BUILD YOUR AGENDA

Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

At IMTS, every shop asks: what should we invest in next? This roundtable brings together Verdant Commercial Capital, CLA, and MakingChips for a candid conversation on evaluating and financing growth—plus a practical framework to help you decide what purchase actually makes sense.

For decades, CAM software has relied on the same workflow: choose a strategy, adjust pages of parameters, regenerate, and repeat. It’s familiar—but not always efficient. Programmers often spend more time translating intent into settings and iterating through regeneration cycles than actually refining the toolpath.

This session explores a more visual, automation-first approach to toolpath creation. We’ll look at how intelligent defaults, direct on-screen toolpath editing, color-coded workflow stages, and seamless 3- to 5-axis flexibility can reduce programming time and eliminate unnecessary iteration. Through live demonstrations on real-world parts, we’ll highlight where traditional parameter-driven workflows create friction—and how a more interactive model can streamline programming and accelerate production.

Designed for CNC programmers, manufacturing engineers, and shop managers, this discussion examines what the evolution of CAM workflow means for efficiency, training, and getting parts out the door faster.

The world premiere of the Micro5 XL, introducing a new dimension in micro machining with maximum precision, dynamics and resource efficiency.

Based on this machine, developed in Switzerland and in the heart of the watch & jewelry industry,
this session we will take you on a journey into the world of micro machining and its possibilities.

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The challenge with conventional metal additive manufacturing/ 3D printing is that it remains to be a rapid prototyping tool and less of a production asset. While the technology affords limitless design potential, it remains limited when it comes to process efficiency or productivity, particularly at large volumes. However, the ATLIX Team (formerly TRUMPF) introduces the next generation of metal additive manufacturing that eliminates production downtime and enables automated, multi-job manufacturing at scale. Eric Bert, President of ATLIX North America, presents on the latest generation of industrial additive manufacturing. Eric will share innovative technological advancements that allow for non-stop productivity on the largest system available (500x500x400mm). This presentation is targeted for machine shops and OEM’s with novice, beginner, or advanced 3D printing competency. 

Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

Four companies actually putting robots to work in production automation, robotic sheet metal forming, and AI-powered welding. Less about what's possible in a lab, more about what's running in real factories today: the integration headaches, the customer economics, and what it takes to scale from one cell to one hundred.

Discover the ideas and innovations transforming manufacturing. This Main Stage session will feature industry experts sharing insights on emerging technologies, workforce trends, and the future of the industry.

Defense demand is outpacing what our current industrial base can supply. Accelerated deployment of advanced manufacturing technologies can play a critical role in filling that gap. This panel will explore in detail how advanced manufacturing technologies can bolster defense industrial base capacity and, therefore, where investment capital is most needed as a key enabler of deployment.

The promise of AI robotics in manufacturing has long been out of reach for millions of businesses, especially in contract manufacturing and fabrication. For too long, the barrier to advanced automation has been built on complexity, needing large capital investments, and specialized expertise.

Join Stefan Nusser, Chief Product & Commercial Officer, as he reveals how industrial-grade, AI-powered robotic software is empowering machine shops of all sizes to tap into the incredible productivity power of intelligently-adaptive robotics, right on the shop floor. Seamlessly integrated, no robotic expertise needed. 

Moving beyond theory, Stefan will shine a light on the realities of integrating AI-powered automation into your existing and new solutions. With a focus on machine tending workflows, he will share real-world insights from Intrinsic customers who have invested in AI to deliver immediate, never-before-possible value through their solutions.

You will learn about the why of AI, in practical and helpful ways that change the way you think about building, hiring and deploying next generation solutions. Learn why this new era of automation is simple to integrate, affordable, and ready to transform the way businesses can operate and grow.

Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

Lace up and run to fund STEM education.

Manufacturing automation has reached its limits. Traditional systems execute deterministic control loops—programmed motion and rule-based exception handling. Physical AI fundamentally reimagines this approach through learned world models and closed-loop policy optimization that enables genuine autonomous operation. Discover how Physical AI combines simulation-based training with real-world learning loops to accelerate development of production-ready autonomous systems. Learn how vision-language models turn natural language into robot policies, reinforcement learning-based training can achieve 85-95% zero-shot transfer in mere hours, and edge deployment can take action reliably in the real-world. Explore how deployments expose technical constraints and gain insights into a framework for rapidly responding to these challenges.

Discover the ideas and innovations transforming manufacturing. This Main Stage session will feature industry experts sharing insights on emerging technologies, workforce trends, and the future of the industry.

New approaches to reasoning on physical design characteristics and constraints are dramatically reducing the length of the design-to-part cycle. Learn why and how this long-time bottleneck is being removed now and what it means for process planning.

Close out the day with IMTS Unwind on the IMTS+ Main Stage! Hosted by the vibrant Marley Kayden, each episode features lively interviews with industry experts, main-stage keynote speakers, manufacturers, and social media influencers. Get the scoop on must-see events for the next day and key insights to make the most of your IMTS.

Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

The greatest bottleneck in modern manufacturing is no longer machine capacity, it’s the fragility of tribal knowledge. While Lean focused on waste and Six Sigma on variance, the next frontier for the high-precision shop is the transition from a manual System of Record to a proactive System of Execution: one where best practices are captured, enforced, and improved automatically rather than living in the minds of your best people.This session introduces the Intelligent Shop - a framework that treats operational expertise as a living digital asset, not a human dependency. Instead of bolting on separate systems for quality, cybersecurity, scheduling, and compliance, the Intelligent Shop embeds them into a single production workflow where compliance needs like AS90100 and CMMC become a natural byproduct of how the shop already runs.

Attendees will learn how to operationalize their best practices into repeatable digital workflows, surface production realities in real-time, embed security and quality compliance directly into daily operations, and build an operation that can onboard a new machinist on Monday and pass an audit on Friday, all without breaking stride.

The shops thriving now aren’t the ones with the best heroes. They’re the ones that build systems that get smarter the longer they operate

In this session, Jeff will make the case that the manufacturers who thrive in today's market are the ones who show up as great teammates: delivering on time, pricing competitively, maintaining quality, and communicating with transparency. The good news? The right technology makes all of that easier. 

Attendees will leave with a clearer picture of where they fit in the broader manufacturing supply chain, what it means to be a high-value partner, and how purpose-built technology can help them drive margin, support growth, and compete on the world stage. 

Session Takeaways: Attendees will learn how to become a stronger, more connected player in the U.S. manufacturing ecosystem and what tools and mindset shifts are needed to help American manufacturing win. 

The standoff between the people quoting the work and the people cutting it, and how to finally bridge it.

Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

Kickstart your day with the IMTS Morning Show on the IMTS+ Main Stage! Hosted by the vibrant Marley Kayden, each episode features lively interviews with industry experts, main-stage keynote speakers, manufacturers, and social media influencers. Get the scoop on must-see events and key insights to make the most of your day at IMTS.

Five days, miles of show floor. By Friday, one question remains: of everything at IMTS 2026, what actually matters for your shop? The MakingChips hosts and guests break down the tech that mattered, debate what's next, and place their bets. We'll also announce who won the DN Solutions + Kennametal Machine Giveaway at the end.

Discover the ideas and innovations transforming manufacturing. This Main Stage session will feature industry experts sharing insights on emerging technologies, workforce trends, and the future of the industry.

Discover the ideas and innovations transforming manufacturing. This Main Stage session will feature industry experts sharing insights on emerging technologies, workforce trends, and the future of the industry.

Explore innovations in machining, additive, automation, digital solutions, quality and more.

See a live, end-to-end manufacturing system operating continuously on the show floor.

Your front-row seat to the people shaping the industry.

Have a particular manufacturing challenge? Have a seat and discover solutions.

Discover the ideas and innovations transforming manufacturing. This Main Stage session will feature industry experts sharing insights on emerging technologies, workforce trends, and the future of the industry.

Close out the day with IMTS Unwind on the IMTS+ Main Stage! Hosted by the vibrant Marley Kayden, each episode features lively interviews with industry experts, main-stage keynote speakers, manufacturers, and social media influencers. Get the scoop on must-see events for the next day and key insights to make the most of your IMTS.

Kickstart your day with the IMTS Morning Show on the IMTS+ Main Stage! Hosted by the vibrant Marley Kayden, each episode features lively interviews with industry experts, main-stage keynote speakers, manufacturers, and social media influencers. Get the scoop on must-see events and key insights to make the most of your day at IMTS.

Women aren’t waiting for an invitation to shape the future of manufacturing. This candid conversation brings together women from across the industry to talk about getting in, staying in, and stepping up — from the shop floor to leadership — and what needs to change to build the next generation of manufacturing.