Penton’s New Equipment Digest And Machine Design To Host Online Manufacturing Webexpo And Conference

3/13/2007

NEW YORK (March 13, 2007) - Penton Media's New Equipment Digest® and Machine Design® magazines will host the Online Manufacturing WebExpo and Conference on Wednesday, March 21, 2007. This online event is sponsored by Bosch Rexroth (http://www.boschrexroth.com ), which will provide a "Lean Cell Design" Webcast for the event.

The WebExpo and Conference is free to the public. Visitors can attend educational sessions, ask questions, visit vendor booths and pick up literature - all from their offices, homes or favorite coffee shop. To register, go to http://www.newequipment.com/webexpo.

Online conference sessions will include the following:

  • “What's ahead for US Manufacturing? Overall Manufacturing Trends and Forecast” - Alan Beaulieu, Institute for Trend Research and Automation Direct
  • “Lean Cell Design” - Kurt Greissinger, Bosch Rexroth
  • “Tips and Techniques for Precision Linear Motion Systems” - Schneeberger
  • “What You Don't Know About Cylinders (and Valves)” -Tom Carlson and Rick Olson, Bimba Manufacturing
  • Case Study: “Forklift Free Reality Check: ‘What Does Lean Have to Do with It?’" - Terry Heffner, former Ford Motor Company materials manager and K-Tec

In addition, attendees can visit company booths at the virtual trade show to learn about new products, subscribe to newsletters, download white papers or literature, and interact online with vendors. Attendees that visit all booths are eligible for prizes.

Exhibitors include Bosch Rexroth, AllMax Software, AutomationDirect, Bimba Manufacturing, Bison Gear & Engineering Corp., Contrinex, Divelbiss Corp, Electro-Sensors, Enidine, Fabco-Air, FasTest, Hotwatt Inc., ICP DAS USA, IGUS, K-Tec, Kaeser Compressors, Kett Tool, Lapp USA, Schmersal, Schneeberger, Smalley Steel Ring Company, Strong Hold, Tol-O-Matic Inc., Wearell and WireCrafters,

To register for this free event, go to http://www.newequipment.com/webexpo . For additional information, contact Jacquie Niemiec, Sr. eMedia Sales and Product Manager at (216) 931-9585 or jniemiec@penton.com

New Equipment Digest is a monthly publication serving 206,000 plant operations, maintenance, engineering, production, purchasing, and administrative personnel in more than 100,000 establishments throughout the United States. For additional information, visit www.newequipment.com .

Machine Design, serving design engineers in the OEM, has been providing engineers with the most up-to-date technical information since 1929. It is published 24 times annually and circulated to 180,000 qualified design engineers. For additional information, visit www.machinedesign.com.

Headquartered in New York, the new Penton Media, Inc. is one of the nation's largest business-to-business media and information companies, serving more than six million business professionals every month. Its market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries. The company was formed through the combination of Prism Business Media and Penton Media. The new company will adopt the Penton Media brand and expects to complete the transition to this new unified branding by March 15. Its growing portfolio includes 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 96 industry trade shows and conferences and more than 500 information data products. The privately held company is owned by U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, its co-investors, and by MidOcean Partners. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.prismb2b.com and www.penton.com .

CONTACT:
Lee Feldman, Peters & Feldman
(203) 854-5848
leefeld@ix.netcom.com