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How to Capitalize on CMMC Breathing Room: Stay Sharp Episode 146

In Stay Sharp Episode 146, CMMC Paused, Not Cancelled: Why Contractors Shouldn’t Stop Now, co-hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott welcome returning guest Steve Nichols, the head of Razorleaf Government Solutions. The podcast has covered the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) in past episodes, Understanding the Cybersecurity Maturity Model and How SMBs Can Break into the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), and this week’s topic is the recent CMMC pause and what organizations should do about it.
Juliann Grant
July 31, 2026

What AI Can Do For You: Stay Sharp Episode 99

In Stay Sharp Episode 99, The AI Revolution in Digital Engineering, co-hosts Jonathan Scott and Juliann Grant are joined by Alex Bruskin, an AI expert with 25 years’ experience in PLM and digital engineering. Much of Alex’s work focuses on optimizing the connection between IT and engineering, including data transformation and validation, which makes him the perfect guest to discuss what’s really happening with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital engineering for manufacturing.
Juliann Grant
September 5, 2025

Digital Twins Could Be Helping Everywhere: Stay Sharp Episode 87

In Stay Sharp Episode 87, Digital Twin Use Cases, co-hosts Jonathan Scott and Juliann Grant are back with a new topic in Razorleaf’s series on digital twins. This time, they’re discussing concrete examples of twins of all kinds in physical, virtual, and even cinematic form. Their returning guest is Dr. Patrick Hillberg, who has decades of experience in PLM digitalization and advanced manufacturing. The trio cover real-life situations and explain the twins behind them.
Juliann Grant
June 13, 2025

Integration is the Key to the Product Digital Thread

Tech-Clarity’s new eBook, Integrating Data and Processes Across the Product Digital Thread, argues that the product digital thread is an essential component of digital transformation in manufacturing industries. Moreover, it contends that the product digital thread “simply is not possible without integration.”
Juliann Grant
September 26, 2024

PMs Are the Glue Your Projects Need: Stay Sharp Episode 49

In Episode 49 of Razorleaf’s Stay Sharp podcast, Why Do You Need a Project Manager?, co-hosts Jen Ferello and Jonathan Scott welcome Razorleaf colleagues Melissa Bussard and Jeff Meyer, both of whom bring years of experience managing services projects at Razorleaf and elsewhere. The foursome takes a deep dive into the role of the project manager (PM), including why manufacturing organizations should have one running their projects, what PMs handle throughout a project, and more.
Juliann Grant
September 16, 2024

MBE Insights for Manufacturers: Stay Sharp Episode 33

Episode 33 of Razorleaf’s Stay Sharp podcast, Model Based Challenges in Manufacturing, features our co-hosts Jen Ferello and Jonathan Scott interviewing aerospace manufacturing veteran Jeff Gleeson, who possesses more than three decades of experience using and innovating production business practices at Lockheed Martin. The trio dig deep into what the transformation from traditional approaches to model-based enterprise (MBE) can involve, the change of culture or mindset required, and the biggest challenges to the transformation.
Juliann Grant
May 24, 2024

Successful PLM Projects Start Here: Stay Sharp Episode 19

Hosts Jonathan Scott and Jen Ferello welcome special guest Eric Smith, Razorleaf’s VP of Services, for a deep dive into the complexity of product lifecycle management (PLM) projects. They discuss discuss what can go wrong with PLM projects, common mistakes and how to avoid them, as well as how the same pitfalls can occur to any enterprise-level project, not just PLM.
Juliann Grant
March 7, 2024
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