Mississippi Manufacturers Association的动态

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I'm Sandy Crist. I'm the Executive Director for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership in Mississippi. Part of our mission is to work with suppliers and manufacturers in the state to connect them to new resources and new opportunities. So we started off just Alabama, Mississippi planning this and it kind of grew to four States and here we are today. We had about 150 people that attended our event and it's been very successful. We've had great feedback and the CEO and owner of Addictive Innovators. These conferences are so important because of the fact that we could network with both universities and industrial partners, as well as let the industries know what's available and what technologies can benefit their businesses. I'm Eric Hobic, VP of commercial development, Alabama Port Authority. It's just a great venue to get together. You've got different service providers, you've got vendors, you've got trucking companies, you've got port authorities out here, and it's just a great place to collaborate. Talk and, you know, talk through some of those issues and, and you'll have follow up meetings later on and, but just to be able to come together in one place is great. I'm Stewart McAvoy, I'm with Lusoria Macque, we're a supply chain consulting firm. This falls under the manufacturing extension partnership. Obviously, a lot of these manufacturers are looking to build their supply chains better, more efficient to make stronger manufacturing in the US and we're going to be part of that to make manufacturing strengthened in the US. Hi, I'm Frank Woods and I work for Google. And my role is managing partnerships that help us go to market. The challenges for supply chain are never ending, but they're constantly changing. So if you don't innovate, if you don't stay ahead of the problem, you're going to have a significant problems managing your business. Things change every year from regulation, compliance, geopolitical risk, technology. AI is the new industrial revolution. There's a lot of value in bringing it back because the topics and the challenges will always remain and always be constantly changing. This may turn into an annual event. It certainly looked like, looks like we'll be doing this again next year. And I think it's just an opportunity and a small setting for people to truly network, truly have those conversations, ask questions in an environment that's safe about things we don't know. And that's artificial intelligence. That's, you know, how do you how do you incorporate additive manufacturing into your facility and what does that look like? So I think it's just been a good opportunity to to learn new things.