Dipl. Eng. I. Pressas of the Numerical Modeling Department of ELKEME participated in NAMRC-45 (NAMRI/ SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference)/ MSEC 2017 (ASME International Manufacturing Science & Engineering Conference)/ ICM&P 2017 (JSME/ International Conference On Materials and Processing) conferences which were held simultaneously in the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and were organized by SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and JSME (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers). The conferences covered a wide variety of manufacturing and material processing topics, some of which include manufacturing systems, advanced manufacturing processes, material processing, manufacturing education, cyber – physical systems in manufacturing and others.