Performance Solutions by Milliken

Milliken is a global innovation company and world class manufacturer that has developed proven systems that help companies improve their workplace safety, business performance, and sustainability. Performance Solutions by Milliken works alongside clients to help create gains and also sustain them long-term. Our approach is called MPS and is a proven system, founded on employee engagement, clear leadership direction, standardized methodology, and cross functional teamwork. It connects strategic efforts holistically compared to traditional singular implementation methods and works to deliver the best customer experience. Performance Solutions by Milliken offers services worldwide in a variety of industries and business segments.

https://www.Milliken.com

Siemens PLM Software Inc.

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Digital Factory Division, is a leading global provider of software solutions to drive the digital transformation of industry, creating new opportunities for manufacturers to realize innovation. With headquarters in Plano, Texas, and over 140,000 customers worldwide, Siemens PLM Software works with companies of all sizes to transform the way ideas come to life, the way products are realized, and the way products and assets in operation are used and understood. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, go to www.plm.automation.siemens.com/global/en/

Elementum

Elementum is the supply chain management company behind the world’s Product Availability platform. In today’s world, instant gratification trumps brand loyalty. To survive, brands must connect across their extended ecosystem so they can operate in real-time and deliver at the speed of customer demand. By digitally mapping the $25T product economy, Elementum’s platform sheds light on the flow of goods around the world, and facilitates cross-ecosystem execution to ensure that products are available at the right time, place, quantity, and cost.

www.elementum.com

HP Inc.

NTT DATA, Inc.

www.nttdataservices.com

Oden Technologies

Oden Technologies is a manufacturing analytics company that combines wireless industrial IoT and proprietary cloud-based analytics into one simple platform for manufacturers to monitor and optimize production in real time, from any device. The Oden data acquisition and analytics platform enables factories to digitize production and to continuously improve using clear data and actionable insights. Oden’s mission is to use data to empower the operators, engineers, and executives of the manufacturing industry to foster a culture of improvement, efficiency, and transparency.

https://oden.io

Oracle

The Oracle Cloud delivers hundreds of SaaS applications and enterprise-class PaaS and IaaS services to customers in more than 195 countries while processing 55 billion transactions a day. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), please visit us at https://cloud.oracle.com.

Sealed Air Corporation

www.sealedair.com

Sight Machine

Sight Machine enables companies to gain real-time visibility and actionable insights for every part, machine, line, and plant throughout a manufacturing enterprise. Our analytics platform enables manufacturers to use all of their data—no matter where or in what format it’s created. We do this with an automated and systematic data intake process that acquires, refines, and contextualizes data, creating a digital twin of each part and process.

www.sightmachine.com

GE Digital

GE Digital is the leading software company for the Industrial Internet, reimagining industry’s infrastructure by connecting software, apps and analytics to industrial businesses. Powered by Predix, GE Digital creates software to design, build, operate, and manage the entire asset lifecycle—enabling industrial businesses to operate faster, smarter and more efficiently.

ServiceMax from GE Digital leads the global industry of field service management software – an estimated $25 billion market worldwide. The company creates solutions for the 20 million people globally who install, maintain, and repair machines across dozens of industries as the leading provider of complete end-to-end mobile and cloud-based technology for the sector.

www.ge.com

www.ge.com/digital

Amber Road

Amber Road’s (NYSE: AMBR) mission is to dramatically transform the way companies conduct global trade. As a leading provider of cloud-based global trade management (GTM) software, trade content and training, we help companies all over the world create value through their global supply chain by improving margins, achieving greater agility and lowering risk.

www.amberroad.com

ATS

Advanced Technology Services, Inc. (ATS) is a leading global solutions provider that is driven by a reliability-centered portfolio consisting of factory maintenance, MRO and managed IT services. ATS’ commitment to operational excellence aligns its people, processes and technologies to deliver optimal productivity through decreased downtime and greater efficiency, resulting in higher customer profitability. Headquartered in Illinois with offices and service centers globally, ATS has partnered for over 30 years with companies of all sizes and industries. For more information visit: www.advancedtech.com

Bright Machines

At Bright Machines, everything we do is aimed at making manufacturing smarter and more efficient. We bring together intelligent software with flexible factory robots and machine learning to help our customers meet the growing demands of the next generation of manufacturing.

www.brightmachines.com

Competitive Solutions, Inc.

Competitive Solutions, Inc., (CSI) is an international consulting/software firm serving fortune 500 companies around the globe since 1991. Our transformation platforms of Process Based Leadership® (PBL), PBL ScoreCard®, and Leadership GPS®, have been the solutions of choice in Alcon, Lockheed, Abbott, DOD, Pfizer, Harley Davidson, Roche, Kroger, 3M, Kellogg’s and Gilead. CSI’s proven capabilities around Colleague Engagement, Robust and Sustainable Metrics that Matter, Visible and Personal Accountability Systems, and Communication Cadences that actually move the business forward, have made us the consulting partner of choice in the Manufacturing Industries. Our simple and sustainable turnkey solutions, leave nothing to chance and provide even the most advanced organization ideas and suggestions for simplification, continuous improvement and most importantly, bottom line impact.

Dassault Systems

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE® Company, serves 210,000 users across 140 countries, providing virtual universes for sustainable innovation. DELMIA is a Dassault Systèmes brand that delivers Digital Continuity across the virtual and real worlds of manufacturing to engineer, operate, and optimize your global industrial processes.

DELMIA Engineering applications drive manufacturing innovation by virtually defining, planning, creating, monitoring, and controlling all production processes.

DELMIA Operations solutions help global manufacturers transform their global operations to achieve and sustain operational excellence. The Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) platform supports continuous improvement initiatives by delivering real-time visibility into, control over and synchronization across manufacturing, quality and supply chain.

DELMIA Optimization capabilities enable finite capacity planning, scheduling, synchronization and optimization for complex and batch business processes across all planning horizons.

www.3ds.com.

East Montgomery County Improvement District

The East Montgomery County Improvement District (EMCID), located northeast of Houston, is a political subdivision of the state of Texas responsible for promoting economic and community development. Our 500-acre industrial park — located just minutes from the Texas Medical Center, the Grand Parkway, Bush Intercontinental Airport and the Port of Houston — has sites available for business expansion opportunities. We offer extensive financial incentives, an available workforce, and an outstanding logistic infrastructure that are especially attractive for your expansion needs. Call 281-354-4419 for further details and development opportunities.

https://www.emctx.com

Harvest Group LLC

Harvest Group LLC, headquartered in Germantown, Tennessee, was founded in 2002 by Wes Bowen and Rudy Watkins. Bowen and Watkins use their extensive experience to maximize their clients’ yield on investments and shareholder value through best practices in economic development, incentive negotiations and site selection.

The majority of Fortune 500 companies walk past millions in incentive dollars every year. Harvest Group’s goal is to not only ensure money is not being left on the table, but to maximize their client’s incentive opportunities throughout the entire organization.

Harvest is skilled in the creation and implementation of economic development incentive strategies throughout a company’s multi-year business strategy and capital investment budget. Economic Development Incentives are offered in anticipation of continued operation, capital investment, job retention, job creation and/or other economically beneficial business activity.

Harvest services include but are not limited to identifying and creating incentive generating projects, creating the economic development story to leverage those opportunities, managing the site selection process and infrastructure needs (if applicable), negotiating the incentive offer with the governing authorities, managing the agreements as well as handling the incentive compliance on a forward looking basis to ensure no intended benefit is lost.

Harvest clients include Caterpillar, ConAgra, Stanley Black and Decker, International Paper, Coca-Cola United, Goodyear, GE and many more. The company has had unprecedented success in helping clients accelerate and grow ROI from their capital investment through deployment of incentive best practices throughout the organization. Harvest’s approach exponentially increases incentive realization.

Core Products and Services:
• Incentive Negotiation
• Capital Budget Based Incentive Management
• Federal New Market Tax Credit
• Site Selection

www.harvestgroupllc.com

IFS

IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. The industry expertise of our people and solutions, together with commitment to our customers, has made us a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our team of 3,500 employees supports more than one million users worldwide from a network of local offices and through our growing ecosystem of partners. For more information, visit: IFSworld.com

Infor (US), Inc.

Infor Workforce Management™ helps manufacturing companies of all sizes effectively manage the range of workforce data variables and evolving demands to optimize labor, reduce cost, improve service levels, and increase employee productivity; dynamic and automatic on a leading-edge digital platform. Workforce activity-based costing, shop floor automation, scheduling, time and attendance, compliance, and mobile employee components give managers and workers the right information at the right time to support current business strategy decisions, to drive greater value from workforce operations and employee engagement. Learn more at Infor.com/wfm.

Infor builds beautiful business applications with last mile functionality and scientific insights for the various industries, including the manufacturing industry. With 15,000+ employees and customers in more than 200 countries and territories. Infor automates critical workforce management processes and helps eliminate the need for customization through embedded industry domain expertise.

Intrigo Systems

Intrigo Systems, Inc. is a premier SAP partner and a leading provider of Advisory, Implementation, and Managed Services. Intrigo has partnered and co-innovated with SAP in the design of the SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization component, SAP Integrated Business Planning, and the SAP Ariba® Supply Chain Collaboration for Buyers solution. Intrigo has a hands-on leadership team who collectively have over 120 successful SAP software implementations to their credit. These include: SAP Integrated Business Planning, SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization, SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration for Buyers, SAP ERP (including SAP S/4HANA® and SAP Hybris® solutions) and analytics for industries as varied as High-tech, Fashion, Consumer Products, Manufacturing, Chemicals, Pharma, and Automotive. Our clients include Broadcom, NVIDIA, Dolby, Nike, Clorox, Albemarle, and ASR among others.

www.intrigosys.com

Motorola Solutions

Today, the power of unified communications is expanding beyond the traditional office space and into the commercial and industrial areas where the revenue generation for many enterprises actually takes place. One platform. One provider. All your communications equipment. Connect all teams instantly, from any network or device, and with added intelligence with Team Communications from Motorola Solutions.

www.motorolasolutions.com/manufacturing

OpenText

OpenText operates the world’s leading supply chain integration network.  OpenText Business Network connects more than 600,000 businesses that execute in excess of 24 billion transactions per year valued at $8 trillion in direct spend around the globe.  OpenText offers managed services and software to facilitate efficient, secure and compliant collaboration between people, systems, and things.  We provide the necessary digital foundation for automating, and insight for optimizing, supply chain processes across your extended ecosystem.  From order management, multi-modal shipment visibility, global e-invoice compliance, and community onboarding, to advanced supply chain analytics, OpenText offers proven solutions that accelerate your time to market and reduce supply chain risk.

Rockwell Automation

We are the largest company in the world that is dedicated to industrial automation and information. Across the globe, our flagship Allen-Bradley® and Rockwell Software® product brands are recognized for excellence.

Our keen focus on technology innovation, domain expertise, and integrity and corporate responsibility fuels our success.

How we bring The Connected Enterprise to life:

We integrate control and information across the enterprise to help industrial companies and their people be more productive. It is the way that we bring The Connected Enterprise to life.

Our approach begins with a deep understanding of your best opportunities for productivity. Next, we combine our differentiated technology and domain expertise to deliver the positive business outcomes most important to you. Then, we work to boost your productivity. How? We simplify your experience with us at every step, from initial solution development through services and support.

www.rockwellautomation.com

SherTrack, LLC

Demand-Pull Planning & Scheduling with SherTrack SNAPPS™ E2E. SherTrack SNAPPS™ E2E delivers efficient Lean Pull end-to-end supply chain execution and related functionality to help businesses operate complex multi-tier supply networks with maximum agility and efficiency. Explore how Global 100 manufacturing companies are currently leveraging SNAPPS™ cloud based solution to operate complex supply networks with increased agility, efficiency and reliability.

https://shertrack.com

Software Motor Corporation

Software Motor Company (SMC) is the world-leading provider of ultra-high-efficiency motors that feature a patented, software commutated, high rotor pole switched reluctance motor system. The company was founded in Silicon Valley to bring the benefits of the Internet of Things secure wireless networking and big data to electric motors, which collectively consume over 45 percent of global electricity. SMC motors are easy-to-install and integrate with new and legacy HVAC, refrigeration, and pumping systems, and deliver energy savings that are 20 to 50 percent higher than existing NEMA Premium Efficiency solutions.

www.softwaremotorcorp.com

Solve

At Solve and Visual Decisions, we provide transformational solutions/services from the shop floor to the executive suite. Our solutions support companies looking to implement the latest Industry 4.0 and Machine Learning techniques through those companies that are focused on getting great at the basics. We are laser focused on helping the customer achieve value with these solutions/services. We begin each engagement by identifying the root causes for the current levels of performance and building a roadmap to breaking through each of those barriers.

Whether the solution involves the Industrial Internet of Things, Supplier Performance, Business Performance Management or Machine Efficiency, we will help you ensure that your people and processes are able to take advantage of the new capabilities to drive enhanced business performance. Our core philosophy is to Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast and Drive Value while leveraging our technical expertise with Microsoft and Qlik Platforms.

www.solve100.com

Sparta Systems Inc.

Founded in 1994, Sparta is the world’s premier provider of cloud and on-premise quality management software. We offer the solutions, analytics, and expertise that speed up quality and compliance. Our QMS solutions help to lower risk, increase efficiency, and keep consumers safe while allowing manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors to collaborate in a seamless and integrated environment. Sparta is privately owned and headquartered in Hamilton N.J, with offices across Europe and Asia. We support close to 1 million users across 700+ implementations, in more than 30 countries. Companies in life sciences and medical devices, consumer products, discrete manufacturing, and more rely on Sparta. Learn why at www.spartasystems.com

Tooling U-SME

Tooling U-SME delivers versatile, competency-based learning and development solutions to the manufacturing community, working with more than half of all Fortune 500® manufacturing companies, as well as educational institutions across the country. Tooling U-SME partners with customers to build high performers who help their companies drive quality, productivity, innovation, and employee satisfaction.  A division of SME, an organization that connects people to manufacturing solutions, Tooling U-SME can be found at toolingu.com or on Facebook (facebook.com/toolingu) and Twitter (twitter.com/toolingu).

Vodafone

Vodafone is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies and provides a range of services including voice, messaging, data and fixed communications. Vodafone Group has mobile operations in 26 countries, partners with mobile networks in 49 more, and fixed broadband operations in 19 markets. Vodafone IoT transforms lives and businesses by providing a wide range of end to end IoT solutions.Vodafone is leading the IoT market connecting more devices than any other global carrier with over 62 million IoT connections. Vodafone IoT brings together unrivalled capabilities – the world’s largest communications network, an outstanding offering and vast experience. Vodafone offers a wide range of end to end IoT solutions and makes IoT simpler by bringing together exactly the right mix of partners. These solutions simplify IoT for customers as they contain high quality hardware and/or software together with pre-configured IoT connectivity services tested, supplied and supported by Vodafone.

www.vodafone.com/iot

XCelerant Consulting

Auros Knowledge Systems

Auros Knowledge Systems is the leading enterprise solution to manage intelligent technical memory through an active knowledge system, Knowledge Aware Engineering. By converting traditional libraries into ‘Active Knowledge,’ Auros software has rapidly become the go-to solution to provide value across multiple disciplines, including design, engineering, manufacturing, quality, and plant operations. With over 36,000 active users globally, Auros is used by many manufacturing industries, such as: automotive, aerospace & defense, consumer products, industrial, power generation, medical devices, heavy manufacturing, ship building, and high-tech / electronics.

Knowledge Aware Engineering is a fundamentally different approach to managing technical knowledge. It replaces the traditional, passive strategies with an integrated, active knowledge system, that directly influences technical decision making and analysis, across teams, languages, and time. It calculates what specific know-how is needed for a task or decision, and then pushes the knowledge into the technical workflow in an automatic, low-effort, integrated way. Knowledge Aware Engineering helps eliminate recurring mistakes, preserve and share knowledge, improve engineering efficiency, reduce undesirable engineering variation, and reduce the enterprise IT footprint.

For more information about Knowledge Aware Engineering, visit www.aurosks.com.

Dozuki

Dozuki builds software that helps companies implement a continuous improvement culture to improve their people, their processes, and their communication.

Their software leverages visual formatting, data collection, and automated approval processes to help companies get more from their work instructions. They have helped hundreds of companies reduce the cost of mistakes by 40%, reduce training time by 90%, and achieve and maintain ISO compliance.

IQS, Inc

IQS Quality Management Software provides an enterprise-wide framework for quality and compliance management that yields actionable insight into performance, cost of quality, and risk-related metrics including real-time visibility on supplier quality and customer satisfaction.  By reducing the effort required to meet compliance and regulatory mandates, IQS enables companies to Improve performance, deliver tangible results, save costs by streamlining processes, and reduces the potential for nonconformance is production  Engineered to elevate the quality management system into a strategic business tool, IQS enterprise software has integrated functionality covering every aspect of quality and compliance, ideal for the automotive industry.

www.iqs.com

Lantek Systems, Inc.

Lantek Sheet Metal Solutions integrates the most advanced nesting software in the industry with the highest standards in manufacturing management solutions. Lantek provides CAD/CAM/MES/ERP software solutions for companies fabricating sheet metal, tubes, and beams with any cutting (laser, plasma, oxy-cut, water jet, shear) and punching technology.

With over 20,000 customers in more than 100 countries and offices in 14 countries, Lantek serves as a pioneer of Industry 4.0 solutions for the Sheet Metal Fabrication industry. Having 30+ years in the industry, Lantek has fostered partnerships with Machine Tool Builders and other large manufacturers to ensure our solutions improve your systems seamlessly no matter the size of your shop.

Visit our website at www.lanteksms.com or call our office at (877) 805-1028 for more information.

MCA Connect

MCA Connect, Microsoft Dynamics’ #1 US Manufacturing Partner, guides manufacturers through Industry 4.0 with proven processes, industry experts and powerful technology.

We work with leading manufacturers, such as Dell, Winnebago and Kodak, to deliver digital transformation, resulting in millions of dollars saved in ROI.

www.mcaconnect.com

Minitab

www.minitab.com

OTTO Motors

With OTTO, you can move more with less people. OTTO is a self-driving vehicle, like the Google Car, but it’s built for industrial material movement jobs like bringing raw materials to the line, cross docking pallets, and moving parts between processes. OTTO can reduce or eliminate FTE labour spend on low-value work through innovative and flexible automation so you can redeploy those workers to higher-impact jobs.

www.ottomotors.com

Poka

www.poka.io

Praemo/Vuzix

Praemo is revolutionizing how industrial companies think about the role of digital technology inside their operations. Praemo helps customers reduce equipment downtime, optimize production processes, and manage risks. This results in improved productivity, lower costs, and more sustainable operations overall. Praemo’s technology, RazorTM, processes data from customer’s machines and backend systems to deliver Predictive Analytics and Prescriptive Intelligence. Praemo’s mission is to deliver sustainable productivity and cost improving technology in an intuitive and cost-effective method.

Vuzix is a leading supplier of Smart-Glasses and Augmented Reality technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets. The Company’s products include personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high-quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and augmented reality. Vuzix holds 59 patents and 42 additional patents pending and has won CES awards for innovation for the years 2005 to 2018. Vuzix is a public company (NASDAQ: VUZI).

SAI Global

www.saiglobal.com

Upskill

Upskill is the market leader in enterprise software for augmented reality devices in industrial settings. Trusted by the world’s greatest companies, such as GE and The Boeing Company, both also investors, and many others, our technology enhances the capabilities of hands-on workers to measurably and immediately improve business operations from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite. With our industrial platform, Skylight, workers can be connected to the information they need to do their jobs with greater efficiency and fewer errors, enabling businesses to become more agile and competitive. Upskill is regularly recognized nationally and internationally for its technology and team; recent awards include World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gartner Cool Vendor, IDC Innovator, and CNBC Disruptor 50 Honorable Mention. To learn more, visit upskill.io.

Elutions

www.elutions.com

Securicon

Securicon provides expert consulting for network, system, application and device security, as well as physical security testing and assessments. Services include penetration and vulnerability assessments, application security evaluations, security architecture and compliance consulting.

Our heritage originates from the U.S. DoD, Intel Community, Federal government and corporate critical infrastructure industries. We leverage our Industrial Control System and Critical Infrastructure experience to help the Federal Government develop Information Security Programs.

The driving force behind our success is our highly-qualified and knowledgeable Information security-engineering professionals. We help our customers cost-effectively manage risk by serving as their trusted advisor and operating as an extension of their information security teams, without bias toward any product, vendor or service.

securicon.com