About This Conference:

The Northeast Region NTMA Conference has been created to bring leaders from the precision custom manufacturing industry together to learn, share, network, and to strengthen our cohesion and collaboration as a group. Organized by the 4 New England NTMA Chapters, the goal is to create an event, modeled after the successful NTMA national conferences, that will offer attendees opportunities to build relationships and business knowledge on a more local level.

We encourage any company involved in the industry to join us in Mystic at this first of a kind event.

Together Everyone Achieves More!

About NTMA:

The National Tooling & Machining Association is the largest trade association in the U.S. serving the custom metalworking industry since 1943. NTMA members supply the parts, tools and molds that go in to the creation of every manufactured product in the world and serve vital industries such as defense, aerospace, agriculture, automotive, construction and many more. For more info on NTMA programs & services, go to

www.ntma.org

Best Practices in Recruiting Your Future Workforce - Harry Moser, President Agie Charmilles Corp.

Finding and keeping skilled employees is a challenge for all of us. U.S. shops need about 5% more precision machinists and tool and die makers than are currently available. This shortage will continue to expand as we retire more employees than we train. I will present the best practices and tools for recruiting the quality and quantity of future workers needed to keep our shops and country competitive. I will also provide arguments to help you convince schools and colleges to strengthen their manufacturing programs to train these recruits.

Harry Moser, President of Agie Charmilles Corp., was President of Charmilles Technologies Corporation since 1985. Agie Charmilles is North America’s largest supplier of EDM machine tools and 3 and 5-axis High Speed CNC mills.  Charmilles and Harry are national leaders in the fight to attract more of America’s youth into the manufacturing trades. Harry regularly writes and speaks on issues such as international trade, importance of manufacturing for the future of the U.S. economy and how to compete with Southeast Asia.

Saturday, May 19 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

NTMA Update - Jeff Kelly, NTMA 2007 Chairman of the Board, President - Hamill Mfg. Co.

There is a lot going on at NTMA and you’ll hear about it first hand from the newly elected Chairman, Jeff

Kelly. Jeff will update us on new NTMA initiatives such as the new workforce training project; existing programs like NTMA Metalworking Insurance and BotsIQ, and upcoming events including the 2007 Legislative Conference in June and the Technical Conference in September in conjunction with the American Manufacturing Expo. Jeff is passionate about workforce training and will speak with us about his NTMA Chairman’s theme: Building a Skilled, Productive, and Loyal Workforce For The Future.

Jeff Kelly is President and majority owner of Hamill Manufacturing Company located in Penn Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Hamill is a precision machining and fabricating company that serves the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and other defense related companies, the glass mold industry, the power generation industry, the aerospace industry, and other industries requiring high degrees of precision and quality. Hamill was a founding member of the NTMA Pittsburgh Chapter and has been a member of the NTMA since 1977.