It's a super mall with one stop shopping and knowledgeable exhibitors. You save time, and time is money - it's a great gathering place to connect and accelerate your product development. All the exhibitors are engaged - your success is their success.

— John Vilagi, CFO/Product Designer, Radiology Support Devices, Inc

A glimpse into the future.

— Anthony Moreno, CNC Programmer, Approved Aeronautics

I was like a kid in a candy store. With so many innovative ideas, we have no excuse to build and grow in this technological age.

—Courtney Williams, CEO, Lacour Supplies LLC

Definitely a must come see for yourself, and get the experience of a lifetime to have your mind opened, and probably blown away.

— Expo Attendee

To anyone who has never been, you need to take advantage and come. It's an opportunity to see new things, meet people and interact with your fellow customers and competitors. It's an opportunity to see the whole industry all at once.

— Octavia Banner, Category Manager, Cook Medical

IME West provides many, many outlets for us to find our suppliers, plus our new suppliers as we move along.

— Lowell Johnson, Vice President, Jet Plastics

I always attend IME West every year and I get to meet vendors as well as look for new technologies for innovations. My role in my company is to innovate our supply chain and I find seeing those new technologies upfront in action helps me pick the right technologies for our obligations in Johnson and Johnson.

— Ganesh Rao, Engineering Fellow, Johnson and Johnson

I'm learning a lot of things that I haven't learned before. I'm also relearning some stuff and also learning from experiences from other engineers.

— Grace Liu, Staff Materials Engineer, Abbott Laboratories

There's always something new being developed and no matter how much you think you may be ahead of it, you're not. I think that it's something that, you know, if you're anywhere near this industry, you should probably attend at least once. You're constantly learning, you're constantly meeting new companies, new innovations, and just all around learning something every time you talk to somebody new.

— Joseph Bonds, Sales Representative, Albemarle

I think the value is being able to meet all the different type of customers and suppliers out this way and understand the different technologies that is being displayed out here. That's why we're here, to really learn what is out there in the marketplace and talk to the right people. We haven't gone through the whole show yet, but just on this floor alone, we're seeing a lot of new companies that are coming up and new innovations that's being developed. It's very exciting!

— Mark Chiang, President, CMS Circuits, Inc.

The value is learning from each other and building kind of a community. I get to meet people, connect with people and kind of glean from their knowledge and expertise.

— Melody Fetterly, Portfolio Lead, Open Source Integrators

I'm a project engineer, so I deal a lot with machinery acquisition and ways that we can make our company more efficient through new technologies. My main goal here is to look at emerging plastics technologies and automation technologies that we could integrate into our current manufacturing settings. Some of the big things that I've noticed here, which is a little outside of the manufacturing side of our business, but it seems like there's a large emphasis on automated packaging and palletising systems. Currently we use a lot of manual labour in our warehouses. So that's something that I will be taking back to talk about as well as just some basic market knowledge that I've gained through talking with different suppliers and even competitors that we find here.

— Clifford Floyd, Project Engineer, Echo Engineer

I came here and got some exciting opportunities because I saw some of the exhibitors which are very relevant to me and I found exactly what I was looking for. Come here, enjoy the show and there is definitely something you can get from here.

— Yuping Li, Senior Scientist, Zest Dental Solutions

It's a really wonderful experience and opportunity and I think with the efforts that we're doing with the organizers, I think they're going to get the message out nationwide.

— Pradip Shukla, Associate Professor, Chapman University

It provides us some sense of belonging and is very nice to see other women that are involved in engineering. Especially the ones in leadership positions so we can help each other with mentoring and with networking and general support.

— Dasha Mazura, Engineer, SoCalGas

This is the kind of show if you don't show up at it, your clients start to get really nervous about where you were. I got to do things like Disneyland in the morning, come to a show in the afternoon and then do a vendor thing in the evening. So it was like such a cool day to be at the best the area has to offer.

— Josh Schukas, Recruiting Director, Gochkeys Professional Recruiters

The biggest reason to come is meeting all of the different companies and seeing ones you may not have thought of. We all sit there for hours and do Google searches but it's really hard to replicate the ability of walking the line of the show and seeing physical products and go.

— Joshua Cruz, Sr. Principle Engineer, Baxter International

A massive collection of state of the art technology and industry leaders all in one place, tons to see and learn in just a few days.

— Allen Joyce, General Manager, National Aperture, Inc.

The event was busy and productive. A great variety of vendors with a surplus of information.

— Maya Eisler, Product Development Engineer, Neptune Medical

Informative, vast showroom, great networking and solid turnout on all suppliers and attendee's parts.

—Rebecca Schumann, Supplier Relationship & Strategic Sourcing Specialist, Avalign Technologies, Inc.

A must ‘go to’ show of the year.

— Kelly Montalbano, Sales, Envision Capital Group

An engineer's dream.

— Millie Swietek, Sr. Scientist, PDI