are provided below:

• How important work LMT does is to protect nation’s soldiers
• Things people should know about defense industry
• Karl Lewis: Impact on LMT brand, products, and policies
• Precision required to produce products LMT does
• How have tolerance and requirements changed over time for LMT products?
• How contract requests and commercial preference molds the products
• Existing LMT customers
• How contract tender evaluation works – from request to order shipment
• Advantage of LMT over the competition
• Workforce dynamics
• Silver tsunami: potential impact & preemptive actions to counter
• Growth from 2015 to date & move to Iowa facility
• Legislative regulation of LMT products
• Testing standards
• Quality standards
• Future of LMT
• Future concerns

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