Training Sessions

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.