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  • Day 1


  • Instructions for exhibitors & visitors RE registration. Free Coffee! Summit opens at 8 am.
    Where
    NMIS Welcome Desk

  • NMIS welcome by Nissan & SME. Awards/recognition, and keynote
    Where
    Room #206/208

  • Best Practices for Automating Bin Picking Apera AI will walk attendees through the practical realities of deploying automated bin picking on the plant floor. From workcell design and part training to achieving production grade reliability on complex, shiny, or oily automotive parts. Using real-world case studies, attendees will learn how AI powered vision guidance eliminates common failure points and dramatically reduces deployment time. Whether you're evaluating your first bin picking application or looking to improve an underperforming cell, you'll leave with a clear framework for getting it right.
    Where
    Room 108

  • Transforming Manufacturing Reliability Inspections with Mobile Robots Many manufacturing facilities face significant challenges that hinder productivity, efficiency, and profitability. Reactive maintenance, aging equipment, labor shortages, and inefficient processes drive up costs, disrupt operations, and impact product quality. Boston Dynamic's Spot works alongside your team to address these key challenges. Discover how Spot automates routine inspections to enable predictive maintenance, reduces downtime to maximize uptime, and delivers actionable insights to enhance operational efficiency, boost production quality, and achieve profitability goals. In this session, we’ll discuss: Benefits of dynamic sensing for smarter operations Improvements mobile robots offer for safety, efficiency, and predictability Real-world examples of how companies are deploying Spot Types of inspections Spot automates The ROI case for Spot
    Where
    Room 203

  • Advancements in Production Logistics Rockwell Automation’s perspective on Production Logistics integrates Autonomous Material Movement, Operations Management and Orchestration, and Simulation & Emulation into a unified approach. This session will show how these technologies work together to improve and optimize facility material flow.
    Where
    Room 213

  • Automating the moving line: a global OEM playbook for real-time 3D vision Inbolt gives industrial robots intelligence, enabling them to see the real world and adapt to it, in real time. We'll break down deployments running today at Tier 1 automotive OEMs where real-time 3D vision replaced fixtures and retuning on moving assembly lines, including a tightening station holding 0.3 mm accuracy at 80 ms latency. We'll then demonstrate how teams cut deployment from months to days by training vision on CAD in under 5 minutes, bridging the digital twin and physical execution with real-time servo control so robots continuously adapt to reality instead of executing against an outdated plan.
    Where
    Room 108

  • Best Practices for Preventative Maintenance – Bridging Legacy Systems & Preparing New Machines Predictive maintenance is becoming essential to the smart factory. Predictive maintenance enables users to more accurately anticipate when machine maintenance will be needed based on real-time data from the machines themselves. The ability to accurately track machine performance and anticipate failures before they occur is helping manufacturers improve productivity and reduce wasted time and costs. Getting on board now is critical because the gap between data-driven operations and traditional processes is widening rapidly. Early adopters gain a competitive edge through higher uptime, faster decision-making, and greater agility, while those who delay risk falling behind in both productivity and profitability. In a manufacturing landscape increasingly defined by automation and AI, leveraging data isn’t optional—it’s essential for staying relevant.
    Where
    Room 203

  • The Hidden Costs of Automation As operations move faster and automation scales, many manufacturers learn the hard way that they’ve lost control. Changeovers become harder to manage, abnormal workflows create bottlenecks, and adapting operations often requires hiring specialized labor to keep systems running. It’s like trying to drive or order food in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language. You can get by, but everything is slower, more rigid, and dependent on someone else to interpret what’s happening around you. In this session, explore the hidden operational costs of modern automation and how unified platforms help restore visibility, flexibility, and control across complex operations.
    Where
    Room #206/208

  • Towards Industry 5.0 – the Human-Centric Revolution Industry 5.0 marks a transformative shift in the way we envision the future of production, innovation, and human–technology collaboration. Moving beyond the automation-driven focus of Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0 places human creativity, ethics, and sustainability at the heart of industrial progress. It is not merely about smarter machines—it is about smarter, more meaningful integration between people and advanced technologies such as AI, robotics, and IoT, to create value that is economically viable, socially responsible, and environmentally sustainable. Attendees will gain insights into: Core principles of Industry 5.0 and how they differ from Industry 4.0 Strategic opportunities for businesses to connect frontline workers with advanced automation Technology imperatives driving the next industrial revolution, including advances in AI across the value chain Practical roadmaps for systematic implementation, from proof of value to full-scale transformation
    Where
    Room 213

  • Little Cancun On The Go - enjoy... Chivanada - enjoy... Smokin' Buttz - enjoy...
    Where
    Food Trucks - South Entrance

  • Breaking the Silos: Unifying Factory OT and IT with Snowflake and Cortex AI Historically trapped in isolated shop-floor systems, Operational Technology (OT) data is finally converging with IT in the Snowflake Data Cloud to drive next-generation manufacturing efficiency. This 45-minute workshop demonstrates how to seamlessly ingest high-frequency IoT and MES data alongside enterprise IT systems to create a single source of truth. Attendees will discover how Snowflake Cortex AI extracts immediate value from this unified data, enabling real-time predictive maintenance, automated anomaly detection, and natural language insights directly on the factory floor.
    Where
    Room 108

  • Automation for the Metal Stamping Industry with Vision Inspection In recent years customers are requesting automation at the end of Line for stamping presses due to the lack of employees or in hazardous areas with heavy weights. Linear will demonstrate real world solutions using robotics to Auto-Rack or Auto Pack parts at the end of line with accurate part count. Enhancing the end of line, we will provide demonstrations of part inspection with Vision Systems.
    Where
    Room 203

  • 3D Inline Metrology: From Dream to Production Reality Inline 3D metrology is no longer a future concept; it is a production-ready reality. This session reveals how Polyrix Surround 3D Scanning Systems capture complete part geometry in as little as 30 seconds, enabling full traceability and continuous quality improvement without disrupting takt time. Drawing on real-world manufacturing examples across automotive, aerospace, and advanced industrial manufacturing, attendees will leave with practical guidance on integrating inline metrology into new or existing production lines alongside key success metrics including speed, accuracy, reliability, and ROI.
    Where
    Room #206/208

  • Day 2


  • Loose Change on the Cushion: How Vision AI can Boost the Bottom Line 5 min: Problems across people and machines - variability of human labor, drift in machines 15 min: Pragmatic AI - how issues can be identified and acted on automatically 10 min: The Factory of the Future - how AI can help reshape the way we work. Examples from Amazon FCs 5 min; Increased Productivity pays for Safety 10 min: Implementation ease + Q&A
    Where
    Room 206/208

  • Controlling the Uncontrollable – Revolutionizing Robotic Dispensing Closer look at a challenge many manufacturers face every day: robotic adhesive dispensing—and why it has historically been so difficult to control. Introduction to FANUC Integrated Dispense (FID), and how it fundamentally changes what’s possible in robotic dispense by addressing the root causes of inconsistency instead of just reacting to them.
    Where
    Room 108

  • SEW Decentralize Technology This presentation will discuss the benefits of decentralized motor control technology in an industrial plant environment, and understanding features and motion control capabilities to decrease downtime and increase production.
    Where
    Room 203

  • From Downtime to Decisions: Real-World Use Cases for Connected Manufacturing Explore practical manufacturing use cases where connected factory architectures are helping teams reduce downtime, improve production visibility, and turn plant-floor data into actionable decisions. Concept Reply will share real-world examples across OEE, traceability, maintenance, quality, and AI-assisted operations while walking through how manufacturers can apply similar patterns in their own facilities. Attendees will leave with a clear framework for identifying high-value use cases, understanding the enabling technologies, and defining next steps for piloting solutions at their locations.
    Where
    Room 213

  • NMIS will award a winner for best booth - will you take home the honors!
    Where
    Main Hall

  • From Dashboard Sprawl to Data Clarity: Rationalizing Manufacturing Analytics Manufacturing organizations often struggle with duplicate dashboards, inconsistent KPIs, and siloed reporting across operations, quality, supply chain, and leadership teams. This session explores how a Power BI rationalization initiative improved collaboration, standardized reporting, and reduced analytics sprawl while leveraging modern governance practices and AI capabilities to accelerate insight generation and self-service analytics. Attendees will leave with practical strategies for building a more trusted and scalable analytics environment.
    Where
    Room 108

  • Blending Automation and Workforce We will look at how automation can be used to help the technicians achieve production goals where the spatial awareness of the task at hand is needed, but full automation is not feasible. A look back at a project, where location tracking systems were integrated into a PLC, and used in coordination with plant data to ensure that production techs were doing the correct task, in the correct place, at the correct time.
    Where
    Room 203

  • The Next Generation of Shopfloor Intelligence: A Vision Execution System for Every Cycle Manufacturing often operates with limited visibility into the hidden inefficiencies that impact performance every day - until now. This session explores how Vision AI enables manufacturers to optimize cycle times, improve workforce execution, and unlock a new level of operational intelligence beyond the capabilities of traditional machine vision systems.
    Where
    Room 206/208

  • Maintenance Intelligence for Conveyors: How Mighty Lube Uses Agentic AI to Monitor, Predict, Validate, and Act This session is for manufacturers who are tired of reacting to conveyor chain problems after they have already caused downtime. Mighty Lube will demonstrate how agentic AI can be applied to conveyor maintenance by combining lubrication expertise, monitoring data, predictive insights, and action-oriented workflows. Attendees will see a practical use case they can take back to their own facilities to improve uptime, reduce maintenance guesswork, and move from raw data to smarter decisions.
    Where
    Room 213

  • Hoss' Loaded Burgers - enjoy... The Pepper Pott - enjoy Yayo's O.M.G. - enjoy
    Where
    Food Trucks South Entrance

  • Beyond the Mark: The Business Value of Manufacturing Traceability Traceability is no longer just about compliance, it is a strategic advantage for manufacturers focused on quality, efficiency and accountability. We will discuss how traceability systems help manufacturers reduce errors, improve production visibility, support recalls and drive smarter decision-making across operations.
    Where
    Room 108

  • TBD
    Where
    Room 206/208

  • Day 3 Golf


  • description - includes 1 round and golf cart, goodie bag and 2 drink tickets. Mulligans and putting contest tickets available for $20/ticket. Chic-fil-A breakfast & coffee
    Where
    Old Fort Golf Course, Murfreesboro

  • details
    Where
    Old Fort Golf Course, Murfreesboro

  • lunch details, awards & prizes given
    Where
    Old Fort Golf Course Clubhouse



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Sunday to Wednesday
December 23 to 26, 2022
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