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WEST Session: This session explores how connected manufacturing processes can unify production, inventory, scheduling, and financial data into a single, real-time source of truth. By integrating critical business functions—from sales orders to production planning, quality control, and shipping—manufacturers can break down silos, eliminate redundant processes, and improve responsiveness to market changes. With access to accurate and timely information, decision-makers gain the visibility needed to identify bottlenecks, reduce errors, and optimize resource allocation. Attendees will learn how adopting a connected approach not only increases efficiency and collaboration but also positions manufacturers to adapt quickly to evolving customer demands and market conditions, ensuring long-term competitiveness and growth.

WEST Session: Sponsored by: UiPath Moderated by: Paul Boris This panel brings together different perspectives, from a small, family-owned manufacturing company to one of the largest digital solutions providers, to discuss the deployment of advanced technologies and how the landscape continues to change rapidly.  Using AI to improve efficiency, automate tasks and analyze data allows manufacturers enhanced decision making and is even transforming entire industries.  AI is disrupting traditional thinking at an accelerated pace.  This panel will cover organizational factors/business considerations, technical challenges, skills/labor gaps, ethical considerations and other.

Speaker at WEST: George Barnych, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM)

Speaker at WEST: Mary Miller, Director of Marketing, PayTrace

Speaker at WEST: Michelle Leon, Operations Manager, Levil Technology

Speaker at WEST: Errol Burrell, National Product Manager, Matsuura USA

Speaker at WEST: Kevin Rankl, VP Tech Support, SolidCAM

WEST Session: AI is everywhere in the headlines, but most manufacturers are still asking the same question: where do we start? Between vendor hype and uncertain ROI, it’s hard to separate what’s possible from what’s practical. This talk will help cut through the noise and share a pragmatic roadmap for building AI capability in manufacturing. Attendees will learn three proven ways to apply AI today: automating documentation, accelerating compliance, and capturing engineering expertise, along with three common pitfalls to avoid when launching AI initiatives. Rather than a futuristic vision, this session provides concrete, usable steps that any manufacturer can take immediately, whether they’re a 50-person shop or a global enterprise. The key message: you don’t need a lab full of data scientists to get started. With the right workflows, AI can deliver measurable results now, and prepare your organization for the next decade of manufacturing innovation.

Speaker at WEST: Jamie Goettler, Chief Revenue Officer, BTX Precision

Speaker at WEST: Luis Solano, Customer Engineering- Manufacturing Lead, Google Cloud