Learn how to leverage SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional’s built-in functions to help automate mundane data management tasks. This seminar will walk you through PDM Professional’s built-in tools such as Dispatch Actions, Templates, and Workflow automation. See how MLC’s proprietary EQUIVAQ tools for PDM can extend automation for additional tasks.

This seminar covers the following:

• Learn how Dispatch Actions can automate renaming/moving files, auto-checkin files, bulk editing of custom properties, and variable updates.
• Utilize PDM Templates for Folder and File creation with meta data.
• Leverage Workflows to automatically write variables to data cards, initiate tasks, and trigger Dispatch actions.
• Introduce EQUIVAQ Tools to increase automation for renaming with serial numbers, transitioning delayed files, reporting, and much more.

Learn how to leverage SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional’s built-in functions to help automate mundane data management tasks. This seminar will walk you through PDM Professional’s built-in tools such as Dispatch Actions, Templates, and Workflow automation. See how MLC’s proprietary EQUIVAQ tools for PDM can extend automation for additional tasks.

This seminar covers the following:

• Learn how Dispatch Actions can automate renaming/moving files, auto-checkin files, bulk editing of custom properties, and variable updates.
• Utilize PDM Templates for Folder and File creation with meta data.
• Leverage Workflows to automatically write variables to data cards, initiate tasks, and trigger Dispatch actions.
• Introduce EQUIVAQ Tools to increase automation for renaming with serial numbers, transitioning delayed files, reporting, and much more.

FANUC America is the world leader in advanced automation.  Partnered with ASI partner ACSYS Automation, FANUC aims to demonstrate ease of use robotics paired with advanced AI, streaming motion and VR.

Flodraulic and Maytec will provide a step by step process of creating a framing solution, from software design to hands on assembly, and who how to integrate our cobot solutions.

Brian Metzger, an Application Engineer at TriMech since 2013, specializes in 3D scanning hardware and software. He has assisted hundreds of clients in selecting the right 3D scanning tools based on their applications, providing training and technical support to ensure their success.

At PDX, Brian will speak about how to determine if 3D scanning is right for your project and needs and how to select the best scanning tools. He will perform live demonstrations of scanning parts and how to post-process the data into a useful format. Adventurous attendees will have the chance to get hands-on experience with the technology. Most importantly, Brian will cover how to integrate 3D scanning tools into existing design workflows to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance product development, setting you up for success.

Discover how AI-powered machine vision is transforming modern manufacturing quality inspection and process automation. In this interactive training session, attendees will explore how advanced 3D vision and AI-driven inspection technologies can help identify anomalies, detect defects, improve traceability, and reduce costly production errors across a wide range of industrial applications.
Through real-world examples and live demonstrations, attendees will gain insight into how manufacturers are leveraging intelligent vision systems to improve accuracy, consistency, and operational efficiency — even in challenging inspection environments where traditional vision methods may fall short.
Whether you are evaluating AI vision for quality control, robotic guidance, inspection, or process optimization, this session will provide practical knowledge and actionable ideas you can apply to your own operations.

Join R. Dean Odell—a seasoned expert in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing—for an in-depth, hands-on training session at PDX 2025. In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn advanced GD&T principles and real-world applications that bridge design theory and manufacturing practice. Dean will guide you through best practices, share insider tips on applying GD&T to solve complex engineering challenges, and provide practical examples that you can immediately implement on the job. Whether you’re looking to refine your precision skills or enhance your problem-solving toolkit, this session offers the practical, high-impact learning that modern product development engineers need to accelerate their careers.

What’s the best way to improve your 3D CAD skills?

Join us for a high-impact, 45-minute session where we’ll reveal how beginner, intermediate, and even advanced users can leverage the TooTallToby practice methodology and the CADpractice.com platform to sharpen their CAD skills and see improved modeling speed and modeling accuracy.

You’ll learn:

• How gamified skill tracking keeps you and your team engaged and developing
• How just 10 minutes a day yields measurable improvement
• Top Secret shortcuts, workflows, and time saving techniques
• Why top designers use timed models to prep for real-world challenges & certifications

We’ll walk through live examples, demonstrate our automated benchmarking tools, and give you access to pro-level practice sets. Don’t just practice—practice with purpose. Your next CAD breakthrough starts here.

Learn more: www.CADpractice.com | www.TooTallToby.com/practice

Every year, SOLIDWORKS introduces powerful new features designed to help users work faster and build better products. In this 45-minute session, Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert TooTallToby will highlight some of his favorite time-saving tools and enhancements found across the software.

Learn the basics in this “crash course” designed for anyone looking to understand the basics of Motion Control, Machine Vision, and Robotic technologies and how to apply to real-world applications and industries. 

Most hardware projects burn time and money by over-engineering the wrong things too early. In these four immersive sessions, the informal team will walk you through their concept-to-delivery playbook: how to do just the right amount of engineering to lock in industrial design, BoM, and realistic timelines. They’ll break down which engineering decisions should be made early for a Kickstarter launch — because those choices shape what you can promise backers — and what can safely wait. They’ll also provide real-world examples of what makes a crowdfunding campaign and the move to direct-to-consumer (DTC) successful. Through live demos across the tools informal uses most consistently for client projects, you’ll see the full path from first model to shipped goods, and leave with practical decisions you can apply to your own project immediately.

In this session you’ll learn:

• Master modeling in Onshape — building a master model and handling PCBA and off-the-shelf (OTS) parts, with Sam Holland, Product Design Engineer
• Rendering in Blender — design-review and campaign-ready visual workflows, with Andre Anderson, Designer
• PCBA design in KiCAD — board design and how electrical work integrates with the ME and ID teams, with Jim Griszbacher, Electrical Engineering Lead
• Launching your product in the wild—how and when to leverage crowdfunding for marketing purposes (even when you have the funding), and the DTC tools and strategies to build loyal customers with Nate Padgett, Community & Crowdfunding expert

Whether you’re refining a design, preparing to launch, or planning life after a crowdfunding campaign, you’ll walk away with a clear, practical framework for getting from idea to delivered product.

AI and automation can’t fix disconnected manufacturing workflows if the underlying documentation is outdated, manually maintained, and disconnected from engineering data. In this interactive session, Quarter20 will show how to create CAD-connected documentation workflows that stay synchronized to engineering changes and support more reliable downstream operations.

Attendees will learn:

• How disconnected documentation creates operational risk
• Live examples of CAD-connected work instructions and procedures
• Strategies for making manufacturing knowledge AI-ready
• How connected documentation improves traceability and workflow consistency

Participants will also get access to Quarter20’s 5-minute Documentation Risk Audit to identify hidden risks and provide actionable steps to improve.

Learn practical strategies for configuring and optimizing precision motion systems for automation, robotics, testing, and research applications. This hands-on session will cover motion control fundamentals, multi-axis coordination, system accuracy, and real-world integration techniques using modern motion control platforms. Attendees will gain practical insights for building more reliable, efficient automation systems.

Learn the fundamentals of linear motor technology and how it can be applied in precision automation, robotics, testing, and motion control systems. This session will cover key advantages, common use cases, basic setup and control strategies, and practical considerations for integrating linear motors into real-world engineering applications.

See how easy it can be to automate a real machine using motors, pneumatic actuators, sensors, and other industrial devices—without writing code or becoming a controls expert.

Pipeline will demonstrate EZ Motion on a custom integrated system representative of equipment you might find on a factory floor. During the session, attendees will learn how to use EZ Motion’s visual, drag-and-drop software to create an automated motion sequence, coordinate different machine actions, respond to sensor inputs, and quickly adjust process parameters.

The same approach can be used to retrofit and automate existing equipment or serve as the control system for a completely new machine.

After the guided training, attendees will get hands-on access to the demo machine and modify its program themselves. You’ll leave with practical working knowledge of how to create and edit sophisticated automation quickly—no PLC, controls, or software programming experience required. 

Radiant Product Development is an industrial design and mechanical engineering consultancy based in Tempe, Arizona, specializing in hardware built for challenging environments. The team partners with companies in public safety, corrections, fleet and vehicle-mounted technology, life sciences, and industrial field service to develop rugged, reliable products that perform where failure isn’t an option.
Radiant operates on a “Convergent Design” philosophy, an approach built around three phases: Identify, Challenge, and Optimize. This process helps clients move from ambiguous problems to manufacturable, field-ready solutions faster and with fewer costly surprises. The firm’s senior-bench team brings decades of combined experience across industrial design, mechanical engineering, and materials selection for harsh-use applications.

Follow the path of a medical device from early concept to commercial launch. Remedy Medical Manufacturing will walk through the complete Lab to Market process, highlighting the critical steps, decisions, and challenges that can determine whether a device successfully reaches patients. The session will cover concept development, regulatory approval, manufacturing scale-up, and commercialization, giving attendees a practical look at how each stage connects and what it takes to move a medical device toward market successfully.

This session introduces the fundamental DFM practices engineers should incorporate throughout the PCB design process. From creating a production-ready BOM to designing the board, panel, component placement, routing, and assembly documentation, participants will learn how design decisions affect manufacturability. The training emphasizes early collaboration with EMS and PCB fabrication partners, DFM reviews, and clearly documenting special component and process requirements to prevent manufacturing issues.

Cognex stands alone in combining advanced machine vision technology that reliably solves the biggest automation challenges with industry-leading support that makes every solution easier to deploy, maintain, and expand.

Continual innovation in AI makes that unique pairing of ease of use and advanced technology possible, from the world’s first machine vision system with embedded AI to today’s advanced transformer models and more.

Cognex machine vision solutions address the critical needs facing manufacturers and logistics providers, improving quality and reducing costs by detecting defects, reading barcodes and text, guiding robots, and accurately tracking, sorting, and identifying parts, products, and packages

Learn the workflow for creating your own injection mold tooling and developing a molding process using the Maverick 9T benchtop injection molding machine. Attendees will see how the process comes together from tooling creation through molding, providing a practical look at producing injection-molded parts on a compact benchtop system.

This hands-on session teaches attendees how to dimensionally verify micro-DLP printed parts, where critical features often live in the sub-100 micron world—too small for calipers to resolve. Using a digital microscope and pre-printed sample parts, participants will learn why traditional metrology falls short at this scale, how to properly calibrate an optical system against a traceable standard, and how to measure critical features like channel widths, wall thickness, and feature heights with confidence. The emphasis throughout is on repeatability: understanding your own measurement variance before passing judgment on a part.

Learn step by step how to set up a Universal Robot with Sick’s 3d random bin picking system. Bin picking often requires the manufacturer to be involved for a variety of reasons whether it’s because the system is complex and difficult to set up, or maybe the manufacturer requires the images to be run through their deep learning algorithms to set the system up which can be time consuming, costly, and insecure when someone else is handling you or your customer’s data. Instead, why not learn how to do it on your own so you have total control? While we will be setting the system up with a UR robot the Sick PLB system is robot agnostic, and Sick offers many different brands quick start guides as well as programming templates and examples.

Ever set up a 2d camera for robot guidance? While many cameras have the ability to do robot guidance, most were not made with robot guidance as the primary focus. This often makes setting up robot guidance more complicated than it has to be, and can leave some functionality to be desired. Come learn how to set up a Sick 2d robot guidance camera with a UR robot and some of the unique features that make this a very useful powerful way to do robot guidance on almost any brand of robot. Guaranteed to save you time and money.

Recruiters sit in an unusual position in the hiring process. We talk with candidates, hiring managers, business leaders, and people who aren’t even looking for a new job yet. Along the way, we see what gets people noticed, what causes great candidates to get overlooked, what makes companies attractive to talent, and where the hiring process regularly breaks down.

In this interactive session, we’ll pull back the curtain on how recruiters actually work and how you can use that knowledge to your advantage. Whether you are considering your next career move, trying to attract great people to your organization, or simply want to build stronger relationships with recruiters, you’ll leave with practical strategies to get better results from the recruiting process.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how recruiters find, evaluate, and prioritize potential candidates
• Discover what makes someone stand out to a recruiter before a job is even available
• Learn how candidates can build productive recruiter relationships without waiting until they desperately need a job
• Identify what recruiters need from hiring managers and companies to successfully attract great talent
• Recognize common mistakes candidates and employers make when working with recruiters
• Learn how to create recruiter relationships that provide long-term value for everyone involved