Catalyst Connection

Manufacturers across Pennsylvania are looking for ways to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Energy is often one of the biggest opportunities.

Join us on June 10 for The Energy Efficient Factory Accelerator Training and learn practical strategies to identify energy waste, improve performance, and build a roadmap for savings.

Additional opportunities:
📅 June 18 – Energy Efficiency for Everyone (In-Person)
📅 June 24 – Energy Efficiency for Everyone (Virtual)

Register today: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vq2BVZ

Are your manufacturing operations keeping pace with AI? Whether you're just getting started or already using AI tools and ready to go deeper — this workshop is built for you.Join Catalyst Connection on June 16 for AI for Manufacturers: Foundations & Practical Applications — a hands-on, 4-hour session designed to cut through the hype and deliver real, shop-floor-relevant
insight. You'll explore:

- AI fundamentals in plain language
- Live demos with ChatGPT, Copilot & Claude
- Advanced use cases across operations, quality & supply chain
- How to evaluate AI vendors and avoid common pitfalls

📅 June 16, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
💲$150
💻 Bring your laptop — hands-on exercises included

Register at https://hubs.li/Q04hS-Lg0

The future of industrial growth is being shaped by more than steel production alone. It is being driven by investment, workforce strategy, supply chain resilience, automation, and the technologies redefining modern manufacturing.

In Episode 7 of the Smart Factory Podcast, Doug Dunworth joins Petra Mitchell to discuss how reinvestment in the U.S. steel industry, domestic manufacturing expansion, and global supply chain shifts are creating new opportunities across southwestern Pennsylvania and beyond.

The conversation explores:
• The impact of U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel investments
• Growing demand for American-made equipment
• Workforce development and skilled labor challenges
• Automation and AI-driven operational improvements
• The role of international collaboration in strengthening competitiveness

For manufacturers across the region, these conversations are becoming increasingly important as industrial growth, energy infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing continue to converge.

Listen to Episode 7:
https://hubs.li/Q04hT0LT0

If your team has been putting off Lean training, this is the opportunity to stop waiting.

Catalyst Connection is hosting Lean Foundations & Introduction to 5S on Thursday, June 4 — a full-day, in-person course available at no cost to manufacturers in the Pittsburgh region. Seats are limited and the date is close.

The course covers Lean principles, waste reduction, and a deep dive into 5S — giving operators, technicians, supervisors, and support staff the foundation to support and sustain improvement efforts on the floor.

Don't let this one pass by.

📅 June 4 | 9am–3pm
📍 Catalyst Connection, Pittsburgh, PA
💲 No cost to attend

Register here: https://hubs.li/Q04hS_JV0