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Given the current economic uncertainty and chaotic business environment, the 2025 Operations Managers Meeting is all about maximizing the potential of existing resources.
We’ll be talking about maximizing efficiency and productivity and discussing the following topics:
- Leveraging existing resources for enhanced efficiency
- Implementing advanced instrumentation to monitor processes and empower staff to manage multiple machines effectively
- Optimizing processes to boost productivity through strategic improvements without significant capital investments
- Training options for supervisors and managers
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 |