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| Tuesday, June 10 |
| 12 noon |
Registration Opens |
| 3-5 PM |
3rd Annual Manufacturing Council Meeting (by invitation only) |
| 5-7 PM |
Opening Reception |
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| Wednesday, June 11 |
| 7:30 AM |
Registration Opens |
| 8:15 AM |
Executive Breakfast: How Manufacturers Can Grow a Lean, Green, Earning Machine
Going green and being more socially and environmentally responsible can pay significant dividends for manufacturers today and tomorrow. Learn about the new business model within the manufacturing industry and how you can look beyond the cost of being socially and environmentally responsible to drive shareholder value.
Tim Hanley, Vice Chairman and U.S. Process & Industrial Products Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP
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| 9:00 AM |
Welcome and Opening Remarks: David Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation |
| 9:15 AM |
Featured Presentation: Orchestrating Research & Manufacturing in the Pharmaceuticals Industry, with Kelvin Cooper, SVP, Worldwide Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pfizer
Today, the pharmaceuticals industry is in the throes of tremendous business change. Flexibility and agility in anticipating and reacting to demand and making products that the marketplace truly wants have become imperative for producers. Kelvin Cooper will discuss how Pfizer has responded to changing research and manufacturing trends, the state of research-based pharmaceutical manufacturing today, and directions for the future.
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| 9:55 AM |
Hitting the High Notes: The Leadership Mandate
What Manufacturing Executives Need to Focus on Beyond the pressures of quarterly financial performance, make sure you're focused on the right priorities. A distinguished panel of leaders from across the spectrum of manufacturing will discuss what the leadership mandates should be for manufacturing executives in today's increasingly competitive global market.
Bruce McKay, Executive Vice President, Livingston & Haven
Craig Giffi, Vice Chairman, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Eric Mittelstadt, Chief Executive Officer, NACFAM
Moderator: MA Editor-in-Chief David Brousell
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| 10:35 AM |
Networking Break
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| 11:05 AM |
Spotlight Session: The Road to the Digital Factory
The digital factory has been stalled by cost, culture, complexity, and an inability by many manufacturers to close the loop between product design and factory floor control. But that's beginning to change as manufacturers increasingly digitize product information, streamline new product innovation processes using digital prototypes, and begin to leverage that digital product information directly in the manufacturing environment. Learn how manufacturers are taking the next steps along the road to the digital factory, what benefits can ensue, what pitfalls to watch out for, and what's needed in the way of systems, technology, and processes.
Brad Heath, President, VirTex Assembly Services
Jeff Richlin, President, Richlin Machinery, Inc.;
John Barcus, Vice President, Manufacturing Industries, Oracle
William L. Rice, VP of Information Technologies, Inalfa Roof systems, Inc.
Moderator: MA Senior Editor Stephanie Neil
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| 11:45 AM |
Workshop: Uniting the Manufacturing Enterprise: How Mitsubishi Electric's e-F@ctory Strategy Links IT and Automation
In order for manufacturers to create faster, more agile businesses, an unprecedented level of collaboration between IT and automation professionals, and the systems they operate, must take place. Learn how Mitsubishi Electric's information-sharing strategy standardizes the method by which critical decision-making information is shared between manufacturing and the enterprise, removing the barriers that, in the past, prevented this game-changing collaboration
Trayton Jay, Director of Marketing, Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc.
Ralph Rio, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group
Alex Campagnoni P. Eng., President, Sentient Systems
John Keever, Chief Technical Officer, ILS Technology
Moderator: MA Editor-in-Chief David Brousell
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| 12:30 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:30 PM |
Featured Presentation: Supply Chain Dreams, with Tim Opitz, Director, Production Operations and Support & Services, 787 Systems Integration, Boeing
With the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing is transforming from a vertically integrated enterprise that does most of its own product design, supplier management, manufacturing, and integration into a more virtual enterprise that relies heavily on partners and suppliers. It's counting on cutting lead times while significantly reducing tooling, inventory, and other risks that could even accelerate similar changes throughout the aerospace and defense industry. Go inside the story of a market leader working on innovation and internal reinvention to gain the ultimate competitive advantage: speed to market, from design to implementation.
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| 2:10 PM |
Workshop: Digital Media - Turning Ink into Digital Data!
Digital media provides a means of capturing, processing, and distributing information across an enterprise while increasing productivity and the accuracy of data collection. OKI Printing Solutions will show how this technology can impact numerous applications across your organization, from human resources, to engineering/design, to warehousing/logistics. Specific examples during the presentation will include forms processing, field data collection, and CAD/CAM.
Bobby Rogers, Vice President Commercial & Public Sector Sales, OKI Data Americas, Inc.
Moderator: MA Editor-in-Chief David Brousell
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Workshop: Creating a Competitive Advantage With Your Mobile Workforce
Manufacturing operations looking to improve productivity and contain costs are adopting innovative uses of wireless technologies, both in the plant and with their extended business communities. From workforce management to fleet and asset management, integrating information with operations and management systems enhances visibility in real time for improved profitability and productivity. Along with a real world case study on wireless solution adoption, this workshop by Sprint and Gearworks will includes a demonstration of wireless workforce management.
Jim Hayes, Director, Industry Business Solutions, Sprint
Rob Juncker, CTO, Gearworks
Moderator: MA Executive Editor Mark Halper
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| 2:55 PM |
Networking Break |
| 3:25 PM |
Featured Presentation: Architecting Standard Processes, with Fred Yochum, VP & Director of Commercial Products Supply, Coca-Cola Company
Establishing common processes, systems, and metrics to measure performance has become a fundamental for today's global enterprise. Commercial Products Supply is a division of the company that provides a strategically critical "component" in the supply chain. As such, it understands the value of orchestrating this global operation based on these principles. Coke's Fred Yochum will discuss how the company has brought together such key processes as planning, forecasting, and inventory management to manage this global operation as well as future directions in connecting other parts of the Coca-Cola system.
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| 4:05 PM |
The Rhythm of the Future: The Evolution of the Network
Voice, data, VOIP, WiFi, WiMAX, mesh -- a myriad of technologies make up today's network infrastructures. As manufacturers strive to become more agile and drive greater speed and efficiency into their operations, where does each of these networking technologies belong? How will they evolve in years ahead? How can manufacturers keep management costs under control while deploying this widening range of technologies? This panel will discuss the state of network technologies today, what they are best suited for, and how they will develop in the future.
Rob Juncker, CTO, Gearworks
Rick DePinto, IT Manager Ce De Candies
Sath Rao, Director - Industrial Automation and Process Control, Frost & Sullivan
Moderator: MA Executive Editor Mark Halper
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| 4:45 PM |
Synchronizing the Players: Managing Extended Processes in the Global Supply Chain
Due to the proliferation of global sourcing, new classes of risk across the supply chain must be managed, including geopolitical, regulatory, logistical, currency-related, and natural disaster. This is in addition to the time-honored risks of supplier interruption and not having the right product in the right place at the right time. In this session, learn how to reduce risk factors and keep the flow of products moving.
Tom Dadmun, Vice President of Supply Chain, ADTRAN
Larry Lapide, Director, Demand Management, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, MIT
Lorenzo Martinelli, Senior Vice President, E2Open
Moderator: MA Executive Editor Jeff Moad
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| 6:00 PM |
Cocktail Reception |
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| Thursday, June 12 |
| 7:30 AM |
Marketplace Open |
| 8:15 AM |
Executive Breakfast: "The Analytical Competitor", Untapped Profits
Leading companies are employing advanced analytics to outperform and outmaneuver the competition, and the same technology can work for you. The latest advances in computing, data management, and analytical algorithms can now be aligned in ways that will enable you to find hidden profits within the control of your management team. Ultimately, every US manufacturer will need to become an analytical competitor to survive. This talk is a primer for decision makers accountable for the P&L, and for anyone that wants to bring practical advantages back to their company.
Andrew Bielat, President, EIS Analytics
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| 9:00 AM |
Opening Remarks: David Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation |
| 9:05 AM |
Featured Presentation: Best-in-Class Manufacturing with Paul Martin, CIO, Rexam
Achieving and sustaining peak performance in all aspects of the organization is a business discipline that, if done correctly, can result in significant competitive advantages. As the world's third-largest consumer packaging company and the largest aluminum can manufacturer, Rexam plc is striving to achieve the highest possible levels of performance through best-in-class processes across the organization. Chief Information Officer Paul Martin will discuss how Rexam has established best-in-class principles and how it has leveraged these ideas throughout its business.
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| 9:45 AM |
New Sounds: Managing the Next-Gen Workforce: New Technology and Business Skills
Only 41% of today's manufacturing industry workforce in the United States is directly engaged in production; the remaining 59% includes engineers, IT professionals, mathematicians, and business professionals. Even assembly-line positions require new skill sets. Learn how to find the right formula for hiring in this future-focused session.
Stacey Wagner, Principal, Jarrett Wagner Group and former Managing Director, National Association of Manufacturers' Center for Workforce Success
Eric Mittelstadt, Chief Executive Officer, NACFAM
Maureen Steinwall, President, Steinwall, Inc.
Moderator: MA Online Editor Chris Chiappinelli
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| 10:25 AM |
Networking Break
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| 10:55 AM |
Finding Harmony: Bringing IT and Automation Teams Together
The wall between IT and automation functions is crumbling. The migration of standards-based technologies from IT to the plant floor is a catalyst for change, and wireless networks require teamwork. Learn how leading manufacturers are navigating complex organizational and cultural issues to exact collaboration and drive success.
Darren Allison, IT Manager, Martinrea
Robert Reed, VP Manufacturing, Coffee Bean International
Alison Smith, Research Director, AMR Research
Matt Lopinski, VP of Sales and Marketing, Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
Moderator: MA Executive Editor Jeff Moad
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| 11:35 AM |
The Next Plateau: Enterprise Mobility
How is the concept of mobility being applied effectively in manufacturing companies? The value of information in electronic form can be virtually limitless if it can be accessed on the front lines of business -- in the field, on the shop floor, at a customer site -- wherever and whenever that business activity is taking place. This panel discussion will explore leading applications of wireless mobility in manufacturing organizations, how these applications are best deployed and managed, and how manufacturers can achieve tangible business benefits from them.
Abhi Ingle, Vice President, Mobility Applications Consulting, AT&T
Gary Robertson, CTO Emeritus Delphi Corporation & Board of Advisors Programs The Harvard Group
Chris Hendley, Director, Applications Development & Business Integration, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
Peter Swartz, Director IT for Dell's Global Site and Data Center Services, Dell, Inc.
Moderator: MA Senior Editor Stephanie Neil
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| 12:15 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:15 PM |
Featured Presentation: Innovation & Manufacturing with Lisa Bodell, CEO, futurethink
Innovation has become a celebrated cause in manufacturing companies. As companies attempt to move innovation from theory to practice, however, they are seeking to understand how manufacturers have successfully mastered the processes and practices of innovation. Lisa Bodell, the founder of futurethink, a company created around the idea that anyone can innovate, will provide a roadmap to enable more manufacturers to make the journey to successful innovation.
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| 1:55 PM |
Orchestrating the Apps: The Vision of SOA
Most of the key ERP, supply chain, and manufacturing systems that manufacturers rely on cannot quickly or easily be changed and integrated to reflect changing business requirements. Services-oriented architectures (SOA) promise a solution as simple as snapping Lego blocks together. But is SOA delivering on that promise? What strategies are working best? Find out in this session.
Eric Marks, Chief Executive Officer, AgilePath Corp.
Joshua Greenbaum, Principal, Enterprise Applications Consulting
Paul L. Gonzalez, Global IT, ViewSonic Corporation
Moderator: MA Online Editor Chris Chiappinelli
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| 2:35 PM |
Workshop: Six Sigma and Lean Meet Real-Time Wireless Data
Most process improvement efforts have traditionally relied on measuring, analyzing, improving, and controlling the operations based on what happened in the past. Therefore, it has taken generations of managers to reap tangible benefits. Real-time wireless applications raise the bar in getting the right things to the right place at the right time in the right quantity to enhance the workflow while minimizing waste. New technology allows manufacturers to get a more accurate and timely view of the process and helps managers to make the decisions as the events unfold. Whether you have embraced lean, Six Sigma, or your own methodology, in this session, AT&T will give you an in-depth view of business process mobilization and practical guidance for getting started.
Ralph Rio, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group
Igor Glubochansky, Director, Industry Solutions Group, Enterprise Business Solutions, AT&T
Moderator: MA Senior Editor Stephanie Neil
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Workshop: Ensuring Product Safety, Security and Quality - The Role of Serialization in Supply Chains
The supply chain is undergoing dramatic change. Virtually all industries recognize the need to approach the new competitive battleground and operate cost-effectively against hungrier manufacturers from abroad. At the same time counterfeiting and diversion are adding significant risk to manufacturers and their brands. This workshop will look at the current state of supply chain issues impacting product safety, security and efficiency and explore how enterprises are using advanced technologies to address some of these key issues.
Ann Grackin, Managing Director – Supply Chain Intelligence, Marsh
Stewart McCutcheon, CEO, Acsis Inc
Moderator: MA Executive Editor Jeff Moad
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| 3:20 PM |
Orchestrating Around Trends: Growing Movement for Sustainability Is your company "going green?" Has your business clearly defined what it means to be environmentally excellent? There are many questions surrounding the sustainability trend as manufacturers move forward with the idea. This session will discuss what changes in business operations, including the IT department, manufacturers have to anticipate and plan for, and how they can develop sustainable practices as they "go green."
Donald J. Weintritt, Global Supply Chain Technology Director, Dow Chemical Company
Bill Canis, Vice President for Research and Innovation, The Manufacturing Institute at the National Association of Manufacturers
Kimberly Knickle, Practice Director, Emerging Agenda, Manufacturing Insights
Moderator: MA Executive Editor Paul Tate
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| 4:00 PM |
Things To Come: Predictions for the Year Ahead
What are some of the ideas and technologies that will drive significant business change for manufacturers in the years ahead? How will computing be conducted in the future and how will people interact with systems? Our panel of analysts and futurists will share their insights into such topics as the mobile enterprise, advanced sensor technology, new forms of user interfaces and interactivity such as telepresence, and the idea of utility computing. We will look at what these technologies may look like in the decade ahead and the significance they hold for manufacturing.
Bob Parker, VP, Research, Manufacturing, Managing Insights
Ann Grackin, Managing Director- Supply Chain Intelligence, Marsh
Simon Jacobson, Senior Research Analyst, AMR Research
Joshua Greenbaum, Principal, Enterprise Applications Consulting
Ralph Rio, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group
Moderator: MA Editor-in-Chief David Brousell
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| 4:40 PM |
Conference Program Concludes
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| 6:30 PM |
Progressive Manufacturing 50 Gala Cocktail Reception
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| 7:30 PM |
Fourth Annual Progressive Manufacturing 50 Summit & Awards Black Tie Gala Celebrate the new Progressive Manufacturing 50 Award Winners, witness the unveiling of the 2008 Progressive Manufacturer of the Year, and be the first to congratulate the High Achievers selected by our distinguished panel of judges for each of Managing Automation 's eight Progressive Manufacturing Award categories. As the evening transpires, mix and mingle with past and present award honorees as you enjoy the Four Seasons' best dining accompanied by fine California wines. This is an exclusive, black-tie gathering that is open only to attendees of the Progressive Manufacturing Summit, past manufacturing award alumni, and guests of 2008 honorees. This is the annual gathering of the manufacturing industry's elite.
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