Join us for a social celebrating our members as we wrap up the 2023-2024 year for the Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association! We’ll spend some time recapping on our activities over the last year, talking about what’s to come, and hanging out at the Fargo Brewing Company! Each attendee will be given a complimentary drink ticket and we’ll have light snacks available. We encourage each of you to invite a colleague from a manufacturing organization that might not know about MDMA as we continue to expand our network and provide opportunities for collaboration. There will be no fee for anyone to attend.

AI Applications in the Manufacturing Industry

Manufacturing companies need to offer customized products while utilizing low costs and reducing time-to-market to remain competitive in a globalized world. Dealing with high complexity, dynamic production conditions, and unpredictable markets is essential for success. It is suggested that by providing precise and timely decision-making support, machine learning (ML)-aided production planning and control (PPC) can help address these issues. Moreover, the use of machine learning leverages supply chain operations, optimizing various aspects of the supply chain, such as supplier selection, supplier segmentation, supply chain risk prediction, demand estimation, inventory management, transportation, sustainable development, and the circular economy.

This presentation is a high-level introduction to modern AI applications in the manufacturing industry. ML use cases will be reviewed. Some examples include:

• efficient inspection and monitoring of products throughout the production process,

• predictive maintenance to reduce downtime and increase productivity,

• predicting demand, and optimizing inventory levels, as well as analyzing sensor data and optimizing process parameters,

• generative design, and

• streamlined paperwork.

The future of AI applications in the manufacturing industry will be discussed, exploring the potential of ML to transform the organization and management of manufacturing operations, as well as enhance customer satisfaction. Large language models such as ChatGPT4 and their integration into operations will be showcased. A possible hands-on workshop to apply some of the ML techniques on relevant datasets will be offered later based on demand.

Please join the Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association for a social event at Junkyard Brewing Company West Fargo from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 19.

🍻 Complimentary Drinks: Enjoy pizza and a few beers on us and toast to the holiday spirit.

👫 Spouse-Friendly Event: This casual and informal social is the perfect opportunity for your spouse to meet your professional peers.

🤝 Engaging Fellowship: Engross yourself in meaningful conversations about manufacturing, business insights, and the latest on MDMA at Impact Dakota.

🎉 Networking & Fun: Beyond a social gathering, it's a chance to forge new connections and celebrate our collective achievements.

RSVP now and don't miss out on this unique early evening of fellowship, great conversations, and holiday cheer at Junkyard West.

Junkyard Brewing Company is a "nanobrewery" and Taproom in Moorhead, Minnesota that was incorporated in 2012 and received its beer manufacturer's license from MN in the spring of 2013. The Taproom is currently open every night of the week and offers periodic 750ml "crowler" can releases, and Growler fills every Sunday.

Learn more about Junkyard Brewing Company here.

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated on behalf of Junkyard Brewing Company and the MDMA Board of Directors.

Please join the Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association for a social event at Junkyard Brewing Company from 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 20. No program, no formal tour, just a get together with friends and colleagues! All attendees will get a ticket for two free drinks. We hope to see you all there! Please select the correct (Free) ticket type.

Junkyard Brewing Company is a "nanobrewery" and Taproom in Moorhead, Minnesota that incorporated in 2012 and received its beer manufacturer's license from MN in the spring of 2013. The Taproom is currently open every night of the week and offers periodic 750ml "crowler" can releases, and Growler fills every Sunday.

Learn more about Junkyard Brewing Company here.

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated on behalf of Junkyard Brewing Company and the MDMA Board of Directors.

Greetings from the Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association (MDMA)

Please join the Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association on Tuesday, March 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM for a tour of Solid Comfort, Inc.

As a specified case goods supplier for world-class brands including Hilton (Home2 Suites and Hilton Garden Inn), Best Western, and My Place, Solid Comfort has a proven track record of success going back 40 years. The company manufactures its line of furniture with the aid of several modern production machines. Optimized gang rip saw, numerically controlled molders, CNC routers, dovetail machine and panel saws are all used to produce Solid Comfort’s quality furniture on a built to order basis.

Lunch is provided for MDMA Paid Members or can be purchased by non-MDMA members for $15.

The sign-up deadline is 12:00 noon of Friday, March 17.

We will begin serving lunch at 11:45 a.m., program will begin at Noon.

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated by the MDMA Board of Directors.

Please join Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association at 4pm on Tuesday, May 17 at DCR Brewing company  

LOCATION:

630 1st Ave N., Fargo, ND 58102

This is a chance for networking and catching up before summer is here.

Tuesday: 4pm-6:30pm

As always, tickets for food and drinks are provided for MDMA Paid Members. Non-MDMA members are ALWAYS welcome and can purchase tickets for $22. Please select the correct ticket type upon registration!

Drumconrath Brewing was born on Christmas eve 2006 when our founder Sam’s mother got him a Mr. Beer kit for Christmas. Little did anyone in the family know that that simple kit would lead to the founding of a brewery and a quest for quality traditional beers and pushing the boundaries of novelty in the Fargo/Moorhead area.

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated by the MDMA Board of Directors.

Greetings from the Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association (MDMA)

Please join the Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association on Tuesday, April 19, 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM for our April speaking event at Fargo campus of NDSCS, 1305 19th Avenue North.

Doug Peters, Leadership Fargo Moorhead will be our speaker.

Imagine how much easier your job would be if you had a best friend who could help organize and build relationships within your team. That's what a system does for a leader. That's why Systems are a Leaders Best Friend! Systems thinking around leadership is a powerful because it helps us see the world in a more holistic and relational way. Understanding how your team and clients work and interact with others means you can build more impactful and enduring relationships. This session will focus on understanding the value of systems, learning fundamental leadership systems and how to apply them in relevant and applicable ways in all aspects of your life. This session will be facilitated by Doug Peters who is a leadership expert with over 25 years of experience building teams and growing leaders. He spent 25 years on the frontlines of college athletics and recently began working in the local church. Doug currently serves on the Fargo Moorhead Convention and Visitors Bureau and Heart of Clay boards. Doug’s training includes being an Executive Program Member and Certified Disc Consultant with the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team, Certified in Motivation by Appreciation, and degrees in physical education, sports management and business administration.

Please register here for MDMA April 19 event. Please select the correct ticket type upon registration! Lunch is provided for MDMA Paid Members, or can be purchased by non-MDMA members for $15.

The sign-up deadline is 12:00 noon of Friday, April 15.

We will begin serving lunch at 11:45 a.m., program will begin at Noon.

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated by the MDMA Board of Directors.

Please join the Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association on Tuesday, March 15th for a tour of Botlink and Packet Digital. Tours will begin at 9:00 a.m. Breakfast is provided for MDMA Paid Members, or can be purchased by non MDMA members for $15.  Please select the correct ticket type upon registration!

We hope you can join us!

Please join the Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association on Tuesday, February 15th for a tour of Assembly Systems to kick off 2022! Tours will begin at 11:00 a.m.  Lunch is provided for MDMA Paid Members, or can be purchased by non MDMA members for $15.  Please select the correct ticket type upon registration!

Since 1993, Assembly Systems has offered OEM assembly, subassembly, parts kitting and a full range of support services. They focus initially on the bus coach industry, but their capabilities have expanded significantly. Today, Assembly Systems offers a variety of fully managed assembly work for dozens of customers. Assembly Systems also have great expertise in upfitting heavy trucks with a variety of equipment, from crane assemblies to railroad packages.

We hope you can join us!

***Special Guest : West Fargo Mayor Bernie Dardis***

Greetings from the Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association (MDMA)

Please join the Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association on Tuesday, December 14, 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM for our Holiday speaking event at Fargo campus of NDSCS, 1305 19th Avenue North.

Ryan Aasheim, Chief Business Development Officer for the Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation is our speaker. Please join to hear about the latest economic trends and dynamics impacting the regional economy with a particular focus on the manufacturing sector. This presentation will highlight labor trends, demographics, wages, and major employers driving manufacturing sector in the region. Furthermore, Ryan will share EDC’s approach and role in in retaining, expanding, and attracting businesses and talent to the region. Additionally, hear about the latest incentives, programs, and policies being implemented by local and state leaders to drive innovation and support manufacturers.

Please register here for MDMA December 14 event. Please select the correct ticket type upon registration! Lunch is provided for MDMA Paid Members, or can be purchased by non-MDMA members for $15.

The sign-up deadline is 12:00 noon of Friday, December 10.

We will begin serving lunch at 11:45 a.m., program will begin at Noon.

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated by the MDMA Board of Directors.

About this event: Two tours

Please join Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association at 9am on Tuesday, October 19th for a tour of both Total Ag Industries and 1881 Extraction Co. A meal will be provided for MDMA Paid Members or can be purchased by non-MDMA members for $10. Please select the correct ticket type upon registration!

At Total Ag Industries, you get total control! Total control over your crops, your business, your future.

We are an innovator in agriculture. We have built Total Ag from the ground up in the rich Red River Valley soil of North Dakota and grown it to be a regional leader in agriculture. We started assembling machinery for area farm equipment dealers. Since then, we have been an innovator, providing services and products that are needed in agriculture today.

At Total Ag Industries, we are farmers, we sell seed, and we set up equipment. Our fully-customized fertilizer systems are tailored to your operation for total control in the field. Total control means better yields, less waste, and more profit!

In the complex world of agriculture, your best bet is total control from Total Ag Industries!

1881 Extraction Co. provides full-service hemp extraction for state-certified agricultural hemp farmers. We offer clients quality, certified-organic CBD extracts with cannabinoid levels up to 99% purity of the targeted compound.

Our process yields cannabinoids, including high-quality, full-spectrum distillate. In addition, we then take our distillate to the next step, producing a pure, white isolate.

At 1881 Extraction Co. each process is engineered and executed with the highest quality standards in the industry and all client specific data is traceable from seed to oil.

We hope you can join us!

Address: 801 W Caledonia Ave, Hillsboro, ND 58045

Please join us for tours of both Total Ag Industries and 1881 Extraction Co. Stay for one or both tours. We will provide a meal for those who have registered in advance.

This event was coordinated on behalf of Total Ag Industries and 1881 Extractions and the MDMA Board of Directors.

Please join Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association at 4pm on Tuesday, September 21 at Swing Barrel Brewing  

LOCATION:

814 Center Ave Suite 1,

Moorhead, MN 56560

Parking is available in the Swing Barrel Brewing parking lot or across the street if full.

Tuesday: 4pm-6:30pm

As always, tickets for food and drinks are provided for MDMA Paid Members. Non-MDMA members are ALWAYS welcome and can purchase tickets for $22. Please select the correct ticket type upon registration!

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated by the MDMA Board of Directors.

Please join Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association at Noon on Tuesday, November 19 at S-M Enterprises.

Lunch is provided for MDMA Paid Members or can be purchased by non-MDMA members for $15. Please select the correct ticket type upon registration!

Closed-toed shoes will be required, along with safety glasses. Bring your own glasses if you have them. If not, S-M Enterprises will have extra pairs.

S-M Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1975 as a sheet metal fabrication shop in Moorhead, Minnesota, USA. Over the years, they have become the dust control, grain spouting, belt conveyor, and specialty fabrication experts for five continents and more than fifteen countries. In 2003, S-M acquired the R.R. Howell Company. They are now a leader in the bucket elevator and drag conveyor fields. Call them for all of your material handling, dust control, and specialty fabrication requirements.

S-M Enterprises designs, builds, and assembles every piece of equipment in-house. They do not outsource any part of our fabrication process, from raw steel to finished product.

Learn more about S-M Enterprises here

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated on behalf of SM Enterprises and the MDMA Board of Directors.

Please join Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association at Noon on Tuesday, October 15 at McNeilus Steel.

Lunch is provided for MDMA Paid Members or can be purchased by non-MDMA members for $15. Please select the correct ticket type upon registration!

Closed-toed shoes will be required, along with safety glasses. Bring your own glasses if you have them. If not, McNeilus will have extra pairs.

Headquartered in Dodge Center, Minnesota, McNeilus Steel is a family operated full-line metals service center specializing in cut-to-length stretcher leveled flat roll carbon products. Founded in 1948 by Harry McNeilus, we have been the upper Midwest’s friendly steel handlers for more than 60 years.

Our metals distribution business is comprised of over 450 employees and three warehouses located in Dodge Center, Minnesota, Fargo, North Dakota, and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Each location sells and delivers hot roll and cold finish bar, tube, pipe, sheet, plate, flooring, grating, stainless, aluminum, rebar, and other miscellaneous ferrous and nonferrous metal products. We offer metal fabrication services to our customers, including shot blasting, laser, and plasma cutting, bending, rolling, machining, rebar fabrication, sawing, and robotic beveling.

Learn more about McNeilus Steel here

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated on behalf of McNeilus Steel and the MDMA Board of Directors.

Please join Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association for a membership social at Drekker Brewing Co. - Brewhalla at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, September 17. Pizza will be catered and can be enjoyed with drinks before the tour, beginning at 4 p.m., or after the tour, until 6:30 p.m. Dinner/drinks are provided for MDMA Paid Members or can be purchased by non-MDMA members for $15. Please select the correct ticket type.

Beer is our craft, but Drekker is about more than the contents of a glass. It’s about what happens when a few of those glasses get raised together. It’s about doing what you want to do, in a cool place, with people you want to be with. Drekker is about you after all. We love that you’d care enough to join us, and we can’t wait to see where this voyage goes when a couple more beers get raised together. Valhalla can wait.

We started as many breweries do; just a couple of friends brewing in a garage who loved great beer, had a crazy dream, and worked their asses off to make it come true. We won’t bore you with some long, meandering story about how we all met, or how the stars aligned for the brewery to come together. If you want to know the whole story, we’ll bore you with it in the taproom or just wait for the Lifetime movie to come out. Really, we’re just four regular guys who are serious about beer and not much else.

Learn more about Drekker Brewing Co. here

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated on behalf of Prairie Brothers Brewery and the MDMA Board of Directors.

Please join Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association for a tour of Prairie Brothers Brewery at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, September 18. Dinner will be catered and can be enjoyed with drinks before the tour, beginning at 4 p.m., or after the tour, until 6:30 p.m. Dinner/drinks are provided for MDMA Paid Members or can be purchased by non-MDMA members for $15. Please select the correct ticket type.

Our story began in 2009, with our very first batch of home brew entitled "Baby Beer" in honor of the birth of Don's daughter, his first child, Harlee.

Since then, Don dabbled in home brewing, and he even began growing his own hops in his backyard. He talked off and on for a couple of years about what it would be like to open a brewery of his own until one day in the spring of 2015, his wife finally said, "either do it or stop talking about it!" So, he did!

Learn more about Prairie Brothers Brewery here.

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated on behalf of Prairie Brothers Brewery and the MDMA Board of Directors.

Please join Minn-Dak Manufacturers Association at Noon on Tuesday, June 19 for a special summer tour of John Deere Electronic Solutions! This tour is for students 15 or more years old, accompanied by an adult. Spouses are welcome to attend in place of MDMA members. Tickets for MDMA members and student are free. Tickets for a non-MDMA member and one student is $30 total. Please register yourself and your student together for one ticket.

John Deere Electronic Solutions (JDES) specializes in the design and manufacturing of ruggedized electronic controls and systems for original equipment manufacturers in industries that rely on their equipment and electronics to function under harsh electrical and physical environmental conditions. We design and produce engine controls, transmission controls, body controls, electro-hydraulic controls, and more.

JDES also specializes in designing ruggedized electronic drive controls from the low-voltage, low-power ranges (2kW – 10kW) up to heavy vehicle traction drives in the high-voltage, high-power ranges (50 kW and above).

Our core competency of Design for Manufacturing and our specialized manufacturing processes that produce high-reliability, robust electronics make us a leader in off-road electronics and a competitive source for on-highway applications.

Learn more about John Deere Electronic Solutions here.

We hope you can join us!

This event was coordinated on behalf of JDES and the MDMA Board of Directors.