Smart Manufacturing for Aerospace & Defense Summit 2025

Aerospace & Defense manufacturers are navigating a perfect storm of rising geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, supply chain disruptions and critical skills shortages. These converging pressures have created an environment of unprecedented complexity, where meeting evolving customer demands has never been more challenging.

To thrive, A&D manufacturers must embrace industry 4.0 and implement smart manufacturing initiatives at pace. By adopting disruptive technologies, such as automation, robotics, additive manufacturing, IoT, digital twins, AI, and data science, they can unlockoptimized manufacturingand supply capabilities.

A&D experts in Chicago will explore how smart technologies can shorten time-to-market, streamline processes, improve efficiency, enhance quality, increase predictability, and support decision-making across your manufacturing assets, processes and workforce.