Schedule of Sessions and Special Events

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Sunday May 01, 2022
02:45 pm - 04:15 pm	SESSION BLOCK #1 - 3D Printing - Kings Row Administrative Track Speakers: Dave Seabrook & Dave Wynn Learn how 3D printing can be used to create helpful accessories in your shop! Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Dave Seabrook IT Manager Micron Manufacturing Company Mr. David Wynn MBA Chief Financial Officer ABF Engineering and Machining
	SESSION BLOCK #1 - Exotic Materials - Imperial Ballroom Mastery Track Speakers: Pete Stechow, Randy Kline & Ted Force Learn best practices on machining different exotic materials. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Peter Stechow Vice President Manufacturing Mr. Randy Kline Technical Development Valbruna Stainless Inc. Mr. Ted Force Director, Milling & Programming Medical Device and Implants, LLC
	SESSION BLOCK #1 - PRINT - Swiss - Print Provided - Hall of Presidents Job Layout This roundtable session will discuss the challenges of a specific Swiss part and the many ways to consider those challenges from both an engineering and operator standpoint. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
Monday May 02, 2022
08:45 am - 10:15 am	SESSION BLOCK #2 - CNC Swiss Focus Intermediate - Imperial Ballroom Mastery Track Speaker: Ed Garber Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Donald E. Garber National Sales Manager
	SESSION BLOCK #2 - Estimating & Quoting - Kings Row Fundamentals Track Speaker: John Detterbeck John Detterbeck will share a full picture of the details involved with the process of estimating and quoting: base knowledge and resources, to standard tooling costs, available software for estimating, working with toolrooms and tool vendors for the best pricing, suggestions about material costs and potential hidden costs. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. John Detterbeck Lester Detterbeck Enterprises Ltd./B&S Machine Services
	SESSION BLOCK #2 - Predictive & Preventative Maintenance - Grand Ballroom East Management Track Speakers: Joel Rutzen & Don Anger Is uptime important to you? Join us to discuss ways that predictive and preventative maintenance can improve efficiency, uptime, productivity, and your bottom line. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Joel Rutzen Vice President SPC Innovations, Inc. Mr. Don Anger Screw Machine Specialist Champion Screw Machine Eng., Inc.
	SESSION BLOCK #2 - PRINT - CNC Multi-Function - Print Provided - Hall of Presidents Job Layout This roundtable session will discuss the challenges of a specific CNC multi-function part and the many ways to consider those challenges from both an engineering and operator standpoint. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	SESSION BLOCK #3 - CNC Swiss Focus Advanced - Imperial Ballroom Mastery Track Speaker: Ed Garber Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Donald E. Garber National Sales Manager
	SESSION BLOCK #3 - Employee Safety - Grand Ballroom East Management Track Speaker: Miles Free III Join PMPA’s Miles Free as he reviews the Must haves for your shop’s safety program under OSHA. More than just a list of OSHA’s most frequent violations, this session looks at what OSHA requires for our industry across the organization- reporting, training, what programs and documentation you need to have to demonstrate good faith in today’s Hyper-Penalty environment. Attendees will receive an overview of requirements, links and reference documents to update or establish their Safety program. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Miles K. Free Director of Industry Affairs Precision Machined Products Association
	SESSION BLOCK #3 - GD&T Fundamentals - Kings Row Fundamentals Track Speaker: Gary Griffith This session will cover datums and datum simulators. It will then go on to cover examples of all of the functional symbols (Flatness, Straightness, Circularity, Cylindricity, Parallelism, Perpendicularity, Angularity, Circular Runout, Total Runout, Profile of a Line, Profile of a Surface, and Position. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Gary Griffith Griffith Training
	SESSION BLOCK #3 - PRINT - Cam – Print Provided - Hall of Presidents Job Layout This roundtable session will discuss the challenges of a specific cam part and the many ways to consider those challenges from both an engineering and operator standpoint. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
01:45 pm - 03:15 pm	SESSION BLOCK #4 - GD&T Advanced - Kings Row Mastery Track Speaker: Gary Griffith This session is focused on advanced principles which include Maximum Material Boundary (MMB), Actual Mating Envelope (AME), Best Fit, and Datum Shift. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Gary Griffith Griffith Training
	SESSION BLOCK #4 - PRINT - CNC Multi-Spindle - Print Provided - Hall of Presidents Job Layout This roundtable session will discuss the challenges of a specific CNC multi-spindle part and the many ways to consider those challenges from both an engineering and operator standpoint. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	SESSION BLOCK #4 - Rapid Fire Technology - Grand Ballroom East Fundamentals Track Speakers: PMPA IT Committee Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. David Wynn MBA Chief Financial Officer ABF Engineering and Machining Mr. Joseph Raker Chief Operating Officer GWS Tool Group Bridget Casey Global Manager, Information Systems and Technology Bracalente Manufacturing Group Mr. Greg McHale CTO Datanomix Mr. Joseph Jackson Marketing & Event Assistant Precision Machined Products Association
	SESSION BLOCK #4- Inspection Techniques & Hacks - Imperial Ballroom Fundamentals Track Speakers: PMPA Quality Committee Join the PMPA Quality Committee for interactive roundtable discussions on gaging. Discussions include how to choose the right gaging tool for the job, overview of calibration and accuracy of measurement, and gaging hacks. This session will be timed so each attendee will get to participate in each of the three discussions. Sharing your own experiences is strongly encouraged! Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Justin Zak Quality Engineer Corey Steel Company Mr. Ray Schnell Materials Technical Specialist Valbruna Stainless Inc. Ms. Lisa Carrothers Quality Manager H & R Screw Machine Products, Inc.
03:30 pm - 05:00 pm	SESSION BLOCK #5 - Escape Room - Hall of Presidents Mastery Track Speaker: Ron Hererra Attendees will use their best problem solving and teamwork skills to work together on a random team. These teams will go back in time, specifically to April of 1970, and become part of NASA’s mission control in Houston monitoring and supporting the Apollo 13 mission to the moon. Time will become very valuable as it will be your job to solve any and all problems necessary to ensure that Astronauts Lovell, Haise, and Swigert return safely to Earth. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Ron Herrera Mfg/Quality Engineering Erie Specialty Products, Inc.
	SESSION BLOCK #5 - Handling Military Parts on the Shop Floor - Imperial Ballroom Management Track Speaker: Cole Blumer Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	SESSION BLOCK #5 - ID Issues — Threading - Kings Row Fundamentals Track Speaker: Duane Drape Get the inside info on single point threading, thread milling, cut and roll taps! How to create them, establishing best practices and troubleshooting tips. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Duane Drape National Sales Manager
	SESSION BLOCK #5 - Materials Panel: Technical Issues - Grand Ballroom East Mastery Track Speakers: Joe Gentile, Ray Schnell, Jack Horner, Matt Schubert, & John Pechan There is more to “good delivery” of material for machining than just “good delivery.” Each material has a specification that covers requirements that apply to characteristics important to our machining and processing as well as end use of parts. Learn what to expect- and what to do- to avoid and minimize material issues that can negatively affect your processing. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Joseph V. Gentile Membership Specialist Mr. Ray Schnell Materials Technical Specialist Valbruna Stainless Inc. Mr. Jack A. Horner Quality Manager Wieland Chase Matt Schubert EVP of Quality and Sales Round Ground Metals Mr. John R. Pechan V. P. Sales Round Ground Metals
06:30 pm - 08:30 pm	Women of PMPA Dinner (off site) - TBD
Tuesday May 03, 2022
08:15 am - 09:15 am	SESSION BLOCK #6 - How to Read a Chip - Imperial Ballroom Mastery Track Speaker: Miles Free & Clay Schalk Parts are what the front office sells to customers, but Chips are what we produce to make those parts. In this session PMPA’s Staff Director will challenge you to reexamine your machining practice by learning to see and understand what the chips that you make are telling you about the process. Attendees will leave with a richer vocabulary of chip types, conditions, and how to apply this to their work in the shop. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Miles K. Free Director of Industry Affairs Precision Machined Products Association Mr. Clay Schalk CNC Swiss Machinist
08:15 am - 09:45 am	SESSION BLOCK #6 - Lightly Attended - Kings Row Fundamentals Track Speaker: Mike Petrusch Lights out manufacturing is a misnomer- but lightly attended machining is a proven way to increase production, profitability, and reduce lead times. Join Mike Petrusch to learn current best practices for lightly attended machining that you can apply in your operations. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Michael Petrusch Vice President of Manufacturing Cox Manufacturing Company
	SESSION BLOCK #6 - Macros: Best Practices - Hall of Presidents Mastery Track Speakers: Ramon Navarro & Derek Briggs Everyone knows that lean is important in our shop processes, and eliminating waste is key to profitability. But Lean SHOULD be applied to our CNC programs as well, Join Brian Such from Citizen and Derek Briggs from Tsugami to get their take on the best way to lean your CNC operations- by deploying macros. Reduce errors, reduce variability. Reduce costs. Deploy Macros Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Derek Briggs Swiss Product Manager Tsugami America
	SESSION BLOCK #6 - Supply Chain Realities - Grand Ballroom East Management Track Speakers: Roger Bassett, Don Ake & Courtney Ortner Join the discussion about today's supply chain realities: materials & logistics, navigating the domestic supply chain and international trade. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Roger Bassett Business Development Franconia Industries, Inc. Mrs. Courtney Ortner Director of Marketing - A+ Automation Team Absolute Machine Tools
10:00 am - 11:30 am	SESSION BLOCK #7 - Cobots - Kings Row Fundamentals Track Speaker: Courtney Ortner, Absolute Machine Tools How & why your employees will love them. Cobots can be seen as co-workers. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	SESSION BLOCK #7 - Practices for Upskilling - Grand Ballroom East Management Track Speaker: Paula Martel & Diane Fererra Incentives to work in our shops, explanation of progression in our shops, how to transition a machinist to oversee people. Skill delivery to wisdom delivery, mentoring program. Session must be developed from a middle management perspective. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Ms. Diane Ferrera Director of Human Resources AccuRounds Mrs. Paula E. F. Martel Outreach Manager North Easton Machine Company, Inc.
	SESSION BLOCK #7 - Spindle Time Hacks - Hall of Presidents Mastery Track Speaker: Johnny Freeze What's holding you back from getting more spindle time? In this session, Johnny Freeze will discuss ways to keep your spindles running: coolants, chip control, quick-change tooling, part families, reducing the amount of tools...anything to increase up-time. Have an idea that has improved spindle time? Bring it and share with the group! Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Mr. Johnny Freeze Director of Business Development GWS Tool Group
	SESSION BLOCK #7 - Tool Coating - Imperial Ballroom Mastery Track Speakers: Kevin Johnson & Osny Fabrico Join this session to learn more about tool coatings. See how coating is applied to a cutting tool. Get a better understanding of what coatings are best for different part materials and styles of tooling. Coating can benefit you in a number of ways. Please select the checkbox BELOW the session that you would like to attend.
	Osny Fabricio Sales and Marketing Manager Mr. Kevin J. Johnson President Fischer Special Tooling