Nearly 3,000 manufacturing professionals attended the launch of The Assembly Show in October at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.
Some 150 exhibitors, occupying nearly 38,000 square feet, displayed the latest assembly technologies, including adhesives, conveyors, dispensers, fasteners, parts feeders, plastics joining equipment, power tools, presses, riveters, robots, software, test and inspection equipment, wire processors, and workstations. In addition, the show hosted some 14 systems integrators, including Arthur G. Russell Co. Inc., ATC Automation, the Doerfer Cos., Edgewater Automation, Fusion Systems, Invotec Engineering, Isthmus Engineering & Manufacturing, and ixmation North America. Several contract manufacturers, including Arc-tronics Inc. and Siemens Manufacturing Co. Inc., also exhibited at the show.