# Building a Digital Backbone for Your Manufacturing Business w/ Paul Van Metre

- Show: [The Manufacturing Executive](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive)
- Published: 2024-04-16
- Length: 39m
- Episode: 201
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2024-04-16-building-a-digital-backbone-for-your-manufacturing-business-w-paul-van-metre
- Listen: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-manufacturing-executive#episode-1279cd52-4809-4600-954e-f6a207aae9d2

## Summary

Paul Van Metre, co-founder of ProShop ERP, explains how integrating ERP, MES, and QMS into a single digital backbone protects manufacturers from the loss of tribal knowledge and enables scalable growth. He details how this unified system streamlines compliance audits, citing a record-breaking 2-week AS9100 certification, and reduces the operational burden on business owners. Van Metre emphasizes the importance of change management and standardized processes to help leaders shift from working 'in' the business to 'on' the business, allowing for better delegation and strategic focus.

## Chapters

- [0:36](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2024-04-16-building-a-digital-backbone-for-your-manufacturing-business-w-paul-van-metre#t=36) Introduction: Paul Van Metre and ProShop ERP
- [5:39](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2024-04-16-building-a-digital-backbone-for-your-manufacturing-business-w-paul-van-metre#t=339) ProShop's Evolution from Machine Shop to Software
- [9:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2024-04-16-building-a-digital-backbone-for-your-manufacturing-business-w-paul-van-metre#t=558) ERP Implementation Challenges: Change Management and Fit
- [13:16](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2024-04-16-building-a-digital-backbone-for-your-manufacturing-business-w-paul-van-metre#t=796) Capturing Tribal Knowledge and the Silver Tsunami
- [20:48](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2024-04-16-building-a-digital-backbone-for-your-manufacturing-business-w-paul-van-metre#t=1248) Integrated QMS and Rapid AS9100 Certification
- [30:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2024-04-16-building-a-digital-backbone-for-your-manufacturing-business-w-paul-van-metre#t=1803) Working On the Business: Delegation and Leadership

## Topics

- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [Quality & yield](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/quality-and-yield)
- [Leadership, teams & culture](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/leadership-and-culture)
- [Design for manufacturing & NPI](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/design-for-manufacturing)
- [Certification & compliance](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/certification-and-compliance)

## Most relevant to

companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- ProShop ERP (product)
- Pro CNC (company)
- Gorilla 76 (company)
- AS9100 (other)
- ISO (other)
- CMMC (other)
- MES (other)
- QMS (other)
- ERP (other)
- Machine Shop Mastery (product)
- Industrial Marketing Live (product)
- E-Myth Revisited (other)
- EOS (other)

## Related episodes from other shows

- [Using Business Process as a Differentiator with Paul Van Metre](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2020-12-29-using-business-process-as-a-differentiator-with-paul-van-metre) (Manufacturing Happy Hour)
- [195: 3 Characteristics of Machine Shops That Adopt Technology and Thrive with Paul Van Metre](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2024-07-23-195-3-characteristics-of-machine-shops-that-adopt-technology-and-thrive-with-pau) (Manufacturing Happy Hour)
- [What Happens When Every Action Becomes A Data Point: EMS@C-Level with FermionX MD Will Patrick](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2025-10-29-what-happens-when-every-action-becomes-a-data-point-ems-c-level-with-fermionx-md) (EMS@C-LEVEL)
- [BONUS: A Digital Transformation Story from Rockwell Automation](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2023-06-06-bonus-a-digital-transformation-story-from-rockwell-automation) (Manufacturing Happy Hour)
- [End-to-End Digital Transformation with Bob Murphy and Scott Feldmann](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2020-07-14-end-to-end-digital-transformation-with-bob-murphy-and-scott-feldmann) (Manufacturing Happy Hour)

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