August 26-28 * The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) is offering how-to workshops aimed at helping companies use a value stream focus to implement lean production. Workshops to be held at the Hyatt Regency Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, include Value Stream Mapping, Creating Continuous Flow, Pull/Kanban Systems, Learning to Count and Mixed Model Value Streams. Contact: LEI, P.O. Box 9, Brookline, MA 02446, telephone (617) 713-2900 or online at www.lean.org.
August 28-31 * Organized by the Hong Kong Mould & Die Council and Business & Industrial Trade Fairs Ltd., the 2nd international mold and die making and manufacturing technology exhibition for Asia, Mould & Die Asia 2002, will take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Hong Kong. Exhibits will include molds and dies; mold and die processing machines; surface treatment; metal finishing; measuring/testing and control equipment; CAD/CAM/CAE; and more. Contact: Business & Industrial Trade Fairs Ltd., Unit 1223, 12/F, HITEC, [Trademark Drive, Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, telephone (852) 2865-2633 or e-mail promotion@bitf.com.hk.
September 4-11 * The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2002) will take place at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the show, which is sponsored by AMT--The Association For Manufacturing Technology. The pavilions at the show will include abrasive machining/sawing/finishing; gear generation; metal forming and fabricating laser; metal cutting; EDM; machine components! cleaning/environmental; quality assurance; tooling and workholding systems; and controls and CAD/CAM. For more information about the show, please see our coverage beginning on page 82. Contact: IMTS, 7901 Westpark Drive, McLean, VA 22102, telephone (703) 893-2900 or online at www.IMTSNET.org.
September 4-11 * The IMTS 2002 Manufacturing Conference, organized and sponsored by The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), will be held with IMTS 2002 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. Six separate conference tracks with more than 65 sessions will be offered during the week of IMTS. Conference tracks focus on quality; machining; grinding and abrasives; tooling; job shops; and manufacturing strategies. Contact: SME, One SME Drive, Dearborn, MI 48121, telephone (313) 271-1500 or online at www.sme.org/imts.
September 4-11 * IMT 2002, the International Fair of Machine Tools and Forming Machines, will be held jointly with MSV 2002, the International Engineering Exhibition, at Brno Exhibition Centre in Brno, Czech Republic. Contact: Bmo Trade Fairs, Vystaviste 1, 647 00 Brno, Czech Republic, telephone (420) 5-41152926 or online at www.bvv.cz.
September 22-24 * Manufacturing equipment suppliers will have access to Southwest markets during the Las Vegas Machine Tool Exposition at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada. The exposition will feature machine tools and metalworking technologies. Equipment represented will include machining centers, milling centers, lathes, flexible manufacturing systems, cutting tools and inserts, drilling and tapping, EDM, CAD/CAM, turning, controls, grinding and deburring, fabricating equipment, and more. Contact: Machine Tool Expo, LLC, P.O. Box 530306, Henderson, NV 89053, telephone (702) 566-7300 or e-mail yeatmte@earthlink.net.
September 25-28 * Machine Tool Indonesia, the 16th international tool, metalworking and allied industries exhibition incorporating Welding Indonesia, will take place at the Jakarta International Exhibition Centre, Kemayoran. Contact: Overseas Exhibition Service, 11 Manchester Square, London WlU 3PL, telephone (44)20-7862-2090 or online at www.montnet.com.
...more conference and seminar listings are available online in MMS Online: www.mmsonline.com/calendar
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