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Speaker at SOUTHEAST: Daniel Lyon, Product Manager, Hawk Ridge Systems

SOUTHEAST Session: Digital twins are rapidly becoming a cornerstone of advanced manufacturing, enabling companies to simulate, optimize, and validate their production processes in a virtual environment before committing to physical execution. This presentation explores the value of digital twins specifically in the domains of CNC machining, robotic automation, and the broader virtual factory. In CNC machining, digital twins replicate the behavior of machines, tools, and part geometries, allowing for precise simulation of toolpaths and real-time detection of potential collisions, over-travel, and inefficiencies. By simulating the exact machine kinematics, spindle dynamics, and tool libraries, manufacturers can reduce setup times, improve part quality, and significantly lower the risk of costly rework or downtime. In robotic work cells, digital twins mirror robotic behavior, motion, and task sequences. This enables manufacturers to program, test, and optimize robot trajectories and tool interactions virtually - ensuring safety, cycle time optimization, and maximum utilization of expensive automation assets. Collision detection, reach analysis, and process synchronization can all be handled digitally before deployment on the shop floor. At the virtual factory level, digital twins provide a holistic view of the entire manufacturing environment - integrating machines, robotics, material flow, operators, and logistics into a unified simulation. This enables strategic decision-making, accurate capacity planning, and the ability to test process changes in a risk-free virtual environment. The result is greater agility, resilience, and efficiency across the entire production lifecycle. Attendees will gain insight into how digital twins reduce risk, increase productivity, and enable smarter planning across manufacturing operations. By harnessing digital twins in CNC machining, robotic systems, and factory-wide simulations, companies can accelerate their journey toward digital transformation and fully realize the promise of Industry 4.0.

SOUTHEAST Session: Manufacturing faces an unprecedented workforce transition as the “silver tsunami” of retiring Baby Boomers and Gen X workers accelerates. Decades of institutional knowledge are leaving with them, forcing companies to scramble for ways to preserve expertise while managing increasingly complex operations. Many facilities now schedule critical work around the availability of a single seasoned technician, while others bring retirees back at premium wages just to keep production running. At the same time, new hires arrive with expectations shaped by consumer technology—anticipating smartphone-level intuitiveness—yet encounter manufacturing systems that feel stuck in the 1990s.   This presentation will share field-tested insights on how modern manufacturing systems must be transparent, modular, and designed to evolve with their users. It will also explore how manufacturers can fundamentally rethink “experience” for a new era—moving from legacy tools to adaptive, intelligent platforms that empower rather than frustrate.   Attendees will see a detailed case study of 3D Glass Solutions, Inc., where strategic MES implementation boosted yield, reduced downtime, and created systems that engaged the workforce instead of alienating it. The conversation will break down the real-world challenges, adoption strategies, and critical success factors that make the difference between results and setbacks.   The session concludes with a first look at Project Phoenix, MASS Group’s next-generation platform built for the realities of today’s manufacturing floor—without the complexity of yesterday’s enterprise software.

SOUTHEAST Exhibitor: Newman M2M is an integrator for Caron Engineering.  We specialize in assisting customers with process automation and improvements centered around; tool monitoring, tool breakage prevention, adaptive feed rate control, automated tool offsetting, and RFID tool data management. Products: TMAC 3.0:  Real-time tool wear and breakage detection system with adaptive control feed rate optimization capability. TMAC maximizes tool life, reduces cycle time, and allows unattended operation. ToolConnect: A customizable tool data management system that reads and processes RFID and 2D barcode data and updates offsets automatically, without any data-entry or interaction with the CNC control. ToolConnect reduces setup time and eliminates human error by automating the tool load process. AutoComp: Processes electronic gauge data and calculates and compensates tool offsets in the CNC control automatically; providing fast, error-free tool offset control. DTect-IT: A CNC sensor analysis system used to detect and correct anomalies occurring in the normal machining process. Prominent applications include vibration analysis, bar feeder vibration detection, bearing analysis, signature analysis, and surface roughness detection. MiConnect Technology: A flexible application builder used by our integration specialists to design custom automation and process control solutions that are unique to a manufacturer's operations. CEI Smart Light: Intuitive status light system with over 1000 available modes and programmable audible alarm; to indicate any machine status or condition. www.newmanm2m.com www.caroneng.com

SOUTHEAST Session: Most manufacturers begin their AI journey with high expectations, yet research shows that 95 percent of GenAI projects fail to create real business value. A common trap is the shiny object syndrome, where leaders and empowered employees chase trendy tools that look impressive but do little to address core operational challenges. This is why only 5 percent of enterprise-built AI tools ever make it into production. The companies that succeed take a different path. They delve into the business itself, uncovering where AI can make the most significant difference. Predictive maintenance that prevents costly downtime, quality control that reduces waste, and supply chain optimization that improves resilience are just a few areas where measurable impact becomes possible. What often separates success from failure is expertise. Internal teams, no matter how skilled, can be limited by organizational bias, resource gaps, and familiar ways of thinking. That is why internal builds succeed only a third of the time. Third-party AI experts, on the other hand, bring fresh perspectives that identify blind spots, challenge assumptions, and apply proven frameworks that raise the success rate to nearly 70 percent. With the proper guidance, AI stops being an expensive experiment and becomes a powerful, revenue-generating asset. For manufacturers, this shift marks the difference between falling behind and building a sustainable competitive edge.

SOUTHEAST Exhibitor: Visit Techniks/Parlec in booth 1632 to see live demonstrations of how our tool holding and workholding solutions increase tool life and decrease production times. Featured solutions include: * Triton Hydraulic Chucks - Finally, a hydraulic chuck built for heavy material removal applications * Made-in-USA Shrink Fit Machines - Fully automated operation makes incorporating shrink fit easy * Parlec Micron Milling Chucks - The most accurate milling chucks on the market! * M-Style Milling Chucks - Narrow nose clearances and long reaches in a milling chuck * MicroFLOAT Tapping System - Extending tap life by 300% * SFS12 Modular Shrink Fit System - Superior rigidity at extended lengths * sPINner Deburring - Automating small parts deburring * EEPM Electro-Permanent Workholding - Fast part changover, incredible holding power * HVC Face Mill Holders - 6X the coolant delivery for enhanced chip evacuation and faster feedrates * SlimFIT collet system - Narrow nose clearances and extended reaches in an easy-to-use collet system * DNA (Dead Nut Accurate!) Collet System - Perfect for smaller diameter tools See our complete line at: www.techniksusa.com and www.parlec.com

SOUTHEAST Exhibitor: JM Performance Products, Inc, the industry leader in Milling Machine Optimization, manufactures a complement of products designed to improve the performance of CNC milling machines and improve the performance of every tool used in these machines by eliminating the flaw in V-Flange tooling:  Toolholder Expansion.  JMPP's products, featuring the patented High Torque© retention knobs, maximize toolholder-to-spindle contact, thereby eliminating vibration and chatter, run-out, poor tolerances, and poor finishes, decreasing setup time, reducing or eliminating costly polishing and bench time, and increasing tool life 15% - 300% while increasing production on existing equipment 10% - 40% GUARANTEED.  If you want the best performance from your machine and tools, demand the best knobs. Retention knob sockets made to fit our over-400 different knobs, along with torque wrenches and set-up tool holders, make JMPP your one-stop retention knob shop.   JMPP's spindle maintenance products, including the Deluxe Spindle Cleaning and Ultimate Spindle Restoration Kit, make CNC spindle maintenance affordable and easy to implement in any shop. Made in the USA.

SOUTHEAST Exhibitor: SIC Marking is a proven supplier of permanent identification and complete traceability solutions. SIC Marking has been designing, manufacturing and distributing laser, dot peen and scribe marking machines since 1986. With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, we respond to marking applications for a wide range of materials like steel, carbide, titanium alloys, aluminum and plastics. SIC Marking offers standard, custom and turnkey traceability solutions for all industry professionals. Leading players of various industrial sectors have already placed their trust in equipment developed by SIC Marking's engineering team. Today we deal with professionals from automotive, aerospace, energy, metalworking, railway, medical, construction, defense and many other industries. SIC Marking is prepared around the world to help you Mark Today...Identify Tomorrow!

SOUTHEAST Exhibitor: Positrol Designs and Builds Workholding POSITROL Application Engineers will analyze your workholding problem and recommend a comprehensive solution to suit your manufacturing operation. While POSITROL custom workholding devices are tailored to meet the specifications of your individual application, a selection of standard expanding mandrels and chucks are also available to accommodate many workholding requirements.

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