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Overview

Agenda

Presentations

Exhibits


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Plenary Sessions
Intro & Setting the Stage
Mark A. Medley, Chairman, NCMS Board of Directors
Dr. John A. Decaire, NCMS President
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
NCMS Collaborative Project Excellence Award Presentation
The Predictive Heat Treat Program
Mark A. Medley, Chairman, NCMS Board of Directors
Luncheon Presentation
William T. Monahan, Chairman and CEO, Imation Corp.
Feedback from the Roadmap Sessions.
Report on Enabling Technology Needs.
Presented by Industry Representatives and NCMS Staff.
Finding the Right Recipe – How to mix your collaborative agenda with technology development.
Daniel Burrus, Founder, President and CEO, Burrus Research Associates, Inc.
(Handouts from Daniel Burrus' presentation are available only to attendees via his web site -  http://www.Burrus.com
Concurrent Tutorials
(Links to both session descriptions and presentations)
Technologies Research Corporation (TRC)
TRC – Industry’s Fast Track to Collaboration
Jerry Reimann, Executive Director, Technologies Research Corporation
Decisions Made at the Speed of Light – Project Team
Collaboration Using the Internet and Other Emerging Tools
Computer Resources and Software Tools
Phil Callihan, Manager, MIS, NCMS

Internet Collaboration Tools
Kate Brayton, Director, MIRC, NCMS

Providing Security and Authentication Services in an Extranet Environment
Lance Travis, Vice President, Engineering, DASCOM, Inc.

Development and Use of Roadmaps for your Technical Agenda
Technology Roadmapping
Dr. Michael Radnor, President, IBD Inc
Interactive Distance Learning (IDL)
Interactive Distance Learning Overview
Stephen D. Ricketts, President, IDL Group, Inc.
Concurrent Sessions
(Links to both session descriptions and presentations)
U.S. Heat Treat Industry: Achieving the Vision
Introductions
Robert Gaster, Deere & Company; ASM Heat Treat Society R&D Committee Chair

ASM R&D Plan (1999)
Dr. William Dowling, Jr., Ford Motor Company

Electronic Business Overview and Trends

Electronic Commerce: What Does It Mean for Manufacturing?
Ray Lipa, President, BRL

Information Technology "Push"
Mike Kaminski, ManagerInformation Systems, General Motors

Enterprise Resource Planning Changing the Face of
Information Technology

Steve Ricketts, Principal, Advanced Manufacturing Research Consulting

Environmental Roadmapping and Collaboration
Where should we be going?
How do we get there?

Paul Chalmer, Program Manager, NCMS
Emerging Technologies
(Co-sponsored by NCMS and The Engineering Society of Detroit)
From Today’s Machine Tool Industry’s Roadmap to Tomorrow’s Machine Tool Capability
End User Needs for the Next Generation Production Equipment
Dr. Thomas Rochlitz, Manager, Machining, Forming, & Heat Treating, Ford Motor Company
Dennis Miller, Manager, Mechanical Fabrication Producibility Engineering, Raytheon Systems Co.
Rapid Prototyping, the next 10 years - Roadmapping the Rapid Prototyping Industry
Welding Industry Roadmap
NIST/ATP Prospective
Dr. Tom Siewert, Supvy Metallurgist, NIST
Advanced Electronics Industry: Identifying Technology Gaps
Review of Industry Roadmaps
Jack Fisher, Chief Technical Officer, ITRI

Research Underway
Michael Schen, Program Manager, NIST ATP

Participant Discussion on Technology Needs

Ron Brackon, SRC/SIA
Jim McElroy, NEMI

Forging Industry Roadmap: Progress through Partnerships
Agenda and Process
Kerry Barnett, Director, NCMS

Forging Industry Roadmap Overview
George Mochnal, Director, Research & Education, FIA/FIERF

Engineering on the Net: A Review of the InfoTEST Enhanced Product Realization Project
Project Overview
Dr. Bill Estrem, Senior Research Analyst, D.H. Brown Associates

EPR Scenario and Caterpillar’s Engineering Needs
Bill Petefish, Manager, Info Services Research, Caterpillar, Inc

Providing Security and Authentication Services in an Extranet Environment
Lance Travis, Vice President, Engineering, DASCOM, Inc.

Application of Workflow Technology to an Extranet Collaborative Engineering Process
Scott Torvik, Senior Account Executive, FileNet Corporation

Customer-driven Engineering through Secure Dealer Networks
Brian Handspicker, CEO & Chairman, WebEnable

The Risks and Rewards of Internet Based Commerce
Jack Tozier, Group Manager Internet Services, Sprint

Structured Collaboration Engineering Solutions Management
Bill Neill, Program Manager, Collaborative Product Development, Hewlett-Packard

The following two files contain a "white paper" and a recent project status update which document the process and progress to date of the InfoTEST Enhanced Product Realization project. For additional information, contact John Sheridan at NCMS InfoTEST (734-995-4963; johns@ncms.org)

EPR White Paper 1197.pdf
EPR_Report Supplement 050598.pdf

Manufacturing Controls Roadmap
Introduction
Tony Haynes, Program Manager, NCMS

Integrated Manufacturing Technology Roadmap
Bob Burleson, TEAM Technical Lead, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Next Generation Manufacturing Roadmap for Controls
Dr. Dick Anderson, Chief Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Enterprise Integration Roadmap and Integrated Manufacturing Technology Roadmap (IMTR)
Integrated Manufacturing Technology Roadmapping
Richard Neal, Program Manager, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems
Chemicals, Polymers and Composites
Introduction, Session Objectives
Chuck Ryan, Program Manager, NCMS
The Future of Aluminum and its Enabling Technologies
PNGV Requirements
Allan D. Murray, Manager, Technical Planning PNGV, Ford

Aerospace Requirements
James T. Staley, Consultant

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