They did it again! 🎉 Codonics is officially a two-time TAG Award winner, and today we’re celebrating the incredible team behind the innovative Safe Waste System (SWS)!

Join Mike Kohlberg, General Manager, and Cristy Berg, Vice President, OEM, Marketing, Communications, and Global Trade Shows, on the TAG’D Beyond the Award podcast as they walk us through how they cracked one of the toughest nuts in healthcare: controlled substance waste.

Learn how the SWS brings safety, simplicity, and total accountability to the operating room, streamlining the entire medication workflow, from preparation to waste and reconciliation, in seconds.

Get ready to be inspired by a company that proves the most practical innovations are often the most impactful!

TAG’D: Beyond the Award brings you Beyond the Booth live from the floor of MD&M South in partnership with Informa Markets.

Ever wonder how the biggest names in manufacturing ensure their quality control is powder-to-finish perfect? On this episode, host Justin Starbird is joined by Aimee Ozarchuk, Southeast Business Sales Manager for Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions, to break down the massive scope of Zeiss’s inspection equipment, from nanometer-level microscopy to 100% in-line automotive part inspection.

This conversation goes beyond the booth as Aimee reveals the excitement around their brand-new Quality Excellence Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, a true hands-on customer center designed to solve complex applications in X-ray, CMM, and micro-abilities.

Plus, get the inside scoop on Aimee's career journey from inside sales to leading the entire Southeast region, and how customer demands are driving their innovation roadmap toward AI, Industry 4.0, and merging critical data sets.

Tune in to discover how Zeiss continues to redefine precision and partnership in the ever-evolving world of industrial manufacturing!

Ever wonder what it takes to build something that literally saves lives, one microscopic component at a time?

In this Beyond the Booth episode from MD&M South in Charlotte, brought to you in partnership with Informa Markets, we're stepping off the main stage and onto the shop floor (well, the trade show floor) with Mike Wang from Braxton Manufacturing. Braxton is the world's quiet expert in deep-draw technology, a process for forming metal in which the length exceeds the diameter, similar to a lipstick tube or bullet casing. They specialize in turning impossibly small pieces of metal into critical, life-saving components for MedTech (including dental and ophthalmic surgical parts), aerospace, and electronics. These high-precision, tight-tolerance parts are essential components within larger finished devices.

Mike walks us through their incredibly niche, high-stakes world, covering:

• The Power of Precision: How Braxton achieves tight-tolerance, nano-scale parts that are too complex to be made anywhere else, securing them as long-term partners for giants in regulated industries.

• Innovation on Demand: Why true innovation isn't just internal R&D, but a constant, collaborative problem-solving process driven by customer needs.

• The AI vs. Physical Reality Check: Mike's candid take on why AI is a great supplement but can never replace the hands-on expertise of a skilled engineering team in complex manufacturing.

• Beyond the Email: The essential role of trade shows (like MD&M South) in forging "customers for life" by building face-to-face trust in an impersonal B2B world.

If your business relies on high-quality manufacturing, or if you just love hearing about companies operating at the absolute cutting edge of their niche, this episode is a deep dive you won't want to miss.