Built to help you solve problems and seize opportunities within six strategic business practices—nine if you count our inaugural, co-located ID&E Show targeted to engineering professionals—the IndustryWeek Manufacturing & Technology Show offers you the information you need to take your business to the next level.
But if you’re specifically looking to kick-start your workforce challenges--recruiting new talent, training to bridge the skills gap, engaging and retaining high-value employees--you have a jam-packed 2½ days of keynotes, plant tours and small group seminars to choose from.
Look for the IW Best Plants Award Ribbon for the sessions featuring the 2016 IW Best Plants Winners.
See the full IW M&T Show agenda for a broader view--or check out our other strategic business practice curricula:
- Adapt the latest digital technologies—3-D printing, IoT/SMART, AI/VR, robotics and more.
- Solve your workforce recruiting, training, engagement and retention challenges
- Perfect or learn the latest leadership best practices—Hoshin Kanri, Toyota KATA, Leader Standard Work and more.
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Learn and exchange ways to translate new emerging technologies into real-world engineering applications.
Workforce Highlights
Monday, May 8 - Morning
Workshop
9 am to 12 pm
- Developing Creative and Alternative Programs for the Incumbent Workforce
In this three-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to create strategic partnerships with universities, participate in a visioning session to identify workforce needs of tomorrow and get a minicourse on how to help technical professionals hone their presentation skills.
Plant Tour
8:30 am to 11:30 am (tour is offered again at 12:30)
- Lincoln Electric Facility
Learn how piecework, one of the four pillars of Lincoln Electric’s successful Incentive Management, promotes commitment to quality throughout this high-volume, high-mix facility.
Monday, May 8 - Afternoon
Lunch
11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Grab a boxed lunch with your new-found colleagues from a morning tour or before you go to your afternoon plant tour or workshop.
Workshop
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
- Preparing Today’s Multigenerational Workforce for Smart Manufacturing
Learn how to get your Baby Boomer, Millennial and soon Centennial employees up to speed with SMART Manufacturing, with knowledge mapping and transfer, skill assessment, and leveraging each generation's strengths.
Plant Tour
12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
- Lincoln Electric Facility Tour
Learn how piecework, one of the four pillars of Lincoln Electric’s successful Incentive Management, promotes commitment to quality throughout this high-volume, high-mix facility.
Tour the Expo Hall
2 pm – 6:30 pm
Workforce Partners
Stop by to visit with organizations that IndustryWeek is proud to call our “Workforce” Expo Partners:
- AVO Training Institute
- Leading2Lean
- Lean Enterprise Institute
- Lean Six Sigma Experts – LSSE
- TBM Consulting Group
- Tooling U-SME
- Latest Technologies
Compete in the drone racing circuit, go head-to-head with industrial robots in pick-and-place contests, explore virtual manufacturing worlds, and experience the power of augmented reality while browsing the latest traditional gear and tools designed to add new productivity and quality to their operations.
- Vendors & Suppliers
Meet with other vendors and organizations that stand ready to help you implement technology, train and engage your workforce, and help you more efficiently and effectively operate your facilities.
3 pm – 3:30 pm
- Network with the next-generation of manufacturing professionals
Meet—and maybe begin recruiting—the world’s best up-and-coming robotics professionals, the International Champions of the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship—the team that bested 20,000 others in the 2016 competition.
Test-drive the team’s winning robot.
Cocktail Reception
5 pm – 6:30 pm
Network with like-minded peers
See and talk shop with old friends and meet new potential partners and peers.
Tuesday, May 9
9 am to 10 am
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
Apprenticeships
- How to Build a Successful Apprenticeship Program
Executives from two different companies—Sherwin Williams and Stober Drives--show how they developed successful apprenticeship and on-the-job training programs.
12:30 pm to 1:45 pmFeatured Keynote: Toyota Production System
- Insights from the Inside of the Toyota Production System—and its Continual Evolution
The President & CEO of Toyota Material Handling North America reveals the inside scoop on how Toyota continues to evolve and strengthen the TPS.
2 pm – 3 pm
- Get advice from the IW Best Plants
In this interactive session featuring audience Q&A, you drive the agenda. Three of the 2016 IW Best Plants winners will answer your questions about the strategies and best practices that helped them achieve operational excellence and business success.
Workforce Leadership
- How to Align Goals, People & Systems for Sustainable Success
Leaders from Revlon provide you with a system that works.
Workforce Development
Coming Soon!
4:15 pm to 5:15 pm
Training
- Training a New Super-Plant Workforce
Learn how Great Lakes Cheese got new employees up to speed quickly at their new packaging and distribution facility. The key: identifying best practices and documenting them in Standard Operating Procedures.
Tuesday, May 9 – Evening
Special Networking Night Out
6:30 pm to ??
Kick back and talk over what you’ve learned the first day (or not!) at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Enjoy great food, music and private browsing of the Rock Hall's iconic collection.
Wednesday, May 10
- How to Effectively Engage Employee
Gather the employee engagement techniques that helped propel the Intertape Polymer Group to their 2016 IW Best Plants Award. Features how the company develops teams, assesses performance, sets goals and creates a culture of continuous improvement through employee engagement at all levels of the organization.
Workforce Leadership
- The Secret to Operational Excellence Success
You might think it’s all about innovative management practices, but Lean Leader Billy Taylor, Goodyear’s Director of Manufacturing, will demonstrate how to achieve operational excellence through process discipline and alignment from the C-Suite to the manufacturing floor.
Training
- How Honda North America is Bridging the Skills Gap
Experts in talent acquisition for Honda North America will share how they overcame the challenges of recruiting and training equipment service tech/industrial maintenance technicians with in-house training, partnerships with schools and other community involvement.
8:45 am – 10 am
Featured Keynote: Lean Leadership
- Define, Align & Execute to Achieve and Sustain Operational Excellence
Back by Popular Demand with a new, high-energy keynote, Goodyear’s Lean Leader Billy Taylor, reveals how the Goodyear Business Operating System converts strategy into winning.
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Recruiting
- Mastering the Millennial Workforce
Gather tips for recruiting, retaining and engaging Millennials in manufacturing, from the front office to the shop floor, from the president of Willington Nameplate.
Lean Leadership
- Lean for Leaders
CEO Jim Lancaster shares how to achieve stability, improvement and growth with daily lean leadership best practices.
