2005 Programme

Day 1 - 12 October 2005
7.30

Registration and Coffee

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

10.30

Coffee break

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
12.30

Lunch break

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
15.30

Coffee break

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

17.30

Drinks reception

18.00 Gala dinner

  • Ron Harbour, President, Harbour Consulting



Day 2 - 13 October 2005
7.30

Registration and coffee

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
10.30

Coffee break

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
12.30

Lunch beak

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
15.30

Coffee break