AMT-The Association For Manufacturing Technology

Welcome!

For the 27th time since the first Machine Tool Show in 1927, our association is sponsoring the world's pre-eminent manufacturing technology exhibition. All of us at AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology, welcome you to IMTS 2008, where you will find the latest solutions to your current and future needs.

This year, innovation is not limited to the exhibition halls. We're particularly pleased to be joining with our partners to offer the IMTS 2008 Manufacturing Business & Technology Forum which is a new and exciting series of sessions. The Forum Partners have joined together to bring you five days of educational sessions designed to put your business and technology needs into focus in this revamped and expanded program. We think you will find these Forum sessions to be highly valuable, and we hope you make time to experience them. ~ John B. Byrd III, President, AMT-The Association For Manufacturing Technology

Forum Educational Description

Connectivity & Interoperability - "Are you Connected?"
AMT will be showcasing MTConnect this year, a new communication protocol standard for passing data between devices, equipment, and higher level applications. To help introduce this standard there will be a FREE session providing an overview of the standard itself followed by indepth presentations on how to develop an adapter for retrieving data from a device or piece of equipment, as well as, an overview on the Software Development Kit (SKD) for applications to data for use. The SDK to be reviewed will be for Microsoft .NET users."

To find out more about MTConnect, go to www.MTConnect.org.

What is MTConnect...a collaboration between manufacturing technology and computer science creating a new standard for accessing data easily and regularly.

The creation of a seamless "manufacturing pipeline" from design to production is essential for increasing productivity and efficiency. See this highly innovative solution in operation at IMTS 2008.

View the Forum Registration information and plan to attend IMTS 2008 now.

Session Schedule

SESSION TITLE	TIME
Tuesday, September 9
Best Practices for Recruiting the Future Skilled Manufacturing Workforce	10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Wednesday, September 10
MTConnect	10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Develop Your Strategic Plan for Competing with Emerging Economies	10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Re-Evaluating the EDM Process to Reduce Cost in Aerospace Components	2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Thursday, September 11
MTConnect	2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Friday, September 12
MTConnect	10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Conference Contact for AMT

Lee Anne Orange
Exhibitions Project Manager
lorange@amtonline.org

AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology

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