ASME develops conference program at National Manufacturing Week

ASME played a significant role both in developing the technical program at last month's National Manufacturing Week (NMW) in Chicago and in its activities on the exhibition floor, where more than 28,000 engineers and others in related fields strolled the exposition.

This year, for the first time, ASME was responsible for assembling the technical conference program of NMW.

L-R: John Stuttard, Industry VP, NMW, ASME Past President William A. Weiblen and National Association of Manufacturers President Jerry Jasinowski opened the show.

In all, more than 60 technical sessions were divided among five engineering tracks: Design Engineering/Design for Manufacturing; Manufacturing and Industrial Automation; Plant Engineering and Maintenance Management; Enterprise IT, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, CRM; and Executive Management.

The ASME/Mechanical Engineering magazine booth on the exhibit floor included the participation of the membership department, the Continuing Education Institute, Codes and Standards and technical publishing.

The booth provided a central location to tout ASME activities to visitors and showcase the benefits of membership. Also at the booth, Mechanical Engineering magazine conducted a survey of engineering hardware and software usage, garnering some 360 responses.

The ASME/ME magazine booth.

 

 

Traffic to the ASME booth on the exhibit floor was driven by the presence of GEM, a newly introduced all-electric vehicle made by Global Electric Motorcars LLC, a Daimler/Chrysler company. ME magazine had an article on the automobile in its March issue, 5,000 of which were distributed at the show.

ASME Past-President Bill Weiblen, who was on hand to preside over NMW's opening, delivered a technical session entitled, "A Futuristic Paperless Factory — The Virtual Workplace."

Design Engineering was the conference track with the highest attendance. More than 300 people attended 11 sessions. Of them, "Lean Design for Lean Manufacturing" had the most attendees.

The 11 sessions in the Executive Management track had the second highest total attendance with 190. The session, "The Performance-Driven Enterprise — Implementing and Executive Dashboard," drew the greatest number of attendees within that track.

Sessions within the Plant Engineering and Maintenance Management track were next with 155 in attendance throughout the conference, followed by the Enterprise Information Technology, Supply Chain and Logistics Management track.

 

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