This Year's Sponsors

ChiAha’s Prediction Toolkit Can Help You Answer Your Factory Flow Questions. ChiAha can predict production line performance and OEE within 1% accuracy using high fidelity data-driven behavior. Get objective answers, at lightning speed, to many of your strategic questions related to the design, operation and improvement of high speed production. Let Chiaha help you accelerate your “raw data to prediction” journey!

Datch is a real-time asset management platform for intelligent frontline operations. Leveraging a breakthrough AI engine called Cortex, Datch’s Agents help workers complete their time-critical jobs with the entire body of knowledge they need at their fingertips, with a focus on speed, accuracy, and precision. For example, Datch’s Diagnostic Agent is a solution that helps maintenance technicians and operators solve for breakdowns as soon as they occur, significantly impacting system-wide availability. With offices in the US and New Zealand, Datch has introduced its technology into a growing list of Fortune 500 companies and other industry-leading enterprises in the manufacturing and utilities sectors.

Dozuki is an industry leading connected worker platform designed to help manufacturers streamline knowledge, training, and upskilling for their frontline teams. By bridging the gap between operations and the shop floor with their digital platform, Dozuki empowers workers with the tools and knowledge they need to succeed in a fast-evolving industrial landscape. Global manufacturing companies use the Dozuki platform and services to bridge skill gaps, boost productivity, and build a future-ready manufacturing workforce. Dozuki is trusted by digital manufacturing leaders including 3M, General Mills, Caterpillar, Ball Corporation, and more.

From the smallest Capex request to the largest project, Finario’s enterprise capital planning & portfolio management solution gives operations and finance teams the data, insight and control necessary to choose the best projects, streamline approvals, and manage forecasts and cash flow proactively. Establishing a single-source of truth for Capex on our cloud platform extends financial process synchronization and value creation across the wider enterprise.

Finario provides a powerful front-end project planning and strategy solution, easy integration to your ERP for automated actuals reporting, improved forecast accuracy and the confidence to readily re-deploy capital as challenges and opportunities arise throughout the year

Freshworks provides modern, AI-powered customer and employee engagement solutions designed to streamline operations, enhance collaboration, and drive business success. At the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit (NAMES), we empower manufacturing leaders with Freddy AI and our unified IT and customer support platforms, enabling them to optimize workflows, enhance service delivery, and improve operational efficiency. Our intuitive, scalable solutions help manufacturers automate processes, reduce downtime, and deliver seamless support experiences—ensuring agility in a rapidly evolving industry. Visit us at NAMES 2025 to discover how Freshworks can help transform your digital operations and drive measurable impact in manufacturing excellence.

We live in a world where you can check the weather of any city, the score of any football game, and even start up your car from your phone—so why can’t we get that same instant, automated, and smart visibility into the factory floor? Those blind spots leave huge amounts of money on the table. Guidewheel has found a way to illuminate those blind spots at scale by starting with a simple truth: every machine–regardless of make, model, or age–uses power. We first clip a sensor around the power draw of any machine (like a FitBit™ for Factories) to read the machine’s electrical “heartbeat” and provide an instant, first layer of real-time visibility into your factory floor. No disruption, no months-long deployments, no learning curve. Easily scale and keep a pulse on every factory with a powerful system that gets smarter with every machine added. Then layer on additional sensors and functionality at the pace that works for your team. Bridge the gap to smarter factory operations with Guidewheel AI-Powered FactoryOps.

IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. The industry expertise of our people and solutions, together with a commitment to delivering value to every one of our customers, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our team of 4,000 employees and growing ecosystem of partners support more than 10,000 customers around the world to challenge the status quo and realize their competitive advantage. Learn more about how our enterprise software solutions can help your business today at ifs.com

Indeavor’s solution offers clients end-to-end, cloud-based employee scheduling and absence management optimization. By integrating with your human capital management, learning management, and enterprise resource planning systems, you can leverage a robust platform with real-time employee data. Relieve your supervisors of manual tasks and the constant mental fatigue brought upon by scheduling changes by automating the entire process, connecting the data existing corporate systems, and ensuring you always have the right qualified employee in each position. Learn more and schedule a demo at www.indeavor.com.

Industrial Matrix is a tech company that provides disruptive digital solutions, offering a robust asset management and predictive maintenance platform for industrial manufacturing facilities seeking to prevent catastrophic failures in real time, maximize asset utilization and reduce operational costs. We bridge the gap between Maintenance / Reliability teams and the latest, most advanced technologies for predictive maintenance and condition-based monitoring. With a wide range of technologies and capabilities, the Industrial Matrix platform combines Vibration Analysis, Condition-based Lubrication, Ultrasound monitoring, (and many more) with the autonomous, predictive and prescriptive power of the cloud. Come and see how we put any machine online.

Innovapptive is headquartered in Houston, TX, and is a provider of a “Mobile First” and AI-Powered SaaS Connected Worker Platform that closes the loop between industrial assets, back-office, and front-line workers. Innovapptive’s integrated suite of apps unlocks productivity for operators, maintenance, and warehouse teams to maximize productivity, uptime, and growth profitability for some of the world?s largest companies. Learn more at https://www.innovapptive.com.

ketteQ revolutionizes supply chain planning with the PolymatiQ™ solver, real-time data integration, and AI-driven scenario analysis. Our Adaptive Supply Chain Planning platform enhances decision-making, resilience, and collaboration, ensuring your supply chain is always adaptive and aligned with market demands. Plan every possibility with ketteQ—the advanced solution built on a cloud-native, open architecture that outperforms legacy systems. To learn more, visit www.ketteq.com

MINDSPRINT is a leading technology solutions and services provider that continuously innovates purpose-built digital solutions enabling global enterprises to be future-ready

Our purpose is to reimagine business through a combination of talent, technology, and insights-driven services. We are a trusted digital transformation partner, delivering cutting-edge solutions that drive efficiency, foster innovation, and accelerate growth for organizations worldwide.

Our deep expertise encompasses: AI & Data Analytics, Cloud-Native Development, Generative AI,SAP Transformation, Business Process Automation, Cybersecurity, Product Engineering. We deliver impactful, industry-leading digital solutions that optimize supply chains, elevate customer experiences, and enable smarter decision-making.

Headquartered in Singapore, with offices across India (Chennai & Bengaluru), the U.S., Australia, and the U.K., Mindsprint is proud to be a Great Place to Work Certified™ company, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.

https://www.mindsprint.com/

Minitab has spent the past 50 years helping companies and organizations drive cost containment, enhance product and service quality and boost customer satisfaction with our comprehensive, easy-to-use, best-in-class suite of data analysis and process improvement solutions. Minitab tools enable organizations to uncover insights, create visualizations and foster data-driven decision making. Minitab empowers everyone in an organization, regardless of statistics background, to have access to advanced analysis with the most trusted tools.

Poka is the world’s most complete connected worker platform, built to empower people in pursuit of operational excellence. Founded in 2014 and acquired by IFS in 2022, Poka equips workers and managers with real-time access to knowledge and enables seamless collaboration on the factory floor—leveraging analytics and AI to bridge skills gaps and drive productivity, safety and quality to new heights. A trusted partner of global leaders like Danone, Bosch, ABB and Tetra Pak, Poka drives digital transformation for the world’s leading manufacturers across a variety of industries. Recognized as a Deloitte Technology Fast 50 company and the top enterprise Connected Worker platform on G2, Poka continues to unlock the power of human potential in industrial organizations. For more, visit www.poka.io

Propel Software transforms the way product companies work by unifying teams, processes, and information with a continuous product thread and embedded collaboration from concept to customer. By connecting product and commercial teams with Propel, businesses drive process efficiencies to speed time to market, improve product quality, and increase profit margins.

RSM serves as audit, tax, and consulting service providers to more than 3,000 manufacturers nationally. Our clients range across business models and ownership structures, including owner-managed businesses, private equity-sponsored companies and SEC registrants. This range covers many manufacturing segments, including chemicals, automotive and general manufacturing. The diversity of our client base provides us with broad insight into issues, with the manufacturing practice focusing on industry-specific topics relevant to your company.

Shiftboard is a global, leading provider of workforce scheduling solutions for organizations with continuous and mission-critical operations. Backed by Shiftboard’s innovative technologies, organizations can optimize workforce scheduling to lower labor costs, improve efficiency, comply with labor regulations, and create a better employee experience. To date, Shiftboard has supported approximately 740 million scheduled shifts for thousands of customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, providing the employment pipeline for more than $80 billion in wages earned. For more information, please visit shiftboard.com.

Splunk helps make organizations more digitally resilient. Leading organizations use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Organizations trust Splunk to prevent infrastructure, application and security incidents from becoming major issues, remediate threats and disruptions faster, and adapt quickly to new opportunities.

As an integrated consulting fi rm offering engineering and operations design services, we support our clients with making the best choices for their businesses and crafting the systems and operational processes that enable them to pursue those choices. While our professional service offerings have expanded over the years, our roots lie in the analysis based engineering of high-performance manufacturing, distribution and fulfillment facilities. We have incorporated this analytical approach within all of our work, drawing upon such disciplines as operations research (OR), extensive data analysis, and machine learning (ML). Our OR group focuses on the development of advanced modeling tools that allow us to speed the design process, as well as accurately model and simulate both existing and recommended solutions. Clients appreciate this unique blend of engineering and operations capability that underpins our experienced strategic consulting practice. The scope of work we perform for our manufacturing clients varies greatly. While we have experience designing and supervising implementations for new manufacturing facilities and facility expansions, we also have a wealth of experience enabling clients to streamline and leverage their existing facilities and manufacturing networks to achieve higher output and/or productivity. We offer services extending from the initial assessment of your operations through the final implementation of a design solution. In short, we can provide you with an “Idea to Shop Floor” transformation of your company’s operations. St. Onge Company places great emphasis on providing clients with tailored services. We recognize that companies can ill afford to casually undertake the construction of a new facility or the expansion of an existing facility. In challenging economic times, it is critically important that a company fully exercise its existing and potential capabilities. With this in mind, we assist clients in a full range of areas, with particular emphasis on transforming and optimizing their ability to generate value within existing facilities by applying Lean Thinking. We are not a “turnkey” contractor, but rather a fully independent engineering firm. We feel that we play a vital role in engineering the “best” solution, without a bias to equipment or vendor selected. We do not sell equipment or software. Our independence as a consulting and engineering firm focuses our efforts to support the best interests of our clients. We are best thought of as an extension of your staff, and would function as such for the duration of the project.