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SOUTHWEST Session: Manufacturers increasingly struggle with robotic surface finishing, treatment, and welding as production shifts toward high-mix, high-variability manufacturing. Traditional robotic systems demand time-consuming, manual programming—often taking days or weeks to accommodate complex geometries. These systems also lack adaptive capabilities, making it difficult to compensate for part variations. The result: costly manual touchups, process inefficiencies, and production delays.   Augmentus transforms robotic surface applications by combining advanced 3D scanning with automated toolpath generation. By eliminating the need for manual programming and enabling seamless adaptation to part variations, Augmentus delivers greater accuracy, reduced rework, and significantly improved operational efficiency.   This presentation explores how Augmentus overcomes key industry barriers—empowering manufacturers with precision, adaptability, and unmatched process efficiency across surface finishing, surface treatment, and welding applications.

Speaker at SOUTHWEST: Wesley Thio, Technical Product Marketing Manager, Lumafield

SOUTHWEST Session: Fusion Energy offers the potential for long-term, reliable and 24/7 available energy, using abundant fuel supplies without producing long-lived radioactive waste. How can we make fusion energy a reality? What are the opportunities and the challenges from a technology as well as workforce perspective? What do we need to do now to prepare the workforce and advance the technology for commercialization? Join this panel discussion to hear from the President of Tokomak Energy Inc., Dr. Michael Ginsberg, responsible for growing Tokamak Energy's U.S. market and strategic partnerships, along with Christian Newton, Chief of Staff for the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy, Dr. Robert Duckworth, Senior R&D Staff member in the Fusion Energy Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and Dr. Allain, Associate Director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) as they share their views on the opportunities and challenges Nuclear Fusion will need to address from a technology as well as workforce perspective.

Speaker at SOUTHWEST: Kenny Vuong, Account Executive, Integris

Speaker at SOUTHWEST: Joe Fetter, Director of Sales, Integris

Speaker at SOUTHWEST: Nicky Pettit, Account Executive, Limble

Speaker at SOUTHWEST: Tim Gicewicz, Sr. Solutions Architect, TDK SensEI (USA)

SOUTHWEST Session: Driven by the rise of Edge AI, industrial machine health monitoring is undergoing a transformative shift—enabling smarter, faster, and more autonomous decision-making at the edge. In this session, we’ll explore how edge computing and artificial intelligence are converging to deliver real-time insights directly at the source of data generation, minimizing latency and enhancing responsiveness. We'll examine traditional Condition-based Monitoring (CbM) methods and their limitations in dynamic industrial environments, then dive into how predictive and prescriptive maintenance strategies—utilizing Edge AI—are anticipating failures, optimizing performance, and reducing costly downtime. This evolution is reshaping the future of industrial reliability, operational efficiency, and long-term asset sustainability.

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