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IMTS groups technologies together into 10 pavilions to help visitors maximize their time and comparison shop. Visitors share how they navigate their way through the largest advanced manufacturing show in North America.

The home of IMTS since 1972, McCormick Place is named to honor Colonel Robert R. McCormick (1880-1955), Editor and Publisher of the Chicago Tribune (1914-1926) who strongly campaigned for a lakeside convention center (today’s location of the East Building). Unfortunately, he died five years before the original facility’s debut in 1960.

IMTS 2018 will bring people and automation closer together – literally – with exhibits that highlight the benefits of collaborative robots, or “cobots.”

Spend the evening with the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, a mere 10 miles from McCormick Place and one of the most iconic sports venues in history. The Cubs play six home games during the week of IMTS. Experience the lively neighborhood bustling with new restaurants, bars, music venues and green space.

With almost triple the number of exhibitors presenting additive manufacturing solutions, IMTS 2018 offers skilled machine shops the chance to see many more AM companies in one place to compare systems and determine what might be right for them.