Everyone knows Paperless Parts is an awesome tool for estimators. But what about your sales reps? Your front desk admins? Your Programmers? Your shop floor? In this session, we’ll walk through how different functions of your organization should be embracing Paperless Parts to improve their day-to-day productivity and company-wide collaboration.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Business Architect, Alex Renner.

About Alex
Alex Renner joined Paperless Parts as an Implementation Project Manager in 2022. Alex helps Paperless Parts customers leverage the platform to drive efficiencies, optimize resources, and win more work. Prior to Paperless Parts, Alex worked for GE Aviation in multiple supply chain roles starting in 2014, most recently as a Manufacturing engineer supporting a multi-modal sector assembly cell.
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Master the new quote setup workflow in this interactive workshop led by our Quote Setup Product Managers. Get a demo of all the new features launched in the release, with several common scenarios—zip files, pack-and-gos, spreadsheets, etc. Plus, we’ll offer tips and tricks for facilitating the adoption of this new process across your estimating team and customer base.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Customer Success Manager, Liz Bollino.

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When it comes to quoting, every second counts. But that doesn’t mean you should rush; it just means you should look to find ways to work smarter, not harder. In this session, learn new, easy ways to minimize clicks in Paperless Parts and simplify your quoting workflow. Get expert tips for reducing repeat and manual steps through browser and keyboard hacks (for Windows & Mac operating systems) that can help you navigate more seamlessly through quote items.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Product Manager, Alex Sinson.

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Everyone knows they should be actively investing in marketing, but few shops have dedicated resources that are focused on it, and it often falls by the wayside. In this session, Anne Marie Tracey, head of Paperless Parts’ Marketing Solutions team, will review a few simple, tactical marketing strategies that even shops with limited bandwidth can embrace to drive ROI. Topics covered include maximizing your investment in trade shows and other live industry events, social media best practices, website optimization tips, email marketing basics, and leveraging local associations to drive brand awareness.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Marketing Solutions Manager, Anne Marie Tracey and LA/NTMA President and President of Ricaurte Precision Inc., Hernan Ricaurte.

About Anne Marie
Anne Marie Tracey is the manager of our Marketing Solutions department at Paperless Parts, where she serves as the client manager, content manager, marketing strategist, and team lead for all Paperless Parts Marketing Solutions clients. She also designs and manages client websites with the goal of building a strong online presence to target key audiences to support business growth.
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About Hernan
Hernan is the President of Ricaurte Precision, Inc., a certified AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 precision machine shop. Prior to joining the family business, Hernan spent over 20 years in the medical device and healthcare industry, serving in senior management positions in the US and Japan. Hernan is also the president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association (LA/NTMA), the center of knowledge and action for Southern California’s precision manufacturing community.
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Paperless Parts is designed to meet your shop’s unique needs. In this session, uncover new ways of maximizing costing and pricing consistency and job profitability with custom workflows, formulas, logic, and more. We’ll cover examples like how to change default variables, using visual indicators in your routing templates, using the “days” function and capacity to estimate part lead time automatically, and so much more.

This session will be led by Technical Implementation Manager Aaron Liu and Senior Manager of Technical Services, Jack Eccles.

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When your shop is preparing to cut over to a new technology, there are a lot of hurdles to jump over before go-live. Change management is no easy feat, but there are a few effective ways to keep your team on track and prepare for long-term success. In this session, Paperless Parts’ Implementation Project Management experts will share best practices for appointing a strong project champion, being open to change (and getting people excited for change), setting the right goals, preparing for go-live, and how to foster continuous learning and management of new technologies. Whether you’re onboarding Paperless Parts, switching ERPs, or onboarding a new employee on your entire tech stack, you’ll walk away feeling better equipped to drive meaningful change more efficiently and effectively. This session is a must-attend for those actively in Paperless Parts onboarding.

This session will be led by Technical Implementation Manager Miles Barker and Senior Implementation Project Manager Nikki Champagne.

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At POWER 2023, we talked about what KPIs to measure to transform your business (e.g. What types of KPIs are you able to track? What types of business decisions are better supported by having this type of data at your fingertips?). This year, we’ll do a quick refresh on those concepts then spend the majority of the workshop hands-on in the platform building out your Analytics dashboard: How can you pull a report on information you need to better understand your business? What types of integrations can help funnel useful information into and out of Paperless Parts? Plus, get a quick rundown on how to dive even deeper into your quoting data with Paperless Parts’ Advanced Analytics.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Customer Success Team Lead Jeff Gorman.

About Jeff
Jeff Gorman joined the Paperless Parts team in 2020 and during his tenure has helped dozens of shops across the United States deploy and leverage Paperless Parts to streamline their quoting process, generate growth, and improve bottom-line profitability. In addition to his role on the Paperless Parts Customer Success team, he is co-host of a regular series about pricing best practices on the “The Job Shop Show:” a podcast focused on helping shops implement the best practices required to scale their business.

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We’re running this session a second time to allow everyone to join! Master the new quote setup workflow in this interactive workshop led by our Quote Setup Product Managers. Get a demo of all the new features launched in the release, with several common scenarios—zip files, pack-and-gos, spreadsheets, etc. Plus, we’ll offer tips and tricks for facilitating the adoption of this new process across your estimating team and customer base.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Customer Success Manager, Liz Bollino.

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We’re running this session a second time to allow everyone to join! When it comes to quoting, every second counts. But that doesn’t mean you should rush; it just means you should look to find ways to work smarter, not harder. In this session, learn new, easy ways to minimize clicks in Paperless Parts and simplify your quoting workflow. Get expert tips for reducing repeat and manual steps through browser and keyboard hacks (for Windows & Mac operating systems) that can help you navigate more seamlessly through quote items.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Product Manager, Alex Sinson.

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Enjoy food, drinks, and networking on the beautiful rooftop patio of the event venue, Convene.

In this panel, we’ll dive into key financial considerations for job shop manufacturers for 2024–2025. Hear from financial industry experts who specialize in manufacturing on the current economic landscape and how it may impact businesses across the U.S. We’ll cover topics on everyone’s minds, from interest rates, key considerations for loans and major purchases, pricing and negotiation strategies, positioning tips for acquisition, strategies for long-term business resilience, and more.

Staying ahead in manufacturing requires continuous improvement. The most efficient, productive, and profitable shops regularly analyze, measure, and improve their existing processes. The first step to improving a process, either in the front office or on the shop floor, is to map it out—with a process map, you can identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement. In this session, Paperless Parts’ product experts and seasoned customers will get hands-on with the best tools to use and walk through a process mapping exercise for their quote to cash cycle.

This session will be hosted by Paperless Parts Senior Software Engineer, Dana Wensberg.

About Dana
Dana Wensberg has been with Paperless Parts since 2017, playing an integral role in building the first version of the platform. He’s worked across almost all functions of the organization, developing close relationships with hundreds of customers. Most recently he’s been operating as a Senior Software Engineer, getting back to what he loves doing most: building awesome software.
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With CMMC planned to start hitting contracts in early 2025, shops that work with the DIB need to start preparing now for how to meet compliance requirements. No matter where you are on your CMMC compliance journey, this session will outline where to get started and how Paperless Parts can help in your compliance efforts. We’ll be presenting an update on the CMMC rollout, FedRAMP equivalency for cloud service providers, and how the Paperless Parts’ Aerospace & Defense package is designed to support CMMC Level 2 Certification.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Scott Sawyer.

About Scott
Scott Sawyer is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Paperless Parts. Prior to founding Paperless Parts, he worked in engineering and leadership roles in consumer electronics and the defense industry. At Lockheed Martin and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, he created technology in the areas of anti-tamper, big data analysis for cybersecurity, and video and radar signal processing, resulting in numerous publications and patents.
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Attend this workshop to learn how to maximize material efficiency and minimize material cost and scrap through Paperless Parts’ robust set of nesting capabilities. Follow along on your laptop as our product experts demonstrate best practices for quickly generating nests of one or many sheet metal, tube, angle, and u-channel metal parts across your quote.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Senior Implementation Project Manager, Cam Schoffstall.

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Quoting from prints is time-consuming and error-prone; notes are hand-written on print-outs and end up filed away instead of in the hands of programmers if the job is won. Redacting and sharing information with outside vendors is clunky (and threatens data security). Learn how to review and quote from prints within Paperless Parts – digitally mark up files, securely collaborate, redact sensitive information, easily compare file revisions, and more. Plus, see how our new AI-supported Paperless Assistance feature helps automate and streamline your process of pulling the information you need off of a print. Leave the workshop more confident in how to leverage all the functionality of the PDF Viewer.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Presales Team Lead Connor LaChapelle.

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Paperless Parts is built to help you streamline operations at your shop, from the front office to the shop floor. By integrating the various tools and platforms you use every day at your shop with Paperless Parts, you can centralize data, improve cross-functional communication, and eliminate redundancy. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how it’s possible to build an integration with Paperless Parts to a program with other Open APIs.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Technical Architect Reid Lance and Senior Services Engineer Matt Peters.

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Building out your bill of materials (BOM), the comprehensive list of parts, assemblies, subassemblies, documents, drawings, CAD models, and other materials required to create a product, might be easier than you think. If you quote assemblies in Paperless Parts, you won’t want to miss this session where we’ll be walking through how to use Paperless Parts to edit the CAD-extracted quantity of components, move them up or down in the tree structure without having to leave Paperless Parts (or even your quote) and send more accurate quotes, with fewer mistakes, in less time.

This session will be led by Paperless Parts Product Manager Meg van Deventer.

About Meg
Meg van Deventer joined the Paperless Parts team in 2021, starting as an Implementation Project Manager. After onboarding more than 30 shops across a wide variety of sizes and industries, she moved to the Product team. She is passionate about making Paperless Parts as accessible and easy to use as possible so that shops can maximize all of the platform’s benefits.
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We aim to be a true partner throughout your entire journey as a customer. Your feedback is not just valued; it is crucial in shaping our product. Have you ever wondered who you should approach with a new idea for Paperless Parts? Ever thought, “I wonder why they made that change?” Or have you ever simply been curious about what happens behind the scenes to bring an idea to life on our platform? Peek behind the curtain in this session where you’ll discover where and how to share your product ideas, get a demo of a recently launched feature born from real customer feedback, and see our process for transforming your ideas into impactful improvements. Be sure to bring your product feedback and share with our team live.

This session will be hosted by Paperless Parts Product Manager Hank Portney.

About Hank
Hank has served in a variety of product design and management roles over the last several years at Paperless Parts, lending his expertise mechanical engineering expertise to develop intentional, carefully-curated features for our customer base. Hank is a trusted team member and mentor when it comes to all things product and market discovery, product definition, and roadmap development.
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Our product and engineering teams are constantly hard at work making improvements and adding new features to Paperless Parts. Join our Chief Technology Officer Jason Luce and Senior Director of Product Management Beau Blinder to get a glimpse into what’s coming soon for the platform in 2024–2025. Learn what’s in development and new features and capabilities you can expect to see in Paperless Parts by the end of the year and into 2025.

Our product roadmap will be presented by Paperless Parts Chief Technology Officer Jason Luce and Senior Director of Product Management Beau Blinder.

About Jason
Prior to joining the team at Paperless Parts, Jason Luce was SVP of Engineering at SessionM (acquired by Mastercard in 2019). Prior to that, he was Head of Engineering for LogMeIn’s Emerging Products line of business. Jason oversees Paperless Parts’ product roadmap, ensuring that we continue to deliver an innovative product that maximizes customer success.
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About Beau
As Senior Director of Product Management at Paperless Parts, Beau Blinder works to deeply understand and deliver solutions to our customers’ problems. He connects with shops of all shapes and sizes and works cross-functionally to help our teams build the right things at the right time.
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