Dave Plomin

Partner 
Strategy & Operations Management Consulting, Plante Moran
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Realizing Value Creation and Competitive Advantages with Industry 4.0

How do you measure and maximize your investment to move beyond enhanced productivity to achieve greater scalability, flexibility, and data-driven value creation? This presentation will highlight pragmatic, real-world solutions to open the door to “what’s possible” and how to reset your vision based on what you’ve accomplished. Hear how your peers are using predictive capabilities and automation to lower cost, improve interactions with customers and suppliers, and achieve a competitive advantage. 

    

    

Mark Merino

Digital Factory Solutions Director 
Polaris Automation, Inc.
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Implementing Industry 4.0 on the Factory Floor

There’s a lot of hype about Industry 4.0 and how drastically this will change manufacturing operations. IIOT, Edge Devices and APIs are great, but connecting these to existing OT infrastructures to retrieve the right data in the right context can be elusive, and often is left to the operations group to figure out. This presentation will lay out a proven roadmap that has been used by World Class Manufacturers to implement their I4.0 strategy on the factory floor, throughout multiple lines and locations, and will offer a valuable list of do’s and don’ts to follow based on lessons learned.

    

    

Mike Kroll

Director of Global IT 
Trans-Matic
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Craig Scott

Founder 
MFGx
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CASE STUDY: Industry 4.0 Processes and Progress at Trans-Matic

Industry consultant Craig Scott and Trans-Matic IT director Mike Kroll will explain what Industry 4.0 means to Trans-Matic, and describe the company’s transformation timeline and the role MFGx will play. They’ll also discuss the firm’s plan for shop-floor integration and integration of its quality lab, and its new production-recording system. Finally, they’ll explain the benefits it expects to realize from its Industry 4.0 strategy, and outline what’s next.

    

    

Joe Bortolameolli

Product Specialist 
Brankamp Corp.
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Condition Monitoring Best Practices for Metal Forming and Fabricating Operations

This discussion homes in on the best practices metal forming companies can use when installing continuous conditioning-monitoring technology, to optimize equipment throughput and consistency. Learn how this technology helps shops reduce maintenance costs by making accurate record-taking more straightforward and available in real time.

    

    

Joe Bashta

CEO 
Axicor
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Brian Schauf

Innovation Technology Program Director 
Scheiber Foods
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How to Get Measurable Outcomes from Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Among topics to be covered:

• The differences between business intelligence and AI
• What is machine learning and how does it actually work?
• The Data Journey--how Axicor helps companies derive measurable outcomes using AI

    

    

Tony Kaczmarek

VP Product Management 
Plex Systems
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What We've Learned from the First 20 years of IOT

Over the past 20 years the evolution of IOT has moved from isolated systems to fully integrated/quick-to-value solutions, with flexible on-ramps to parts and pieces as they're ready for the journey. Key takeaways:

• While others struggle, understand how to leverage technology for greater efficiency, quality, and visibility
• While others stall, understand how to achieve quick, scalable, and powerful solutions
• While others lose value over time, understand how to grow your footprint as your needs change
• While the industry pushes perceived solutions, solve real problems

    

    

Todd Wenzel

President 
TCR-Integrated Stamping Systems
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Opportunities for Automating the Press Room

• How do you decide when and where automate?
• What operations are commonly automated?
• How are these investments justified?

These topics and more will be addressed, to help metal forming companies bring automated solutions—fixed automation as well as flexible systems--into their operations.

    

    

Bill Bither

    

CEO and Co-Founder 
MachineMetrics

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The Death of MES: Embracing the Connected Factory Ecosystem

Today is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for manufacturers to capitalize on the reorganization of the global supply chain, so there has never been a more important time to reduce the burden of non-essential manual tasks and decision-making via digital transformation. And, you need the tools to do so quickly. Yet, despite the advantages that modern production monitoring and analytics systems offer, an overwhelming majority of companies still use manual or outdated technology, and a great deal of hesitancy exists for many manufacturers to embrace the modernization that solves these new challenges.

There is no silver bullet, and we certainly can't solve the problems of tomorrow with the tools of the past. The good news? A new school of thought is emerging, working toward one shared goal: Empower manufacturers to connect, optimize, adapt and evolve regardless of the circumstances.

In this presentation, you’ll learn about this new approach to digital transformation, driven by “The Connected Factory Ecosystem.” Included will be high-impact use cases, including Mayville Engineering, where connectivity is helping executives make quick business decisions and automate more processes to compensate for the lack of workers.

    

    

Aaron Wiegel

    

President 
Wiegel Tool Works

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CASE STUDY: IoT and Data Analytics at Wiegel Tool Works

    

Will Healy III

    

Global Supply Chain Information Office 
Balluff

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Sensors for Bringing IoT to the Pressroom and Fab Shop

…covering the various types of sensors, sensor selection, best practices for implementation, and more.

    

Daniel Leong

Product Marketing Manager 
Markforged
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Ross Adams

Product Manager 
Markforged
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How 3D Printing Can Accelerate Your Metal Fabrication Process

Learn from several case studies metal formers and fabricators leverage additive manufacturing to quickly and efficiently evolve from from idea to end part ,whether tooling up a bending cell or empowering system integrators.