IMTS Elevate Job Shops

IMTS Elevate Job Shops

Job shops are the lifeblood of the manufacturing industry. Powered by AMT and Gardner Business Media, these three, half-day workshops were exclusively designed to offer job shop stakeholders new and creative opportunities to learn, connect, and transform today and tomorrow.

Make Your Shop a Top Shop

Powered by Modern Machine Shop

This ½-day program offered visitors insight into this year's annual Top Shops benchmarking survey. Attendees learned from industry experts and current and past Top Shop award winners and found out what makes a shop rise to the top and how their shop stacks up against the competition.

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The Shop of Our Future

Powered by AMT

As manufacturing continues to change and transform at a rapid pace, whether it's automation, robotics, digital technologies, or workforce, attendees joined other industry job shop peers to discover the changes and adoptions needed to prepare for our future. This program featured exchanges tackling the technologies, strategies, and the tools needed to transform your shop.

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3D Printing for Job Shops

Presented by Additive Manufacturing Media, Plastics Technology, and MoldMaking Technology

This workshop offered a chance for job shops to learn the emerging possibilities for part production via 3D printing and additive manufacturing. In this concentrated half-day seminar, attendees learned how machining facilities are applying 3D printers for tooling and for runs of parts that do not make sense on traditional machining centers. Topics included:

• Success Stories From Small Shops
• How Metal AM and Machining Work Together
• Faster Setups in Machining Using 3D Printed References
• Hybrid AM: State of the Technology and Opportunities for Smaller Shops
• Large-Format 3D Printing for Machine Shops

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