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WEST Exhibitor: Join us at the new SME Mission Critical: Workforce 2030, a transformative experience designed to empower manufacturers in tackling today's critical workforce challenges. This immersive destination offers a unique opportunity to assess, explore, and connect with solutions designed to unlock human potential. What awaits you: • Personalized Readiness Assessment: Start with an onsite or online assessment (sme.org/workforce) to identify your workforce needs and map strategic solutions with SME. • Technology & Talent Partners: Explore workforce readiness solutions from Tooling U-SME, SME PRIME, and SME Education Foundation in a self-guided experience. • SME Insights Desk: Hear industry leaders share valuable knowledge and tackle today’s most relevant workforce topics. • SME Think Tank Consultations: Get personalized, face-to-face consultations with SME and partner experts on your company’s unique workforce needs. • SME Theater: Discover the latest in manufacturing tech and processes through dynamic presentations and panels with thought leaders. • SME Makers Lounge: Connect, network, and collaborate with industry peers in a central, open space. Engage in discussions about the latest trends and gain practical insights to drive your business forward. Join us at SME Mission Critical: Workforce 2030 and equip your company with the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in the evolving manufacturing landscape.

WEST Exhibitor: Join us at the new SME Mission Critical: Workforce 2030, a transformative experience designed to empower manufacturers in tackling today's critical workforce challenges. This immersive destination offers a unique opportunity to assess, explore, and connect with solutions designed to unlock human potential. What awaits you: • Personalized Readiness Assessment: Start with an onsite or online assessment (sme.org/workforce) to identify your workforce needs and map strategic solutions with SME. • Technology & Talent Partners: Explore workforce readiness solutions from Tooling U-SME, SME PRIME, and SME Education Foundation in a self-guided experience. • SME Insights Desk: Hear industry leaders share valuable knowledge and tackle today’s most relevant workforce topics. • SME Think Tank Consultations: Get personalized, face-to-face consultations with SME and partner experts on your company’s unique workforce needs. • SME Theater: Discover the latest in manufacturing tech and processes through dynamic presentations and panels with thought leaders. • SME Makers Lounge: Connect, network, and collaborate with industry peers in a central, open space. Engage in discussions about the latest trends and gain practical insights to drive your business forward. Join us at SME Mission Critical: Workforce 2030 and equip your company with the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in the evolving manufacturing landscape.

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WEST Exhibitor: CSSI delivers expert knowledge and valuable insights at both the federal and state levels, working with your team and tax professionals to navigate the complexities of tax-based incentives and property credits. Over the years, we have built one of the largest networks of tax professionals in the country, able to assess the impact and opportunity in your local area while delivering a level of service unmatched in our industry.

WEST Exhibitor: COSS Systems is a technology company that provides enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions specifically designed for manufacturers. Our software helps streamline operations, improve efficiency, and integrate key business processes such as production, inventory, sales, and finance, enabling manufacturers to better manage their entire operations from a single platform.

WEST Session: Manufacturers face constant pressure to improve output while controlling costs, yet productivity gains are often pursued through equipment upgrades or process reengineering alone. A critical but overlooked lever is the frontline workforce—the people running machines, moving materials, and maintaining operations every day. When employees are disconnected from the information, communication, and tools they need, even small inefficiencies compound into significant losses. This presentation explores how targeted technology investments can unlock measurable productivity improvements, sometimes as much as 25%, by empowering frontline employees. We will examine the most common friction points that reduce performance, such as paper-based reporting, limited resource access at work stations, delayed reporting and task triggers, inconsistent training and retention, and siloed communication. We’ll then show how software solutions can extend existing ERP, HCM, and MES systems to the shop floor, creating a single hub where employees can access workflows, compliance updates, and real-time alerts. Attendees will see how manufacturers are achieving faster response times, reducing downtime, streamlining onboarding, and improving compliance by modernizing the employee experience. The session will provide a practical framework to quantify workforce productivity losses and demonstrate the ROI of equipping employees with the right digital tools.

Speaker at WEST: David Hallac, Founder and CEO, Viaduct

WEST Session: A recent MIT study, highlighted by Forbes , found that 95% of corporate AI pilots have failed to produce meaningful results or delivered ROI. There are many challenges and complexities that contribute to these failures, including company-wide strategy, technical system integrations, and internal cultural adoption to AI. As for the successful pilots, they often involve systems that learn, admit uncertainty, and integrate deeply into workflows, focusing on back-office functions where ROI is direct. This presentation will share lessons learned and successful use cases from the field and reveal the Top 5 focus areas every manufacturer should prioritize to turn AI pilots into ROI generating engines.