The Industrial Design Engineering & Automation Conference

Diversity and Inclusion management process embraces the differences in people, thoughts, and activities to foster innovation within the company culture. Learn how to build a diverse and inclusive operating culture with robust accountability systems to amplify inclusion at every level of the organization. 

Following COVID-19, it will be even more crucial for the industry to adapt and change to help ensure that future resilience and adoption of the Factory of the Future (FoF) is key. Your business needs to be equipped for the now, next and beyond, taking immediate steps to safeguard business continuity and initiate crisis planning while developing a resilient enterprise going forward. This will allow you to reframe your future, operate a “new normal” and transform to succeed.

While the factory automation industry continues steady growth, mechatronic linear solutions are getting smarter. Can they help you be faster to market?

Manufacturers are still talking about digitizing their manufacturing floor and deciding if they should invest or not. In this presentation, Mo Abuali has some key messages for the attendees:

• Act now and build the business case for Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0, and get started.
• Data first! Digitalization is from the past; Predictive Analytics and Artificial Intelligence is the future.
• Industry 4.0 is all about people, process, and technology. Empower your operators and personnel with paperless human-machine interfacing and improve their productivity.
• Think big, start small, and think ROI (return on investment). Take a systematic path to drive the right technology adoption, and scale your digital maturity.

Whether it's for prototyping or mass commercial use, the time and energy spent setting up your manufacturing production impacts your team's ability to meet deadlines, ensure quality, and account for supply chain disruptions. In this talk, Xometry's Aaron Lichtig will cover how Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS) expedites the rate of your engineering and design team's innovation capacity, as well as protects production timelines from external vulnerabilities. Walk away from this session with expert knowledge on how to outpace your competition through cutting-edge digital manufacturing strategies.

As consumer demands continue to climb, material handling automation has become a proven must-have for manufacturing facilities. However, a successful automation project goes beyond the hardware. In this session, discover how to define success metrics, promote user adoption, use data to prove a strong ROI today and prepare for tomorrow, while making a case for expansion across your enterprise.