Displaying items 1-10 of 50 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "lab day".
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421: Katherine Steinbock-Dyke: From Girl Scout Cookies to CEO of Whip Mix
April 20th, 2026 | 1 hr 3 mins
3d printing, analog dentistry, analog vs digital, articulators, asiga, australia, bench culture, bench work, business evolution, cad cam, career growth, ceo, collaboration, continuous improvement, corporate culture, customer relationships, dealer network, dental, dental community, dental education, dental equipment, dental industry, dental lab, dental labs, dental manufacturing, dental materials, dental resins, dental schools, dental technician, dental technicians, dental technology, digital dentistry, employee benefits, entrepreneurship, europe, family business, furnaces, future of dentistry, global markets, gypsum, heritage, hr, human resources, hybrid workflow, ids, industry insights, industry trends, innovation, innovation strategy, international business, katherine steinbock-dyke, lab day, lab life, lab owners, lab workflow, laboratory, large labs, latin america, leadership, legacy, management, materials science, mentorship, mixers, model trimmers, networking, next generation, operations, partnerships, podcasts, polymers, product development, production, relevance, small business, storytelling, succession planning, team building, technician, technicians life, trade shows, voices from the bench, whip mix, win program, workflow efficiency
This week we chat with Katherine Steinbock-Dyke of Whip Mix about growing up in a family-run dental company and unexpectedly working her way to CEO. She shares her path from HR and corporate roles into operations, product development, and ultimately leadership—highlighting the balance between tradition and innovation in today’s evolving lab landscape. The episode mixes stories of continuous improvement, digital transitions, and industry travel, all wrapped in the perspective of someone focused on keeping a legacy company relevant for the future.
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418: Lab Day Chicago 2026 Part 4 with Josh Williams, Savannah Elkins, Darin McCue, Vicki Thomas, and Carrie Ling
March 30th, 2026 | 1 hr 16 mins
3d printing, access, additive, burnout, business, buying group, cad, cam, chicago, collaboration, communication, community, competition, consulting, culture, dental, design, digital, durability, efficiency, evolution, flexibles, growth, hiring, industry, innovation, lab day, lab-to-lab, laboratory, leadership, management, materials, mentorship, outsourcing, ownership, partnerships, pricing, production, removable, rpd, sales, savvy, scalability, small labs, strategy, technician, technology, training, vendors, voices from the bench, workflows
Live from LMT Lab Day Chicago, Elvis and Barb capture three conversations that highlight the future of the lab industry. From Savannah and Josh’s fast-moving digital removable workflows at GPS Digital RPD, to Darin McCue’s blunt reminder that labs need strong leadership—not just great technicians and how Saleslift Consulting can help—and finally Vicki and Carrie’s push to empower smaller labs through smarter partnerships and buying power with Savvy Lab Solutions, every discussion points to the same truth: adapting isn’t optional.
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416: Lab Day Chicago 2026 Part 2 with Rob Fletcher, Don Bell & Andreas Klie
March 16th, 2026 | 1 hr 26 mins
aces, ai, automation, bottlenecks, case entry, ceramart, chicago, collaboration, data entry, dental, dental labs, dental technicians, digital workflow, education, efficiency, full arch, fusion bar, implant bars, industry partnerships, innovation, ivoclar, lab day, lab management systems, lab technology, laboratory, lean manufacturing, materials, milling centers, ocr, panthera, photogrammetry, process improvement, productivity, prosthetics, rx scanning, technician, voices from the bench, workflow, zirconia, zirconia veneers
Live from the stage at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2026, the podcast talks with Rob Fletcher about ACES, an AI-powered system that reads handwritten prescriptions and automatically enters cases into a lab management system—helping labs eliminate one of their biggest workflow bottlenecks. Then Don Bell and Andreas Klie join the conversation to discuss the collaboration between Ivoclar and Panthera Dental, exploring how Fusion Bar technology and new materials are streamlining full-arch restorations while expanding education for technicians and clinicians.
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374: Dr. Andrew Turchin Has the Formula For a Smiling Success
May 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
3shape, aesthetics, ceramics, communication, dental, designers, education, emax, exocad, high end, hiring, ivoclar, lab day, laboratory, neck pain, picky patients, porcelain, quality control, teaching, technician, voices from the bench
This week we meet Dr. Andrew Turchin from Aspen Colorado who has developed a mathematical equation that has allowed him and his in-office lab technicians to formulate a simple treatment that creates better smiles.
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360: Escape Some Workload with Dentscape AI - Ryan Axelson, Bill Chou, & Dr. Sylvie Liu
February 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
ai, algorithm, amazon, artificial intelligence, aws, bridges, dental, design, drag and drop, ids, intuitive, lab day, laboratory, learning, margins, meta, podcast, preferences, solve problems, splints, staff shortages, supervised learning, technician, user friendly, voices from the bench
Let's get into what is and what makes AI work when designing crowns. This week brings us the people behind Dentscape AI. Bill Chou, Dr. Sylvie Liu, and Ryan Axelson all talk about what it takes to design 100 crowns in 10 minutes
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359: Milling a Better Experience with Keith Clements, Nick Pizzo, & Mo Whitlock from Amann Girrbach
February 10th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
ag360, amazon, artex articulator, austria, camera, champagne, chicago, clinical, culture, dealers, dental, distribution, energy, experience, hand mill, in stock, lab day, laboratory, matik, matron, millercoors, milling machines, motion, party, podcast, prime, pucks, raving fans, remote repair, service, teamwork, technician, voices from the bench, zirconia
Amann Girrbach is known for its great mills, but a new team of Keith Clements, Nick Pizzo, (along with an ol' favorite) Maurice "Mo" Whitlock come on to talk about taking the customer experience and service to a new level.
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355: Jonny Jakson is Bleeding Purple with exocad and Evolve
January 13th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins
buffalo, cad/cam, collaboration, dental, dentist design, design, exocad, family, full arch, hard work, high school, innovative, ivotion, jig, lab day, laboratory, photogrammetry, podcast, purple, sameday, scanning, screws, sponge, super user, technician, training, uncle, updates, vhf mills, voices from the bench
This week we welcome Jonny Jakson, known as "Jonny Exocad," to explore his transformative journey in the dental tech industry. From his family's legacy in dental labs to his innovative work with Exocad, Johnny shares insights on blending traditional and digital workflows. Learn how he's empowering clinicians and training the next generation of dental techs.
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353: Dr. Nilo Hernandez & John Orfanidis are Solving Full Arch Problems with the SiOS System
December 30th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
analog, beacons, best for patient, chairside, dental, easy, eliminates steps, eyeballing, full arch, guided, implants, lab day, laboratory, matchmaker, mill, occlusion, partnership, pmma, podcast, printing, problems, quest, solving, super gp, technician, titanium bar, voices from the bench, workflow
A dentist and technician have gotten together to streamline the process of restoring full arch implants. Dr. Nilo Hernandez & John Orfanidis have created the SiOS Dental System that allows you to streamline your workflow with any implant system.
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342: The Right People, The Right Time with Tom Heusing, Bob Hadley, and Erica DiManna from Aidite North America
October 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
china, dealer summit, dental, europe, exocad, expectations, fitness, full gambit, furnaces, grow 3x, history, inlab, kol, lab day, laboratory, marketing, material technology company, mills, norbert, nowak, podcast, printers, right time, samples, scanners, scientist, sirona, smile plan, social media, stock exchange, technician, training, translucency, voices from the bench, youtube, zirconia, zubler
This week we meet most of the team for Aidite North America. Tom Heusing, Bob Hadley, and Erica DiManna come on to talk about running a successful division of Adite by providing quality products and working with good people and partners.
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318: Lab Day Chicago 2024 Act 5 with Carrie Ling, Randi James, David Lesh, Nitasha Rizvi, Beth Brown, Lola Welch, & Julia Glancey
April 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
3d arm, chicago, cost of good sales, dental, dso, friends, gross profit margins, harvard, husband / wife, hygiene, international, ivoclar, journey, lab day, laboratory, ladies of the mill, learning, london, on stage, podcast, profitability, roundtables, sales, school, sprint ray, support, surgery new york, teaching, technician, technician of the year, travel, voices from the bench
We wrap up all of Lab Day Chicago 2024 with a collection of 4 conversations from the Ivoclar Ballroom. Carrie Ling & Randi James talk about friendship, David Lesh talks about profit, Nitasha Rizvi talks about teaching at Harvard, and Beth Brown, Lola Welch, and Julia Glancey chat about coming to America for the show.