More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the WESTEC 2005 exposition and conference, which will be held April 4–7 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The event is one of the 200 largest trade shows in North America, attracting large numbers of domestic and international manufacturers annually. More than 1,000 companies will demonstrate upward of seven million pounds of machinery, with exhibitors including leading equipment and tooling manufacturers, regional distributors and services representing 2,500 product lines.

Emerging and niche technologies will be represented in hundreds of new product introductions. Companies will demonstrate product lines including: machining centers, milling and boring machines, cutting tools and accessories, controls, CAD/CAM software, automated manufacturing and assembly, advanced materials, lean manufacturing, and micromanufacturing.

Event keynote addresses include presentations from Col. John A Daniels, Defense Contract Management Agency; and Barry Sedlik, California State Undersecretary and senior advisor for economic development. An Aerospace and Defense Technology Pavilion will focus on composites and advanced materials, design, engineering, lean enterprise and quality.

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