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Expo Hours
| Monday Sept. 8 | 9 AM — 5 PM |
| Tuesday Sept. 9 | 9 AM — 5 PM |
| Wednesday Sept. 10 | 9 AM — 5 PM |
| Thursday Sept. 11 | 9 AM — 3 PM |
Venue
McCormick Place
2301 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60616
About the Expo
North America's largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event heads to McCormick Place in September 2025. FABTECH provides a convenient "one stop shop" venue where you can meet with world-class suppliers, see the latest industry products and developments, and find the tools to improve productivity, increase profits and discover new solutions to all of your metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing needs.
North America's Largest Metal Forming, Fabricating, Welding and Finishing Event
Forming & Fabricating
F134: Preparing for Advanced Sheet Metal Manufacturing
*This conference session requires registration and payment. Click here to register/add session to your registration.
The goal of the session is to promote new ideas for the average sheet metal shop to allow them to move seamlessly into advanced sheet metal production. We’ll start with the average shop, taking customer drawings and flat patterns, making individual programs, managing the data flow manually with move tickets and routers, then show the preparation needed to develop into the facility of the future. Topics include Is my MRP/ERP capable of creating the information needed, what should be considered when moving to 3D modeling for Sheet Metal, 3D modeling meta data and its advantages, Coding; how can having programming skills in house improve what we do from day to day, New machines have Industry 4.0 but how can I really connect to them and leverage it. How can this technology allow me to reduce the time taken from order to invoice.
About This Session
- Date: October 17, 2024
- Time: 8:30 am – 9:30 am
- Room: Room S-331 C
- Level: Advanced
- Track: Forming & Fabricating
Speaker
Fred Cooke
Prima Power North America
Fred has 30 years of CAD/CAM experience and 20 years in the sheet metal industry. He began in Dublin, later worked as Manufacturing Engineer at Great Lakes Case and Cabinet, and now works as Systems Sales Manager at Prima Power, assisting factories in transitioning to advanced manufacturing systems. He has hands-on experience with laser, punch, brake, and panel bending, and downstream applications such as welding, powder coating, and assembly.
FABTECH Conference
Tracks: 3D/Additive, Automation, Cutting, Laser, Forming & Fabricating, Job Shop, Lean, Management, Marketing & Sales, Robotics, Smart Manufacturing, Stamping, Workforce Development
| Sessions | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
|---|---|---|
| Individual Sessions | $195 | $220 |
| Workshops | $499 | $599 |
| Best Value Full Conference (5-8 Sessions)
| $795 | $900 |
CCAI Finishing Conference
| CCAI Finishing Conference | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Session | $112.50 | $125 |
| 2 Sessions | $202.50 | $225 |
| 3 Sessions | $270 | $300 |
| 4-8 Sessions | $405 | $450 |
AWS Welding Conference
| AWS Welding Conference | Member Price | Non-Member Price* |
|---|---|---|
| One-Hour Sessions (W7, W8) | FREE | FREE |
| Two-Hour Sessions (W1, W2, W12, W13, W14) | $95 | $150 |
| Weld-Ed Conference (W5) | $50 | $75 |
| Half-Day Sessions (W3, W10, W15) | $345 | $430 |
| Full-Day Sessions (W4, W6, W9, W11) | $565 | $665 |
| Professional Program (W16) | $395 | $495 |
| *Non-member price for AWS Welding Full-Day Sessions only includes a one-year AWS Individual Membership. | ||
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