Download Brochure (DAMA01.pdf - 976kb)

Download White Paper Virtual Reality helps Virtual Teams

CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS

Supporting Organizations:

DAMA1:

DAMA1 Follow-Up Page

PDMIC Review

Midrange Enterprise Review

Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Business Manager
for Supply Chain Solutions, Cisco Systems

Cisco is widely respected for its outsourcing strategy. But what makes it work, especially in product design? Learn how Cisco’s teams work with design partners to reduce product life cycle time and how they use the internet to enable Product Design and New Product Introduction.

Andy Lenzini, Chief Architect, Imaging Printing Systems, Hewlett-Packard

Andy will outline HP's current product generation environment and its vision for the future. Learn about HP’s use of cmii (standardized structure for all product related information), global CPC implementation approach and plans to create and extend e-services to and from industry communities and exchanges.

PRESENTATION/PANEL DISCUSSION:
The Evolution of Design - Five Years’ Experience

Kevin Mundt, Mgr, Mechanical Engineering, Consumer Product Design, Compaq Computer Corporation

Over the past five years, Compaq has transitioned from internal product design and development to a system that leverages its partner’s capabilities. Based on its successes and failures, this presentation will tell you:

• How to keep your employees content while your organization changes
• How to determine what processes to leverage
  and what to keep internal to your corporation
• How Compaq facilitates communication
• How to get around limiting corporate procedures

The Consumer Product Design Group has evolved these techniques over the past several years with a constant set of partners. At the end of each design and implementation cycle Compaq conducts a post-mortem meeting with these partners to look for methods of improvement.

For the latter part of this presentation, several of Compaq’s partners will join Compaq team members to conduct a "live" post-mortem and to field questions. Joining the Compaq design team will be extended team members from Design Edge (Design Consulting), Foxconn (Chassis Manufacturing), and Mitac (System Manufacturing).

Gregory Harris, Director of Engineering Systems,
Black & Decker Power Tools and Accessories

The internet has enabled people in the product development business to look at what they do in a new way. Its global nature has brought new attention to international labor rates, time zones, and of course, the need for better communication. Talent is being leveraged over large distances and collaboration tools are being asked to step in and close the gap. This presentation will examine the challenges associated with developing requirements from an organization, evaluating needs against product features, sorting out what the marketplace has to offer, and bringing it all together for organizations who have a mix of Brainiacks and Bumsteads.

Thomas Morris, CIO, Aptec & Dale Di Bernardo, OEM Senior Project Manager, Recoton Corporation

Aptec, a product development firm specializing in collaborative product commerce, and its client, Recoton, a consumer electronics manufacturer, will present a case study outlining their process for developing a wireless headset (for an OEM mini-van manufacturer’s mobile entertainment system) and the manufacturing tooling in a pure collaborative environment. The presentation will also include cost avoidance and value metrics.

• How internet based technologies were leveraged to incorporate overseas contract manufacturers
• Methods for augmenting industrial design and traditional CAD based technologies with sophisticated injection molding and finite element structural CAE analysis
• How communication and project management was supported through OneSpace collaborative technology.

Enabling Cross-Company Product Collaboration

Doug Speidel, e2open

Design collaboration and product development across company boundaries brings many challenges. This presentation will focus on what E2open is doing to enable cross company product collaboration in the electronics industry. Particular emphasis will be placed on the tools and processes currently being used to support collaboration.

TECHNOLOGIES AND NEUTRAL EXCHANGES

Tom Boelter, Supply Chain Portal Program Manager, Lucent Technologies

As more OEM providers shift from an internal manufacturing business model to one where manufacturing is done by external manufacturing service (EMS) providers, the exchange of key information and business process linkages between the OEM and its EMS partners become critical. The Internet provides the most cost effective, flexible and scalable enabler of information flow. Although many tools exist to enable business processes across organizations, there is still no single tool that provides a total solution. The use of an Internet "Portal" allows easy access to all information flow between the OEM and its EMS partner through a single gateway. Hear how Lucent Technologies is using an Internet Portal to help enable the Manufacture Anywhere part of a DAMA strategy.

Sam Rindskopf, General Manager, Louisiana Center for Manufacturing Sciences

The TIME Program has focused on the establishment of a virtual enterprise; with the overall objective to create an agile state-of-the-art virtual munitions enterprise, which uses collaborative processes and tools to achieve the life cycle of munitions. Initial emphasis has been on linking design and manufacturing requirements and the creation of a lean and agile production base. The TIME Program’s emphasis is on the use of "Commercial Off the Shelf" or COTS products, primarily those developed in support of the internet and e-commerce, B2B, etc.

The unique aspects of the TIME Program will also be discussed. The Open Modular Architecture Controller is a product that enables the communications through PCs all the way to the shop floor equipment enabling vast improvements and flexibility in manufacturing. Lawrence Livermore National Lab, (LLNL) initially developed the OMAC architecture and principles. The LCMS consortium of which LLNL is an associate member has made further enhancements. OMAC technology has been taken from the lab and applications have been matured and demonstrated on metal parts milling operation and is further being developed for chemical processes. OMAC has broad potential commercial applications as are being addressed by the OMAC User Group, which is co-chaired by representatives from General Motors and Boeing.

The Product Realization Process is a disciplined, iterative approach, which draws upon the requirements and collaborative expertise across the product’s life cycle to generate requirements and associated sub processes/tools to accomplish these. From the life cycle information required and identified, generic "PRP Toolkits" are identified and can be applied across a full range of technologies addressing metal parts, electronics, chemicals, etc.

Current TIME development activities and accomplishments will be discussed and their potential application across both the Government and Commercial production base will be obvious.

Attendees will walk away with an understanding of the TIME Program and the applicability of the TIME Program technologies across other industries and knowledge of the specific tools being used to enable the virtual munitions enterprise. How these tools have been applied to enable the enterprise to operate in a real time collaborative environment across multiple geographic locations, linking business, engineering and manufacturing processes together all the way down to the shop floor equipment. The presentation will include actual video clips from demonstrations, which have been performed to validate the TIME technologies.

Download additional background information on TIME
(TIMEBackground.doc - 164kb)

Integrated Manufacturing Technology Initiative (IMTI)

Design Anywhere, Manufacture Anywhere is a topic with a broad span of perspectives. To some, it may be a collaborative environment, utilizing the Internet, and assuring the compatibility of the design by compliance with standard protocols. To today’s progressive companies, it is an integrated design to manufacturing environment with product data management systems and the emerging integration with ERP. To the visionary, it is about integrated product realization in an interoperable environment from concept to production with optimized product designs that drive all downstream applications, and with knowledge systems that create the information needed to drive, not just a process, but the right process - all of the time. It is a totally interoperable environment that leaves the shackles of single vendor solutions behind. It is a mindset that goes beyond today’s product development goals to a breakthrough 10X reduction in the time and cost of product development.

This presentation will address the vision for integrated product realization and progress toward the vision. It will be presented by four leading practitioners and visionaries. [more detail]

Richard Neal, Executive Director of IMTI, will call upon the information of the manufacturing technology roadmaps of the Integrated Manufacturing Technology Initiative to compare the current state to the vision. [more detail]

Bob Burleson, Director of the IOWA Center for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the driving force behind many of the nation’s leading enterprise integration activities will overview today’s best programs in industry and government.

Martin Hardwick, President of STEP Tools, Inc., will talk about the "Super-Model" project and will highlight the progress in taking product models directly to the shop floor.  [more detail]

William Simons, IT System Engineer of GE/Honeywell, and a respected leader in feature based design, will discuss and demonstrate one of the tools in tomorrow’s toolset - an automated feature extraction, tolerancing, and planning module. [more detail]

David J. Torchia, Manager, Software Engineering External Business, Logicon Inc., A Northrup
Grumman Company

The session will focus on the use of Enterprise Product Data Management as an underlying technology to support Integrated Product Team (IPT) collaboration. Mr. Torchia will discuss how to address your collaboration requirements control your Engineering Change activity as well as how to effectively integrate internal functional areas, external suppliers and customers. Learn about items related to Build-To Packages and Integrated Product Teams, and some direct correlation to their use on the B-2 bomber and Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) production programs and the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) development program.

Ron Brown, Vice President, Engineering, DCT, Inc.&
Mark Yadach, Vice President, e-Commerce, DCT, Inc.

Common manufacturing wisdom brings us the $1/ $10/ $100 rule. For every dollar you might spend to fix a problem in engineering, you will need to spend ten dollars to fix it in your production, and a hundred dollars to fix it on your customer’s plant floor. This presentation will explain DCT’s seven step "Mouse to Machine 2.0" process that has improved delivery times by 25% and reduced rework by a factor of ten. DCT will show how their partnership with SmarTeam, Inc. extended this greatly improved engineering efficiency to the rest of the manufacturing enterprise.

Facilitated by the International PDM Users Group

Join candid, no-vendors-allowed roundtable discussions about the current state of some of the most widely talked about collaboration tools. How mature are these tools? Who are they working for? What real differences are they making? Hear what is working for other companies, industries and find out "what not to do" as you either select a new tool or plan to roll-out these tools to your external partners.