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Top Shops Executive Summit

The Products Finishing Top Shops Executive Summit is a new event established to help gather the top owners, executives and managers in the finishing industry for a peer-to-peer and face-to-face exchange of ideas and practices on running their business operation in a more efficient and profitable way. The focus on the event will be on business side of the finishing industry, and will target the best practices of the best shops in North America to share their ideas and initiatives with their colleagues, all of which takes place on the heels of the annual Products Finishing Top Shops Benchmarking Survey for both the electroplating market, as well as the liquid and powder coating market. It will mark the first time that both the organic and the inorganic side of the industrial finishing sector will join together to share ideas, learn from their peers, and be recognized for their superior operations.
The Products Finishing Top Shops Executive Summit is comprised of a lecture hall where the top owners, executives and managers in the finishing industry will gather to hear presentations specifically about the business operation of finishing facilities on various topics:

Finishing Technology: information will be shared and discussed on what the best shops are using inside their facilities to obtain the most efficient results and to improve their overall profitability, including equipment and technology.
Finishing Practices and Performances: we will share the top-of-the-line practices and improvement methodologies the best shops are using in order to improve lead times, reduce scrap/rework percentages and improve customer-oriented operations.
Business Strategies and Performances: the event will dive into what some of the best and most profitable business strategies the Top Shops are using, and how they are improving efficiencies and overall performance with their strategic initiatives to help spur growth.
Human Resources and Training: we know great finishing shops stand out in terms of how they hire and retain their employees, so the conference will put on display the best human resources practices and programs that drive down costs and improve profitability.

While some technical information will be provided, the content will focus on the applications of these technologies to address business needs of the electroplating and the liquid and powder coating sectors, including examples and case studies. Production, engineering, designing, procurement, general management, marketing and sales professionals in manufacturing will all benefit by attending. Industries such as automotive, aerospace, medical, general industrial and electronics and are targets. Additionally, all those companies involved –or with the potential to be involved - in the industrial finishing sector will benefit.