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Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

What if some of your biggest cost-saving opportunities are already hiding in the bills you pay every month?

If you're looking for ways to improve your bottom line without cutting production, people, or quality, this session will show you where to look first.

Manufacturers are constantly looking for ways to improve margins—but some of the easiest money to recover may be sitting in plain sight. Merchant processing fees, shipping invoices, and utility bills are recurring, complex, and rarely audited as closely as they should be.

In this practical, numbers-driven session, discover where manufacturers commonly overpay—and how to spot the difference between what you should be paying and what you're actually paying.

You'll learn how to uncover hidden fees and billing errors, identify opportunities in cost categories such as merchant services, shipping and freight, and utilities, and use simple audit techniques to determine whether you're leaving money on the table. You'll also walk away with a Monday-morning checklist you can use to start reviewing your own expenses without new software or a major internal initiative.

You'll walk away knowing how to:

• Identify common hidden charges and billing errors across three major expense categories
• Calculate the numbers that actually matter when evaluating merchant processing costs
• Spot shipping and freight charges that may be incorrect, unnecessary, or recoverable
• Recognize utility billing issues such as incorrect rate classes and demand charges
• Apply a simple process for reviewing your own recurring expenses—and finding potential savings

Come find the money hiding in your overhead—and put more of it back on your bottom line.

Presented by Sarah D'Amico, Schooley Mitchell — North America's largest independent cost reduction firm.

Unplanned downtime remains one of the costliest disruptions on the plant floor. In this session, HCLTech unpacks how AI-driven predictive maintenance is rewriting the playbook, moving manufacturers from reactive repairs and scheduled servicing to a state of continuous, self-healing production.

Through real-world use cases across industrial manufacturing, discover how machine learning models, AIoT sensors and digital twins are enabling zero-downtime operations, extending asset life and unlocking measurable OEE gains. Learn how enterprises are turning maintenance from a cost center into a competitive advantage.

For decades, CAM software has relied on the same workflow: choose a strategy, adjust pages of parameters, regenerate, and repeat. It’s familiar—but not always efficient. Programmers often spend more time translating intent into settings and iterating through regeneration cycles than actually refining the toolpath.

This session explores a more visual, automation-first approach to toolpath creation. We’ll look at how intelligent defaults, direct on-screen toolpath editing, color-coded workflow stages, and seamless 3- to 5-axis flexibility can reduce programming time and eliminate unnecessary iteration. Through live demonstrations on real-world parts, we’ll highlight where traditional parameter-driven workflows create friction—and how a more interactive model can streamline programming and accelerate production.

Designed for CNC programmers, manufacturing engineers, and shop managers, this discussion examines what the evolution of CAM workflow means for efficiency, training, and getting parts out the door faster.

The world premiere of the Micro5 XL, introducing a new dimension in micro machining with maximum precision, dynamics and resource efficiency.

Based on this machine, developed in Switzerland and in the heart of the watch & jewelry industry,
this session we will take you on a journey into the world of micro machining and its possibilities.

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Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

The latest technology in automation, robotics, and digital solutions alone cannot guarantee a positive ROI or sustainable performance when it comes to manufacturing. This session introduces a practical “Smart Production Readiness” approach that helps plants and intralogistics operations build the right foundation of data, people skills, and IT infrastructure before implementing or scaling automation.

Framed around four pillars—people, processes, data, and systems—this educational session demonstrates how to assess organizational skills and roles, stabilize end-to-end workflows, improve master and transactional data quality, and align IT/OT architecture across ERP, MES, WMS, and SCADA before implementing an automated solution or scaling for your warehouse or production intralogistics.

Participants will learn how a structured readiness assessment plan translates complex shop-floor realities into clear decision support for leadership, using standardization and readiness matrices. From understanding the fundamentals of what needs to happen and in what order to implement automation correctly, to making your business case success criteria a true success, you’ll get the tools you need to implement an automated operation with positive payback.

For 30 years, CAD has belonged to a handful of incumbents. The founders building AI-native design and simulation tools make the case for what changes when generative models meet engineering workflows and where the legacy stack finally breaks.

Explore how headline-grabbing economic news affects everything from business decisions to choices at the checkout counter and what they mean for manufacturers like yourself.

After establishing the economic setting, the story will shift to the role of automation in the modern shop facing persistent employment gaps.

Looking toward the future, the presentation will conclude by examining new opportunities created by the AI boom and thoughts on how to best capitalize in a brightening manufacturing future.

Simon Schneider, Director of the Okuma Factory Automation for Okuma America Corporation, works closely with manufacturers of all sizes throughout the Americas.  Through these experiences, Simon has gained first-hand knowledge about challenges facing manufacturers today. Many of these challenges can be solved by leveraging and scaling automation technologies, thereby positioning manufacturers for greater efficiency and business growth both today and into the future. 

Short-Term Wins:

The case for preconfigured, easy-to-implement systems
Realize immediate impacts on production levels
Position for new business opportunities
Overcome workforce availability challenges
Achieve short-term ROI on investment

Long-Term Transformations:

Paradigm Shift - the changing role of the machinist/production worker; freeing resources for more strategic work
Evolve your business’s capabilities with the powerful human and technology combination
Scaling for business growth

Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

Lace up and run to fund STEM education.

This panel brings together investment and industry leaders to examine where capital is flowing across manufacturing technology and what is driving those decisions. The conversation will explore investment in Industrial AI and the digital thread, automation and robotics, additive manufacturing, and advanced materials, with a focus on where these technologies are demonstrating practical value, scalability, and growth potential.

Panelists will also discuss how interest rates, inflation, and global supply chain shifts are influencing deal activity, valuations, and M&A strategies. From strategic buyers to private equity, the discussion will provide insight into who is investing, what they are looking for, and what today’s capital flows signal about the future of manufacturing technology.

To lead the global market, manufacturers must move beyond incremental improvements and embrace a new era of intelligent operations. This session explores how ChampionAI, embedded within QAD Adaptive, helps manufacturers move from a system of record to a system of action, turning enterprise data into intelligent decisions and real-time execution.

Discover how AI-powered decision support and intelligent workflows help manufacturers reduce manual effort, improve operational visibility, predict disruptions before they impact production, and respond faster to changing market demands. By connecting people, processes, and data across the enterprise, QAD Adaptive with ChampionAI enables manufacturers to improve productivity, increase agility, enhance quality, and lower the total cost of goods sold (COGS)

For years, additive manufacturing has been associated with design freedom but questioned for its dimensional accuracy and repeatability for production — particularly when compared to traditional manufacturing processes. While high precision has long been achievable, it often depended on expert users, manual calibration, and tightly controlled print conditions.

This talk explores how recent advances in automated calibration and feature‑level correction are fundamentally changing that equation. Drawing on real production data – using connectors as example use-case - it shows how systematic correction of optical distortion, intensity variation, and scaling error can transform additive manufacturing from a skill‑dependent process into a repeatable, globally consistent manufacturing technology.

Modern machining demands cutting tools that deliver repeatable performance, long tool life, and sustainability at scale. This presentation explores how control of the carbide supply chain, combined with advanced tool design and manufacturing expertise, consistently produces high-performance solid round tools worldwide. Attendees will gain insight into how powder metallurgy, flute and geometry optimization, coating technologies, and production replication work together to drive productivity in demanding applications such as aerospace, automotive, general machining, and defense manufacturing.

Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

The Manufacturing USA network of manufacturing innovation institutes is bridging the gap between technology discovery and scaled domestic production. The institutes are ensuring that American innovations become U.S. commercial manufacturing success stories. Panelists will discuss how public-private partnerships across the Manufacturing USA network are acting as force multipliers to de-risk technology adoption, to navigate the commercialization "valley of death,” and build the technical workforce needed to succeed. Join us for an engaging look at how Manufacturing USA continues to advance the manufacturing industry.

The greatest bottleneck in modern manufacturing is no longer machine capacity, it’s the fragility of tribal knowledge. While Lean focused on waste and Six Sigma on variance, the next frontier for the high-precision shop is the transition from a manual System of Record to a proactive System of Execution: one where best practices are captured, enforced, and improved automatically rather than living in the minds of your best people.This session introduces the Intelligent Shop - a framework that treats operational expertise as a living digital asset, not a human dependency. Instead of bolting on separate systems for quality, cybersecurity, scheduling, and compliance, the Intelligent Shop embeds them into a single production workflow where compliance needs like AS90100 and CMMC become a natural byproduct of how the shop already runs.

Attendees will learn how to operationalize their best practices into repeatable digital workflows, surface production realities in real-time, embed security and quality compliance directly into daily operations, and build an operation that can onboard a new machinist on Monday and pass an audit on Friday, all without breaking stride.

The shops thriving now aren’t the ones with the best heroes. They’re the ones that build systems that get smarter the longer they operate

Most robotic systems are still taught manually at the robot, resulting in long changeovers, inconsistent paths, and lost production time. This session shows how offline robot programming (OLP) supported by a full digital twin of the robot, tooling, and workcell reduces downtime, ensures collision-free motion, and enables high-mix, low-volume manufacturing. Real-world examples highlight applications in machining, trimming, sanding, deburring, and welding, as well as integration workflows for FANUC, ABB, Yaskawa, and KUKA. Attendees will learn best practices for deploying OLP in both new and existing robotics environments.

Building on Wednesday's Smart Machining session, this presentation takes a deeper dive into what it actually looks like to put on-machine inspection to work -- from first deployment through measurable, sustained results.

CAPPS-NC has become the tool of choice for manufacturers who need more than theory. In this session, Chris Affer walks through real implementation experiences across aerospace, defense, and mold and die -- sharing the decisions made, the obstacles overcome, and the outcomes achieved by teams that have made on-machine inspection a core part of how they run their process.

Attendees will come away with a grounded understanding of what implementation really involves, including application overviews that map to common shop floor scenarios, KPI benchmarks that reflect what world-class manufacturers are actually achieving, and an honest look at the tools and workflows that drive those results.

Whether you're evaluating CAPPS-NC for the first time or looking to get more out of an existing deployment, this session offers the kind of practical detail that moves projects forward.

Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

When the machine checks out fine but the scrap bin keeps filling up: the real culprits behind blown parts.

Close out the day with IMTS Unwind on the IMTS+ Main Stage! Each episode features lively interviews with industry experts, main-stage keynote speakers, manufacturers, and social media influencers. Get the scoop on must-see events for the next day and key insights to make the most of your IMTS.

The Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network (CRMN) is a new initiative at the Department of War to broaden domestic manufacturing capability and capacity in the defense industrial base during wartime by providing companies incentives and other considerations during peacetime, as inspired by the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF).  This session will provide information on the DoW CRMN Implementation Plan, and more importantly, solicit feedback and ideas from the manufacturing community on what types of incentives would be attractive for such a program and what barriers exist for a company interested in participating.  The presentation will be followed by “office hours” where DoW representatives will be available to answer questions not covered during the session.

Kickstart your day with the IMTS Morning Show on the IMTS+ Main Stage! Each episode features lively interviews with industry experts, main-stage keynote speakers, manufacturers, and social media influencers. Get the scoop on must-see events and key insights to make the most of your day at IMTS.

Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

Discover the ideas and innovations transforming manufacturing. This Main Stage session will feature industry experts sharing insights on emerging technologies, workforce trends, and the future of the industry.

Close out the day with IMTS Unwind on the IMTS+ Main Stage! Each episode features lively interviews with industry experts, main-stage keynote speakers, manufacturers, and social media influencers. Get the scoop on must-see events for the next day and key insights to make the most of your IMTS.

Discover the ideas and innovations transforming manufacturing. This Main Stage session will feature industry experts sharing insights on emerging technologies, workforce trends, and the future of the industry.

Women aren’t waiting for an invitation to shape the future of manufacturing. This candid conversation brings together women from across the industry to talk about getting in, staying in, and stepping up — from the shop floor to leadership — and what needs to change to build the next generation of manufacturing.