This Year's Sponsors

AG5 is a skills management software that connects workers, skills & machines Still using spreadsheets to manage skills and training requirements? Our skills management software helps your frontline operators manage skills, close gaps, and stay compliant—all in one intuitive platform. We are laser-focused on frontline teams in manufacturing (medical, food and beverage, defense, aviation, industrial, etc) and the complexity associated with technical skills.

BCI Global is a recognized global consulting leader in developing manufacturing footprint and distribution network strategies and location strategy & site selection consulting for production plants, distribution centers, engineering/software hubs in US, Mexico, LATAM, Europe, China and Asia. BCI has teams and offices in Atlanta, Bay Area, Los Angeles, Dallas; in Europe in the Netherlands and Frankfurt; and in Asia in Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei and India Clients acknowledge BCI’s combination of strategic thinking and operations focused action plans; its independent, result oriented and co-operative attitude; and its tailor-made, cost effective approach.

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!

DIRECTAIR®, an OTC Industrial Technologies product, is North America’s leading compressed air as a utility solution, providing reliable, efficient, and fully managed compressed air without the burden of capital investment. Designed to optimize performance and eliminate downtime risks, DIRECTAIR® manages everything from system design and installation to ongoing monitoring, maintenance, and service, ensuring consistent air quality, energy efficiency, and operational reliability.

With over 30 years of experience supporting nearly 300 manufacturing facilities and delivering more than 17 million hours of reliable, clean, dry air, DIRECTAIR® provides a single-source solution with expert technicians and 24/7 remote monitoring through the MANAGAIR® system. Designed for efficiency, reliability, and sustainability, DIRECTAIR® supports critical operations across manufacturing, food and beverage, semiconductor, life sciences, and advanced industries, allowing businesses to focus on productivity while benefiting from a predictable, scalable utility.

Enel North America is the world’s largest demand response provider, delivering 4.8+ GW of DR capacity and $1.9B+ in customer payments across North America.

We help industrial and manufacturing organizations reduce energy costs, earn revenue, and support grid reliability through flexible load management. With 10,800+ C&I sites managed, Enel provides seamless enrollment, dispatch readiness, and performance support to ensure manufacturers maximize value from their energy flexibility.

FTE Factory Advisors is a management consulting firm that was founded in 2013. Since our founding, we’ve partnered with manufacturers across a wide range of industries. Our approach is grounded in real-world experience, not theory. We don’t drop binders. We drive outcomes. Whether launching greenfield sites, turning around brownfields, or scaling throughput to meet demand, we help manufacturers move faster, work smarter, and grow stronger. As specialists in LEAN manufacturing and business culture transformations, as well as industry leaders in business systems development and implementation, FTE is committed to exceeding standards and raising the competitive bar across every industry.

Our Mission: Simply put, to help transform 10,000 factories by 2035 to see them thrive. We plan to achieve this by embedding with your team, aligning frontline execution with strategic goals, and delivering measurable outcomes where they matter most, on the shop floor.

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.

Harmoni is a manufacturing intelligence and automation platform that connects machines, operators, and operational data into a single real-time system of record. We help manufacturers gain visibility into what’s happening on the shop floor, standardize processes, reduce downtime, and drive continuous improvement—without adding headcount or relying on spreadsheets. Harmoni is purpose-built for discrete and CNC manufacturing environments, enabling leaders to move from reactive reporting to proactive, data-driven decision-making across operations, quality, maintenance, and production.

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.

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.

Kahuna is the only skills management software built for operations, learning, and human resources. Kahuna helps manufacturers manage the complexities of their workforce in one digitized system to onboard employees, identify skill gaps, retain critical knowledge, train more strategically, and deploy technical resources efficiently. As manufacturers engage with dynamic industry and operational needs, Kahuna helps organizations build a more skilled, competitive technical workforce. For more information, visit https://kahunaworkforce.com/manufacturing/.

Maneva.ai helps manufacturers improve plant performance using applied AI. We work with global and mid-market manufacturers to identify inefficiencies across production, quality, and operations—and turn them into measurable gains in throughput, yield, and cost.

Our platform integrates with existing systems and plant data to deliver actionable insights without requiring large-scale infrastructure changes. Maneva focuses on practical outcomes: reducing downtime, improving process stability, and enabling faster, data-driven decisions on the plant floor.

We partner with operations, manufacturing, and continuous improvement teams to deploy solutions that deliver ROI quickly and scale across multiple sites.

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.

Pyplan is an extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A) platform that leverages AI-powered agents to deliver end-to-end, fully customized planning processes. Designed for complex environments and Python based it integrates financial, sales, and supply chain planning in a single platform — from demand forecasting and inventory optimization to production and distribution planning. With real-time scenario analysis and predictive analytics, Pyplan enables companies to adapt fast, optimize strategies, and boost performance. Trusted by leaders like Nestlé, Danone, Coca-Cola, Arcor, Puma, and Pirelli, Pyplan turns agility and data into a competitive advantage.

SafetyCulture is a workplace operations platform built for modern manufacturing teams. It puts the power of continuous improvement in the hands of every operator, supervisor, and plant leader so anyone can see what’s running to standard, what’s at risk, and what to do about it, in real time across every line, shift, and site.

With SafetyCulture, manufacturers can equip their frontline with the tools and knowledge to run safer, more efficient, and higher-quality operations. By digitizing standard work, inspections, and layered process audits, you can spot issues earlier, reduce unplanned downtime and scrap, and keep equipment and people protected. All from one platform that connects plant-floor checks to corrective actions and dashboards so you can maintain high standards, hit your targets, and deliver a consistent customer experience every time.

St. Onge is a world-recognized supply chain strategy and logistics consulting firm. Our discovery-driven approach brings together the elements of supply chain logistics, engineering and operations to ensure that the supply chain challenges you face will be met with unique answers that fit your needs. From guiding strategy development to coordinating global logistics network optimization, each of our clients receives a custom solution.

Uncountable is the AI platform for end-to-end product development. Serving product organizations across chemicals, advanced materials, consumer goods, food and agriculture, and pharmaceuticals, Uncountable captures, structures, and connects data across the full product lifecycle, from ideation to commercialization. Unlike legacy point systems that leave data fragmented, Uncountable creates a unified data layer powering AI-driven innovation, productivity, and risk reduction. With more than 150 customers worldwide and offices in the US, Germany, the UK, and Singapore, Uncountable gives product teams the confidence to innovate and grow. Learn more at uncountable.com.