This workshop brings together hundreds of shop owners and top managers from U.S. machine shops to focus on the business of running a machine shop.

The 2010 program is constructed to impart the knowledge and strategies to improve shop performance and increase competitiveness. Sessions range from shop operations to lean initiatives, to workforce development, to supply chain management. These sessions render concrete solutions to real-world issues, intended to spark new ideas for competing in the global metalworking market.

New for 2010 is a plant tour that takes attendees inside a world-class machine shop for a behind the scenes look at best practices, lean strategies and operations success.