Automation Room

Wednesday July 29th

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM:

Masterclass: Stop Hard-Coding Friction. Engineering the Zero-Trust Factory Edge

Every time you manually configure a firewall rule or provision a VPN for a factory floor deployment, you are hard-coding friction into your system.

In modern industrial automation, the bottleneck isn't robotics or data collection—it's the catastrophic latency and fragility of legacy network architecture. Forcing rigid perimeter security onto heterogeneous OT environments results in endless downtime, brittle connections, and deployments that are dead on arrival

This masterclass is the blueprint for engineering your way out of the bottleneck. Eric Seme breaks down the shift to Edge-Native Fabric, demonstrating how to decouple your connectivity from the physical network entirely. Using the EmberNet ecosystem and Flux architecture, attendees will learn how to implement an advanced, mathematically secure infrastructure that prioritizes operational flow over infrastructure limitations.

Speaker: Eric Seme

Title: CEO

Presented by: Fireball Industries

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM:

IMRs and Mobile Robotics - Bridging the gap between Automation Islands

Most plants run on automation islands — robotic cells, CNCs, and packaging lines that each perform brilliantly in isolation, while material handoffs between them still depend on people and forklifts. This session explores how Intelligent Mobile Robots (IMRs) and AMRs bridge those gaps, turning disconnected stations into a coordinated, end-to-end workflow. DiFACTO Robotics America, a FANUC Authorized System Integrator and A3 member, walks through real deployment patterns, ROI drivers, and integration considerations for adding mobile robotics to existing operations.

Speaker: Kiran Sankanur

Presented by: DiFACTO Robotics America

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM:‍ ‍

Manufacturing Reimagined: How Modern ERP is Rewriting the Rules

Manufacturers are under pressure to move faster, operate leaner, and make smarter decisions with real-time data. In this session, we’ll explore how modern ERP is transforming the way manufacturers plan, produce, and scale. Learn how a connected, cloud-based platform like Acumatica breaks down silos between the shop floor and the front office, delivering visibility, automation, and agility across your entire operation. Walk away with practical insights on how to replace outdated processes with a system built for today’s manufacturing challenges—and tomorrow’s growth.

Speaker: Nancy Bielke

Title: Senior ERP Executive

Presented by: i-Tech Support Services Inc

Thursday July 30th

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM:

Your ERP Can't Schedule. Now What? The Smart Scheduling Solution for Manufacturers

Most manufacturers aren't struggling because they lack talent — they're struggling because their scheduling and routing processes are held together with spreadsheets, whiteboards, and tribal knowledge. When a job slips through the cracks, there's no system to catch it.

In this session, we'll show you how manufacturers like you are using JobTraQ - a flexible, AI-powered workflow platform - to bring real structure to job scheduling and shop floor execution, without the cost and complexity of a traditional ERP implementation.

If you've ever had a job fall through the cracks, a deadline slip because nobody had full visibility, or a new employee struggle to figure out "how we do things here," this session is for you.

Speaker: Carl Casserly

Title: Product Specialist

Presented by: JobTraq

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM:‍ ‍

TBA

Speaker: TBA

Presented by: TBA