National Manufacturing Day takes place the first Friday of October. National Manufacturing Day 2016 is October 7.
How is National Manufacturing Day celebrated?
To celebrate an important industry as well as educate and inspire future generations, many American manufacturers offer open houses in their communities on National Manufacturing Day. Depending on their craft, many companies are also offering seminars, webinars, open-houses, speeches, and other events to promote engagement and thought leadership in the manufacturing industry.
What is Modern Manufacturing Week?
This year a group of partners that serve the manufacturing industry through technology solutions and consulting are collaborating to offer Modern Manufacturing Week for business leaders in the industry. Terillium, Oracle, Canon Information & Imaging Solutions, CDI Technology, ERP Suites, RF-SMART, and Ultra Consultants have put together a lineup of 12 webinar sessions on technology and innovation for manufacturing. As a free resource, manufacturing executives in IT, operations, finance, and sales can join Modern Manufacturing Week from anywhere there is an internet connection.
Modern Manufacturing Week begins on Monday October 3 and ends on National Manufacturing Day, Friday October 7. Attendees have the option to join as many, or as few, sessions as they want. Topics include:
- Tips for using IoT Technology
- Accounts Payable Automation
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Customer Relationship Management for Manufacturing
- Inventory Management
- Lean and ERP
- Cloud Solutions for Manufacturing
- Ecommerce
- Keynote on Modern Manufacturing
- +MORE
See the full schedule, or register.