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In an era of economic uncertainty and rapidly shifting business conditions, the 2025 Operations Managers Meeting will focus on a powerful and timely theme: Maximizing the value of what you have. Rather than chasing costly new investments, this year’s discussions will center on how to unlock greater performance, efficiency, and productivity from your existing resources.
Key areas of focus will include:
Driving Efficiency with Existing Resources
Hear strategies for leveraging current assets, infrastructure, and personnel to achieve better operational outcomes.
Empowering Teams through Smart Technology
Explore how advanced instrumentation and monitoring tools can enable staff to oversee multiple machines and processes with greater precision and autonomy.
Improving Productivity without Major Capital Investments
Gain insights on refining workflows and optimizing systems to deliver measurable gains without relying on new equipment or expansion.
Upskilling Supervisors and Managers
Discover targeted training and development approaches to enhance leadership, problem solving, and performance management at the operations level.
Plant tours:
Tri Star Metals is a domestic, AS9100 certified manufacturer of stainless steel and nickel alloy bar and wire. Our rapidly expanding manufacturing campus is located in Freeport, Illinois. We now operate out of a 300,000 square foot facility with state of the art processing equipment at every stage of our production process. While we are capable of producing commodity products, we excel at the non-standard. We offer specialty alloys with custom mechanical properties in non-standard diameters / lengths and low production minimums.
Leggett & Platt is a diversified manufacturer that designs and produces a broad variety of engineered components and products. With wire made from steel at the company's own steel mill, high-quality wire and wire products are supplied to customers across the globe for a variety of applications.
Printable Schedule
as of May 12, 2025; subject to change
| Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | |
| Arrivals | |
| Thursday, October 23, 2025 | |
| 6:30am – 8:30am | OSC & EHS Committee Meetings & Breakfast |
| 7:30am – 8:00am | Registration |
| 8:00am – 1:00pm | General Session & Lunch |
| 1:00pm – 5:00pm | Plant tour: Tri Star Metals, Freeport, IL 1:00pm Depart hotel 2:30pm Arrive + tour 4:00pm Depart Tri Star 5:30pm Return to hotel |
| 6:00pm – 8:00pm | Reception & Dinner |
| Friday, October 24, 2025 | |
| 6:30am – 8:00am | Breakfast |
| 8:00am – 3:30pm | Plant tour & Lunch: Leggett & Platt Sterling Steel Mill 8:00am Depart hotel 9:45am Arrive Leggett & Platt 1:00pm Depart Leggett & Platt 3:00pm Arrive O'Hare 3:30pm Return to hotel |
The following list shows all reviewed and paid attendees as of 06/30/2025.
| Attendee Name | Title | Company |
| Mr. Jonathan E. Anderson | Sales | Aztech Lubricants by Kodiak |
| Mr. Dal Gill | Director, QA and Technical Compliance | Tree Island Steel |
| Omid Lashkari | Metallurgical Engineer |