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More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the WESTEC 2005 exposition and conference, which will be held April 4–7 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The event is one of the 200 largest trade shows in North America, attracting large numbers of domestic and international manufacturers annually. More than 1,000 companies will demonstrate upward of seven million pounds of machinery, with exhibitors including leading equipment and tooling manufacturers, regional distributors and services representing 2,500 product lines.
Emerging and niche technologies will be represented in hundreds of new product introductions. Companies will demonstrate product lines including: machining centers, milling and boring machines, cutting tools and accessories, controls, CAD/CAM software, automated manufacturing and assembly, advanced materials, lean manufacturing, and micromanufacturing.
Event keynote addresses include presentations from Col. John A Daniels, Defense Contract Management Agency; and Barry Sedlik, California State Undersecretary and senior advisor for economic development. An Aerospace and Defense Technology Pavilion will focus on composites and advanced materials, design, engineering, lean enterprise and quality.
“We need to be more involved and smarter about how we do business, and we need to look for new opportunities in new and evolving markets,” says Gary Mikola, Society of Manufacturing Engineers director of expositions. “Our recent study with preregistered WESTEC attendees to gauge buying intentions reported that 65 percent have increased equipment budgets and 76 percent have said their business has increased. We think manufacturers are ready to buy new capital equipment and they’ll find solutions to their equipment needs at WESTEC.”
The show is co-sponsored by SME, the Association for Manufacturing Technology and the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association. For more information, visit www.sme.org/westec.
Emerging and niche technologies will be represented in hundreds of new product introductions. Companies will demonstrate product lines including: machining centers, milling and boring machines, cutting tools and accessories, controls, CAD/CAM software, automated manufacturing and assembly, advanced materials, lean manufacturing, and micromanufacturing.
Event keynote addresses include presentations from Col. John A Daniels, Defense Contract Management Agency; and Barry Sedlik, California State Undersecretary and senior advisor for economic development. An Aerospace and Defense Technology Pavilion will focus on composites and advanced materials, design, engineering, lean enterprise and quality.
“We need to be more involved and smarter about how we do business, and we need to look for new opportunities in new and evolving markets,” says Gary Mikola, Society of Manufacturing Engineers director of expositions. “Our recent study with preregistered WESTEC attendees to gauge buying intentions reported that 65 percent have increased equipment budgets and 76 percent have said their business has increased. We think manufacturers are ready to buy new capital equipment and they’ll find solutions to their equipment needs at WESTEC.”
The show is co-sponsored by SME, the Association for Manufacturing Technology and the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association. For more information, visit www.sme.org/westec.
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