https://www.robots.com/craftAdmin/entries/blogs/4383-integrate-a-robot-in-five-steps?site=en_usFABTECH -An Event You Don't Want to Miss!

In Novem­ber, the largest met­al form­ing, fab­ri­cat­ing, weld­ing, and fin­ish­ing event will head to McCormick Place in Chica­go, IL. The FABTECH event is expect­ed to cov­er more than 750,000 net square feet and is expect­ing more than 50,000 atten­dees and 1,700 exhibit­ing com­pa­nies. It is the place to broad­en per­spec­tives, view live prod­uct demon­stra­tions, attend expert edu­ca­tion pro­grams, and have access to unlim­it­ed net­work­ing opportunities. 

It all began in 1981 as a region­al trade show serv­ing a few hun­dred attend­ing com­pa­nies. Slow­ly, it expand­ed to North America’s most author­i­ta­tive event for met­al form­ing, fab­ri­cat­ing, weld­ing and fin­ish­ing. It now includes the AWS Weld­ing Show, the MET­AL­FORM trade show, and the Chem­i­cal Coaters Association. 

FABTECH serves the small­est job shops seek­ing a com­pet­i­tive edge to high lev­el com­pa­ny exec­u­tives, hop­ing to improve busi­ness­es of all sizes. The great event will exhib­it the lat­est tech­nolo­gies and inno­va­tions in equip­ment, prod­ucts and ser­vices, and exten­sive indus­try tar­get­ed edu­ca­tion. There are hun­dreds of new prod­ucts intro­duced each year on the expo­si­tion floor, includ­ing arc weld­ing, assem­bly, bend­ing and form­ing, cut­ting, paint and pow­der coat­ing, mate­r­i­al han­dling, and resis­tance weld­ing.

The mis­sion of FABTECH is to bring togeth­er sell­ers and buy­ers at a venue to help facil­i­tate busi­ness rela­tion­ships, net­work­ing, edu­cat­ing, and the buy­ing process. It is a trade show you don’t want to miss as the guests will be intro­duced to world-class sup­pli­ers, have the lat­est indus­try prod­ucts and devel­op­ments for view­ing, and help guests dis­cov­er new solu­tions and tools that will help increase pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and profits.

Each year vis­i­tors can attend the cut­ting edge edu­ca­tion­al ses­sions, infor­ma­tive keynote speech­es, and oth­er spe­cial events. The edu­ca­tion­al ses­sions are two hours in length and offer prac­ti­cal knowl­edge that can imme­di­ate­ly be used. They range from a vari­ety of top­ics to include cut­ting, laser, fin­ish­ing, form­ing and fab­ri­cat­ing, man­age­ment, job shop solu­tions, etc. are co-spon­sored by the Fab­ri­ca­tors & Man­u­fac­tur­ers Asso­ci­a­tion, Int’l (FMA), SME (for­mer­ly known as Soci­ety of Man­u­fac­tur­ing Engi­neers), Pre­ci­sion Met­al­form­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (PMA), Amer­i­can Weld­ing Soci­ety (AWS), and Chem­i­cal Coaters Asso­ci­a­tion Inter­na­tion­al (CCAI). Addi­tion­al­ly, the Amer­i­can Weld­ing Soci­ety (AWS) pro­vides a large weld­ing edu­ca­tion­al line­up. This is led by the industry’s top pro­fes­sion­als and focus­es on best prac­tices and new com­mer­cial devel­op­ments in weld­ing and ther­mal spray.

The rep­re­sen­ta­tives at Robots​.com are ready to assist you by lis­ten­ing to your spe­cif­ic needs and help iden­ti­fy an auto­mat­ed sys­tem that will ensure the increase of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, reli­a­bil­i­ty, through­put, and safe­ty. For more infor­ma­tion or ques­tions, please con­tact Robots​.com rep­re­sen­ta­tives online or at 877−762−6881.