Displaying 4 items of Voices from The Bench with the tag "scalability".
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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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417: Lab Day Chicago 2026 Part 3 with Frederic Rapp, Casey Baldwin, & Darin Lockaby
March 23rd, 2026 | 1 hr 12 mins
3shape, 510k, abs, abutments, aesthetics, ai, ai assistant, ai in dentistry, alerts, analytics, api, australia, automation, automation tools, ballroom, barb, blanks, bob cohen, business development, calibration, cam software, canada, case tracking, casey baldwin, ceramart, chairside, characterization, collaboration, communication, consolidation, cost of acquisition, craftsmanship, cross-selling, crown ceram, custom abutments, customer behavior, customer retention, customer service, darren lockerby, dashboards, data, database, dental, dental community, dental lab, dental technician, dental wings, des, digital dentistry, digital dentures, digital workflow, dry milling, education, efficiency, elvis, emax, engineering, entrepreneurship, europe labs, exocad, fda compliance, field work, fixed, follow-up, frédéric rapp, future tech, global industry, greatlab, hyperdent, icortica, implant workflow, implants, in-house production, industry trends, innovation, insights, integration, intraoral scanner, ios, ivoclar, ivotion, lab day energy, lab efficiency, lab growth, lab life, lab management system, labday, laboratory, leadership, live podcast, lms, magic touch, manufacturing, margins, materials, mechanical engineering, milling, networking, notes, notifications, oem, onboarding, open implants, opportunity tracking, outsourcing, partnership, plug and play, pm7, pnp, price pressure, private equity, productivity, profitability, programill 7, quality control, rapid prototyping, real-time data, relationships, removable, reporting, reps, revenue growth, rob nazel, sales strategy, scalability, scaling, scheduling, software, stock abutments, tasks, team building, technician, technology, tie bases, training, turnaround time, upselling, us labs, validation, voice input, voices from the bench, wet milling, workflow, workflow control, zirconia
Live from the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day 2026, Elvis and Barb talk with Frederic Rapp about his journey from a small family lab to scaling a 150-person operation and now helping labs unlock their data with icortica. Then Casey Baldwin (Ivoclar) and Darin Lockaby (DESS) join to break down their new plug-and-play workflow for milling FDA-compliant abutments in-house—giving labs more control and better margins.
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377: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 3 with Dr. Manish Chhabra & Tobias Specht
June 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 25 secs
3shape, cad, cam, cerec, consulting, customer service, dental, dentist, design center, digident, digital dentures, dubai, emax, exocad, faster, follow up, hard reline, headset, ids, india, ivoclar, ivotion, laboratory, milling center, muscle memory, patients, prevention and care, printable wax, programill, quality, reline, repairing, scalability, scaling, speakers, technician, technology, training, unlearn, virtual reality, voices from the bench, vr
This week Elvis and Barb bring you two more conversation from the exocad booth at IDS 2025. First up is Dr. Manish Chhabra who ran a 300 person design center in India and is now training people with VR. Then we chat with Tobias Specht from Ivoclar all about what they have been working on, what’s new, and how they do a massive show in Germany.
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323: Answering Opportunity with Thomas Brainsky
June 3rd, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
aptitude, attitude, babies, carbon, dental, different, digital jay collins, employees, entrepreneur, failures, faster, hired, laboratory, lessons, marketing, not my job, podcast, problem solver, salespeople, scalability, taxes, technician, trucking, twins, voices from the bench, warped sense of humor, wellness program
This week we get to know Entrepreneur Thomas Brainsky. Thomas bought a lab 12 years ago with no knowledge of dental labs. He has since sold his lab and shares everything he learned along the way. The good and the bad.