WEBINAR
The State of Precision Manufacturing 2026: What Separates the Best Shops from the Rest
Tuesday August 4th, 2026
10:00 AM – 11:00 PM PT
Paul Van Metre
Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist, ProShop
Grace Sciera
Research Manager, Drive Research
Why Watch?
Eliminate “Key Person Dependency”
Discover how to transition critical quoting and setup knowledge out of a few employees’ heads and into repeatable systems, reducing the operational fragility that leaves 52% of shops vulnerable if a key leader goes absent.
Stop the “Audit Scramble” & Win Higher-Value Bids
Learn why 53% of shops can’t produce an instant traceability package without disrupting production, and uncover how building compliance confidence will stop you from turning down the complex contracts 27% of shops walked away from this past year.
Kill the “Vigilance Tax” on Your Margins
Uncover the hidden administrative drain of relying on manual human effort to enforce quality standards, and walk away with a practical blueprint to transform your business into a highly automated, “Intelligent Operator”.
About this webinar
Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 |
10:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM ET
We surveyed 144 precision manufacturers to answer one question: why do some shops scale cleanly while others stay held together by a handful of people?
The answers weren’t what we expected. 65% of small shops keep critical knowledge locked in a few heads. 53% can’t produce an audit package on demand. And nearly half of small shops have walked away from high-value bids because they couldn’t prove compliance.
But 30.6% of shops have broken the pattern. We call them Intelligent Operators, and the data shows exactly what they do differently.
Paul Van Metre sits down with Grace Sciera, Research Manager at Drive Research, the firm behind the study, to walk through how the research was built, the findings that surprised us most, and the practical path from a fragile shop to one that runs on systems instead of memory.
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