7 Innovations Seen and Heard at the Pacific Design & Manufacturing Show

Feb. 8, 2017
Here are seven highlights from the Pacific Design & Manufacturing Show that made our engineers stop and take notice.

The Pacific Design & Manufacturing Show, which takes place every year in Anaheim, Calif., is a combined function playing host to numerous co-located events: the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M West), Automation Technology West, West PACK, Plastec West, and Electronics West. The six events bring together a varied group of designers and engineers to focus on the technology innovations for the upcoming year. This year’s focus on the advances on Smart Manufacturing is certainly a big draw with several automation and robotic experts on display.

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