Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show 2017 Post-Show Report

SEPTEMBER 25 – 28, 2017 THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE | TORONTO, ONTARIO

POST-SHOW REPORT

Canada’s Largest Manufacturing Event!

• 3,000,000 lbs. of equipment in action • 12,000+ industry professionals in attendance • 700+ suppliers and leading OEMs • 200+ new products and services • 100+ presentations and demos Featured Conferences

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CMTS 2017 BY THE NUMBERS

8,195 37,460 240 426 574 Total Lead Count

Net Attendees Total Conference Attendees

Total Net Square Footage

Total Exhibiting Companies Represented

Total Exhibits

134,670 12,316

*

Total Event Attendees

*includes all exhibit/conference attendees, exhibitors, students, media

MORE MULTI-DAY ATTENDEES! CMTS 2017 offered so much equipment, education and networking opportunities that 23% of attendees (nearly 2,000!) returned on two or more days to take it all in, an increase of 113% over CMTS 2015.

JOB FUNCTIONS

COMPANY SIZE CMTS connects you with small job shops, mid-size companies and large OEMs that are essential to the Canadian manufacturing industry.

46% of attendees are at the engineering level or higher.

Owner/Company Management/ Corporate Executive 20%

Manufacturing Engineering & Production Management 18% 1,000 and

Sales & Marketing Management 17% Over 500 Manufacturing Engineering Department (non-management) 11% 999

Product Design/R&D 9% 250-499 Manufacturing Production Department (non-management) 9%

Control Engineering/Automation 5% 4% Purchasing

Quality Assurance & Control 3% 100-249 2% Student 2% Educator/Instructor

4% 6%

7%

13%

TOP INDUSTRIES REPRESENTED The majority of CMTS attendees hail from one of the following business sectors: Automotive Job Shop / Contract Manufacturing Commercial & Industrial Machinery Fabricated Metal / Stamping Aircraft / Aerospace Consulting / Engineering

40%

Less than 20

12% 50-99

20% 12% 8% 8% 7% 6%

17% 20-49

Other industries represented include: Agriculture Alternative Energy Appliances Chemicals / Petroleum Communications Construction Consumer Goods Defense

Education / Academia Electronics / Computers Food Processing Furniture Government / Military Medical / Surgical Mining / Utilities / Non-Metallic Minerals / Carbide / Diamonds

Oil & Gas Pharmaceutical Plastic Public Works Pulp & Paper Research & Development Services (Financial and Other) Transportation

69%

of the audience comes from the hard-to-reach smalland medium-sized manufacturers.

ROLE IN BUYING

74%

of attendees influence equipment purchase decisions in their companies.

This means you’re having quality conversations with evaluators, recommenders, specifiers and final decision makers.

MORE LEADS!

19%

increase in leads over CMTS 2015.

TECHNOLOGIES EVALUATED Top technologies of interest at CMTS 2017 included the following: Machine & Tooling Systems Automation & Robotics Additive Manufacturing Software & Control Systems Metalforming & Fabrication Measurement & Inspection Systems Advanced Materials Design & Simulations Digital Factory (Industry 4.0, IIoT, Advanced Mfg.) Laser & Laser Systems Plant Engineering

COMPANY BUDGET 21% of the CMTS audience has equipment budgets that exceed $500,000. CMTS is an excellent way to connect with companies looking to invest in capital equipment.

Up to $20,000

34%

$20,001–$50,000

13%

$50,001–$200,000

20%

$200,001–$500,000

12%

$500,001–1,000,000

9%

$1,000,001–$5,000,000

8%

Over $5,000,000

4%

TOP ATTENDING COMPANIES Acklands Grainger Aérospatiale Hemmingford Air Bus Helicopters Air Canada Arcelor Mittal Dofasco Bauer Hockey Corp.

Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Ltd. Bombardier Aerospace Bradley Ontario Precision Inc. Canada Mold Technology Inc. Canadian Armed Forces Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Candu Energy Inc. CBM Ltd. CCI Thermal Technologies Inc. Celestica Inc. Centerline Windsor Ltd. CFN Precision Inc. Cirque du Soleil Commercial Spring and Tool Company Ltd. Curtiss-Wright Dellcom Aerospace Inc.

Fiat Chrysler Assembly Fischer Canada Ford GE Automation & Controls GE Center for Additive Technology Advancement General Dynamics Land Systems Canada GlaxoSmothKline GMCL - CAMI Assembly Gouvernement du Québec Government of Canada Hitachi Construction Truck Manufacturing Ltd. Honda Canada Honeywell Canada Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. Hydro One Hydro-Québec Kubota Materials Canada Corporation Linamar Corporation LPP Manufacturing - Linamar Magellan Aerospace Magna International Inc. Magna Powertrain Inc.

Martinrea International Messier Dowty Aerospace Multimatic Inc. Nestle Canada Inc. Noranco Inc. Ontario Power Generation OTTO Motors Parker Hannifin Canada PCC Aerostructures Pratt & Whitney Canada RB&W Corporation of Canada Safran Landing Systems Canada Inc. Shell Canada SNC-Lavalin St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp.

The Boeing Company Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. Triumph Gear Systems Toronto Tycos Tool & Die, Div. of Magna International UTC Aerospace Landing Gear Div. Xerox Canada

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

Your Partner in Productivity

This was one of the best CMTS events we have ever participated in. We met with highly qualified professionals, many existing and new customers, closed business of more than 9 machines onsite and received solid leads that helped fill our sales funnel that will turn into new orders for our company.

– Frank Haydar, President, Elliott Matsuura Canada Secure your preferred exhibit space and let SME work with you to create a sponsorship opportunity that meets your business objectives.

FOR QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS REPORT, CONTACT: Companies A–E

Companies F–Z

Sanjay Prasad 1.888.322.7333 ext. 4467 sprasad@sme.org

Allison Martinez 1.888.322.7333 ext. 4416 amartinez@sme.org