Day 1 - 12 October 2005 |
7.30
| Registration and Coffee
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| 8.30 | SESSION 1: AUTOMATION AND SAFETY |
| Guarding people and profit: - Balancing labour cost with increased automation
- Wireless and other production control systems
- Safety BUS systems and connectivity
- Jim Caie, Director CCRW Plant Floor, Common & Advanced Systems, CCRW, General Motors
- Michael Stamper, Manager, Advance Process Group, OSH, DaimlerChrysler
- Thomas Pilz, CEO, Pilz USA
- Sundar Balu, Director, Industry Marketing-Automotive, Woodhead Industries
- Claude Dinsmoor, General Manager Product Development,Fanuc Robotics Inc North America
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10.30
| Coffee break
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| 11.00 | SESSION 2: POWERTRAIN AND MACHINING |
| New technologies mean greater challenges for OEM and supplier alike: - Casting and CGI technologies
- Machining and automation in motor and transmission production
- Specialised powertrain materials - powder metallurgy and specialised steels
- Brian Harlow, Director of Powertrain Advance Manufacturing Engineering, Daimler Chrysler
- Ed Northern, Director, Global Manufacturing, Energy & Chassis Division, Delphi Automotive Systems
- Willi Nef, Vice President and Head of the Business Unit - Multispindle, Tornos
- Nancy Berg, Executive Director and General Manager, Society of Manufacturing Engineers
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12.30
| Lunch break
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| 14.00 | SESSION 3: BODY-IN-WHITE |
| The rise of outsourcing in structures and panels: - Tool and die - spark erosion and smart steels
- Pressing and stamping, tailored blanks and high-strength steels
- New materials - lightweighting with new materials
- Rama Koganti, Body Engineering Technical Expert, Ford Motor Company
- Jayson Pankin, New Venture Creation Specialist, Delphi Technologies
- Tim Morris, Technical Sales Manager, TRUMPF Laser Technology Center
- Vallury Prabhakar, CEO/General Manager, AutoForm Engineering, USA
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15.30
| Coffee break
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| 16.00 | SESSION 4: DIGITAL MANUFACTURING |
| Visualising the future of vehicles and plants: - The virtual automobile - optimising structures for crashability and profit
- Factory and process design - from whole plant layouts to individual cells
- The logistics aspect - getting materials and components in efficiently, and products out profitably
- Janice Goral, Manager, Virtual Manufacturing Engineering, Ford Motor Company
- Jack Hu, PhD, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
- Sadler Love, Senior Scientist/Team Leader,Milliken Research Corporation
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17.30
| Drinks reception
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| 18.00 | Gala dinner |
| - Ron Harbour, President, Harbour Consulting
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Day 2 - 13 October 2005
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7.30
| Registration and coffee
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| 8.30 | SESSION 5: ASSEMBLY AND THE MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE |
| The rise of assembly automation - Assembly outsourcing - fine-tuning the supply chain
- Conveyors and robotics
- Dr Doug Hawksworth, Senior Scientist, Materials & Joining Technology, Dana Corporation
- Wim Van Acker, Managing Partner of North American Operations,Roland Berger
- Keith Cooley, Chief Operating Officer, Focus:HOPE
- Scott Chakmak, Director, Strategic Accounts Powertrain,Schneider Electric
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10.30
| Coffee break
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| 11.00 | SESSION 6: LEAN MANUFACTURING, INTEGRATION AND PROCESS DESIGN |
| From architects to specifiers - The role of the integrator - the 'off-the-peg' plant or line
- Digital visualisation and production planning
- Finding the right location - brownfield and beyond
- Ken Kreafle, General Manager of Production Engineering, Toyota Motor Manufacturing USA
- Wolf-Dietrich Schulz, Vice President Manufacturing, Magna Steyr
- Martin Stuckhardt, President, IPF America
- Michael Ryan, Senior Vice President, Ghafari Associates
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12.30
| Lunch beak
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| 14.00 | SESSION 7: MEASUREMENT, TESTING AND QUALITY |
| How equipment providers can empower suppliers to meet OEMs' demands: - Laser measuring systems
- CMMs and 'hard' measuring
- Virtual quality - perfecting the process on screen
- Off- and on-the-line testing - making the fix in good time
- Mary Ellen Rosenberger, Manager, Paint Strategy - Paint Engineering, Ford Motor Company
- Dwight Carlson, Chairman and CEO, Micron Manufacturing Initiative/b>
- Tim Cronyn, Director of Business Development, Hexagon Metrology
- Kevin Santilli, Strategic Development Manager, Carl Zeiss
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15.30
| Coffee break
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