LightWELD Handheld Laser Welding & Cleaning
SOUTHEAST Product: Made in the US to ensure full control over product quality, LightWELD handheld laser welders are designed to revolutionize your weld quality and productivity.
SOUTHEAST Product: Made in the US to ensure full control over product quality, LightWELD handheld laser welders are designed to revolutionize your weld quality and productivity.
SOUTHEAST Product: Nordfab is now offering standard sizes of a Slotted Hood designed using slotted hood principles developed by ACGIH.
SOUTHEAST Product: ZERUST® Axxanol™ 758 provides VCI and contact protection‡, while 758-NV offers non-VCI, non-staining rust prevention for sensitive metals.
SOUTHEAST Session: Your next efficiency breakthrough isn't hiding in a machine learning algorithm. It's walking around your shop floor right now. While manufacturing obsesses over AI, 85% of operations still depend on human expertise. The CNC programmer who knows exactly when to adjust spindle speeds. The veteran welder who spots perfect joints in seconds. The setup technician whose alignment cuts cycle times. These operators don't just run your processes, they've mastered them. They hold the institutional knowledge that separates good production from great production. But your systems can't see what they know, creating a costly blind spot. Mid-market manufacturers nationwide face the same challenge: valuable knowledge trapped in individual heads instead of being scaled digitally. The result is lost efficiency because operator expertise can’t integrate with core systems. Companies overcoming this aren’t layering more machine learning. They’re building systems that amplify human intelligence. They digitize workflows, connect teams to real-time data, and create interfaces designed around how operators think and work, not the other way around. In this session, Docket will reveal how shop floor digitization platforms close the gap between operator expertise and digital execution. You’ll gain practical insights into smart manufacturing systems that support your frontline, enabling faster setups, higher accuracy, and smoother production. At a time when manufacturers chase the next big overhaul, don’t overlook the team that got you here. The goal isn’t replacing human insight, it’s designing systems that can multiply it.
Speaker at SOUTHEAST: Billy Bogue, President, Matsuura Machinery USA
Speaker at SOUTHEAST: Luis Solano, Customer Engineering- Manufacturing Lead, Google Cloud
Speaker at SOUTHEAST: Andy Carr, President/CEO, SC MEP
SOUTHEAST Session: This Executive Perspectives Keynote Series session will begin with a keynote focused on Michelin North America’s workforce development strategies including the company’s unique Talent Campus program. The keynote will be followed by a panel discussion with workforce development leaders from the state of South Carolina, the South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership (SCMEP), and Industrial Motor Service, Inc. Keynote: Anton Thomas, Michelin North America, Inc. Moderated by: Andy Carr, SC MEP
Speaker at SOUTHEAST: Paul Boris, Strategic Accounts, Manufacturing, UiPath
Speaker at SOUTHEAST: Jeremy Stettin, Sales Engineer, Acquired Data Solutions, Inc.