In this exclusive Manufacturing Talk Radio interview, hosts Lewis Weiss and Amy Nicklaus sit down with ISM Manufacturing PMI Chair Susan Spence to discuss the latest ISM Manufacturing Report released June 1, 2026. The group break down the key data points impacting the global supply chain and what the effects of that might mean. To shed light on the report’s crucial findings, we speak with Susan Spence, a preeminent authority within manufacturing. Key Insights Reviewed In The Latest Report Demand and New Orders Production Trends Supply Chain Dynamics Challenges Facing the Manufacturing Sector Tariff Impacts Labor Market Constraints Global Economic Uncertainty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BREAKING: June ISM Manufacturing PMI  

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G'day everyone. This is Lou Weiss with Manufacturing Talk Radio with my co-host, Amy Niklas. Hi. Hi, Amy. G'day. And we're here with Susan Spence as the co-chair, I'm sorry, the chair of ISM Manufacturing. Welcome. Thank you. Happy to be here. And thanks for coming back. Okay.

We have the report for June and we're going to get right to that. But first, I'd like you to give a 30 second explanation about the 19 since 1931 you've been sending out these reports for people so that you can create a report. So tell us just a little bit about that. Since 1931 someone, not me, I was not even born for 30 more years.

Yeah, the report has been out, I think, since the Hoover administration and my understanding of the history. Yes, yes. The president wanted some indication of the economic health of the country in the middle of the depression or something like that. So really interesting history over 80 years.

And what happens is once a month the ISM organization sends out a survey to hundreds of manufacturing sector panelists in 18 sectors of the US economy. And these folks take a survey, answer questions about what's going on with employment and prices and production and exports and orders and backlog relative to the month before.

BREAKING: June ISM Manufacturing PMI

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The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

BREAKING: June ISM Manufacturing PMI

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.