EAST Exhibitor: For over 60 years Perry has provided precision manufacturing of complex machined parts with a specialty in gears, splines and related components. They serve many industries including commercial and military aerospace, defense, space systems, medical, OEM, and power generation. Offering a wide range of services on custom parts with rigorous quality requirements, Perry excels in advanced engineering, high precision, and dedicated customer service.
EAST Exhibitor: Penn Stainless Products is a full line supplier and processor of stainless steel sheet, plate, bar, structural, pipe and tubular products. Penn Stainless stocks over 30 grades of stainless steel, including 300 and 400 series stainless, duplex steels, 17-4PH, and high temperature grades, for shipments worldwide. Processing services include coil leveling, saw cutting, dynamic waterjet cutting, laser cutting, and plasma cutting. All stainless steel products can be processed to meet your exact requirements.
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EAST Exhibitor: Paradiso Insurance, located at 8 East Main Street in Stafford Springs, has one focus: you. You are our boss. And our main goal is to make getting the right insurance as easy as possible. We’re well-versed in the risks and potential losses residents and business owners face in their personal and business lives, and we work closely with dozens and dozens of top-rated insurance companies to give you choices—something you won’t get from some of our major competitors. Our team members take the time to listen to you and learn about your life and property, so we can protect you properly. We carefully review your particular exposures with you, and then create a customized protection plan that fits your specific business or family needs. We explain what coverages we recommend, and then put in place policies required to ensure your security.
EAST Exhibitor: OGP (Optical Gaging Products), a division of Quality Vision International Inc. (QVI®), is a world-leading manufacturer of precision multisensor metrology systems for industrial quality control. Our metrology systems focus on measurement technologies that help manufacturers monitor dimensional compliance to design specifications. First introduced in 1992, our famous OGP SmartScope® product family has become one of the world’s most popular and versatile dimensional measurement systems. SmartScope systems are designed and produced at QVI corporate headquarters in Rochester, NY, USA. Today, OGP offerings have expanded to include shaft measurement systems and a line of innovative multisensor CMMs. OGP products also include 3D scanning systems and measuring systems with unique capabilities to support high volume production. With over 75 years of technical innovation for metrology, OGP is recognized worldwide as a customer trusted supplier of non-contact and multisensor dimensional measuring systems. In today’s world, improved productivity is everyone’s goal.
EAST Exhibitor: OPEN MIND is one of the world’s most sought-after developers of powerful CAM solutions for machine and controller-independent programming. OPEN MIND develops optimized CAM solutions that include a high number of innovative features not available elsewhere to deliver significantly higher performance in both programming and machining. Strategies such as 2.5D, 3D as well as 5-axis milling/mill turning, and machining operations like HSC and HPC are efficiently built into the hyperMILL® CAM system. hyperMILL® provides the maximum possible benefits to customers thanks to its full compatibility with all current CAD solutions and extensive programming automation.
EAST Session: Equipment manufacturers face rising competition, hardware commoditization, and shrinking margins. The solution? Innovating with IoT, AI, and cloud services to enhance equipment value and create new revenue streams. By connecting hardware to the cloud via wireless sensors, manufacturers can collect real-time data on health and usage. This enables value-added services like condition monitoring, asset tracking, and predictive maintenance—paving the way for Equipment as a Service (EaaS). While full servitization is a long-term goal, the journey brings immediate benefits: competitive differentiation, stronger customer relationships, and recurring revenue. However, 75% of these projects fail or face long delays, and many manufacturers struggle to sell software-based solutions. In this talk, we’ll break down the challenges of integrating IoT and AI—and how to overcome them. With over a decade of experience, we’ll highlight common pitfalls and share success stories from industry leaders using a “Buy and Build” approach. You’ll leave with actionable strategies to accelerate your servitization journey and maximize equipment value. Significance/Importance: If you're standing still, you're falling behind. And staying ahead means innovating. Unfortunately, 75% of IoT projects fail, or drag on for years. Don't be another statistic. This talk will leave you with actionable strategies to accelerate and succeed on your servitization journey.
EAST Session: Moderated by: Steve Plumb Rather than start with a discussion of all the technologies available in the industrial marketplace, this panel session will start by outlining the primary concerns of manufacturing businesses. By first appealing to what the audience (machining businesses) cares about most at the start, the panel will logically ease into a discussion of how available technologies can help achieve greater outcomes for these businesses…in other words, solutions to the preeminent problems. Among the concerns highlighted at the outset will be improving competitiveness (domestically and globally), throughput (business growth), and yes productivity in the face of the manufacturing skills gap. The panel will be represented by industry leaders who either are dealing with these concerns directly, or those that have a “front row seat” to a variety of companies that seek to survive and thrive. Technologies that will be addressed will likely include automation, robotics, workforce training, machining technology, machine monitoring, software and AI to name a few. The above will be discussed in the first Executive Perspectives panel discussion on Tuesday, followed on Wednesday with another critical topic…cybersecurity.
EAST Session: • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Introduction to Metal 3D Printing Technologies Presenter: Jeff Crandall • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Automation of Production Programming Presenter: Nasir Mannan • 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM: Automated Welding Using Model-Based Definition Presenter: Nasir Mannan
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