Join Us in Chicago
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
Job Shop
WS01: How to Adapt Lean for Job Shops: A Boot Camp for Fabricators
*This conference session requires registration and payment.
The typical fabricator is a high-mix low-volume manufacturer and operates like a job shop NOT an assembly line. Unlike any of Toyota's assembly facilities, a job shop must have the capability to be efficient AND flexible AND agile AND adaptable AND reconfigurable. Is there an alternative to Lean? Enter Job Shop Lean! This 1/2 day boot camp will (1) give an overview of Job Shop Lean and the 5-step process used to implement it in any job shop, (2) demonstrate the use of software used to plan the implementation (3) engage the audience in a learning game that teaches core concepts and practices of Job Shop Lean and (4) present a case study to the audience. During the discussion for the case study, the audience will be challenged to suggest specific solutions to the problems in the Current State of a fabrication shop that were exposed by the data analysis.
About This Session
- Date: October 15, 2024
- Time: 8:00 am – 11:30 am
- Room: Room S-331 A
- Level: Intermediate
- Track: Job Shop
Speaker
Shahrukh Irani
Lean & Flexible, LLC
Dr. Shahrukh A. Irani has developed Job Shop Lean, a comprehensive methodology to adapt Lean for high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) small and medium enterprises (SME). His first success at using his PFAST (Production Flow Analysis and Simplification Toolkit) to implement Job Shop Lean was achieved in the Houston, TX, facility of Hoerbiger Corporation of America. Dr. Irani has authored a book on Job Shop Lean (2020, Taylor & Francis) .
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. | ||
2025 Platinum Sponsors
