Manufacturing & Technology Conference & Expo 2018

Highlights

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May 11, 2018
The mega chipmaker can drop new production equipment into its factories and be up and running in five minutes, thanks to a maniacal focus and investment in building and implementing...
Radek Hofman
Scale with Speed and agility balanced
May 10, 2018
Business Process Management and the philosophy “Think Big, Start Small,” helped guide Quad Graphics to a staggering increase of $256M in free cash flow per year. And they’re just...
IW M&T SUGGS-2
May 10, 2018
Toyota’s transformation into a mobility company will rely on a purpose-driven workforce.
Chris Mapes
May 10, 2018
Chris Mapes talks about the company's three-part approach to developing the workforce pipeline: education, automation, and collaboration.
Bill Ruh
May 9, 2018
Bill Ruh stresses the "mastery of operations performance ... across a multitude of machines and people."
MegaBots
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April 14, 2018
Making manufacturing history starts with self-drive, ambition, and a little luck. MegaBots found it also takes the right partners, tempering expectations and getting up after ...
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April 14, 2018
A new research project by IndustryWeek and MESA International is uncovering both common ground and controversy among smart manufacturing initiatives, priorities, and tactics. ...
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Employee Engagement
April 13, 2018
"Companies are beginning to use lean to develop a culture of continuous improvement and actually engaging people doing the work to develop standards for recruiting," says Marc...
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April 12, 2018
The cost of poor engagement is minimum effort by your workforce. You need more, says Martinrea's Mark Whitten.