CHICAGO-The Assembly Summit 2009, hosted byQualityMagazine’s sister publication, ASSEMBLY Magazine, will occur March 24 to 26, 2009, at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare. This two-day forum will bring leaders from every facet of manufacturing together to share their real-world experience in tackling the toughest challenges in product assembly.

Speakers will cover advances in assembly technology from lean manufacturing to robotics, and explain how to turn assembly technology into a competitive weapon for capturing market share. Senior manufacturing executives will reveal the strategy and tactics they are using to keep their assembly operations here in the Unite States.

Past winners of the prestigious Assembly Plant of the Year award will describe why their plants were honored, and what they've been doing since to build on their success. The Assembly Summit is the most important source of useful information available to any company manufacturing products in the automotive, aerospace, electronic, medical or appliance industries.

For more information, call (888) 530-6714 or visitwww.assemblymag.com/summit.