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Overview

Agenda

Presentations

Exhibits

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6:00 – 9:00 pm
Welcome Reception

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7:00 - 8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
Concurrent Tutorials
8:00 – 8:40 am
Technologies Research Corporation (TRC)
8:00 – 9:45 am
Financing Commercialization of R&D for Small- to Medium-Sized Businesses
Toyota Product Development Process – An Overview
Decisions Made at the Speed of Light – Project Team
Collaboration Using the Internet and Other Emerging Tools
Development and Use of Roadmaps for your Technical Agenda
TRIZ Methodology for Problem Solving and Technological Forecasting
8:45 – 9:45 am
Interactive Distance Learning (IDL)
Plenary Sessions
10:00 – 10:30 am
Intro & Setting the Stage
Mark A. Medley, Chairman, NCMS Board of Directors
Dr. John A. Decaire, NCMS President
10:30 – 11:15 am
Collaboration: Partnering with the Government to Achieve Your Technology Vision,
Kyoto Agreements on Climate Change
Denise F. Swink, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Industrial Technologies, U.S. Department of Energy
11:15 – 12:15 pm
Panel Discussion
Automotive OEM – Richard F. Pearson,
Manager, Manufacturing Technology Planning, Ford Motor Company
Automotive Supplier – Brian R. Carlisle, Chairman and CEO, Adept Technology, Inc.
Aerospace – D. Scott Duvall, Manager, Manufacturing Process Development, UTC/Pratt & Whitney
Aerospace Technology Supplier – Lawrence J. Rhoades, President, Extrude Hone Corporation
12:15 – 1:15 pm
Lunch, Speaker and Awards Presentation
CTI and the 1998 Biennial National Critical Technologies Report, Steven Popper, Associate Director, Critical Technologies Institute (CTI)
Concurrent Sessions
2:00 – 5:00 pm
U.S. Heat Treat Industry: Achieving the Vision
Electronic Business Overview and Trends
Environmental Roadmapping and Collaboration
Emerging Technologies (Co-sponsored by NCMS and
The Engineering Society of Detroit)
2:00 – 5:30 pm
From Today’s Machine Tool Industry’s Roadmap to Tomorrow’s Machine Tool Capability

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7:00 – 8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 am
NCMS Annual Membership Meeting
Concurrent Sessions
8:30 – 12:00 pm
Rapid Prototyping, the next 10 years - Roadmapping the Rapid Prototyping Industry
9:00 – 12:00 pm
Welding Industry Roadmap
Advanced Electronics Industry: Identifying Technology Gaps
Forging Industry Roadmap: Progress through Partnerships
Engineering on the Net: A Review of the InfoTEST Enhanced Product Realization Project
Plenary Session
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Lunch, Speaker – William T. Monahan, Chairman and CEO, Imation Corp.
Concurrent Sessions
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Manufacturing Controls Roadmap
Enterprise Integration Roadmap and Integrated Manufacturing Technology Roadmap (IMTR)
Financing Commercialization of R&D for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses and R&D Funding (SBIR Grant Writing Workshop)
2:00 – 5:15 pm
Chemicals, Polymers and Composites
2:00 – 5:30 pm
The Future of Aluminum and its Enabling Technologies

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7:00 – 8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
Plenary Sessions
8:00 – 10:00 am
Feedback from the Roadmap Sessions.
Report on enabling technology needs.
10:00 – 11:30 am
Daniel Burrus – Finding the Right Recipe – How to mix your collaborative agenda with technology development.
11:30 – 12:00 pm
The process. Open forum with Daniel Burrus.
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