The purpose of this session is to discuss the tools, and core competencies, required to employ the Internet to extend a company’s engineering competitiveness across the supply chain to effectively utilize all of the resources available to better conduct engineering.

Who Should Attend:

Those with a responsibility to reduce both the time and effort to engineer and manufacture products through working with their suppliers and partners to capture, create and reuse knowledge in a shared environment.

Session Agenda:

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
Integrated Manufacturing Technology Roadmapping
Richard Neal, Program Manager, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems

4:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Distributed PDM Services
TBD

Objectives:

This session will cover six major topics:

1. Infrastructure required for Internet based engineering and manufacturing enterprise,
2. Need for generic interactive knowledge base,
3. Distributed PDMS,
4. Shared data storage and retrieval,
5. Networking and communications,
6. Decision support.

Background:

In order for U.S. companies to ensure their competitiveness in today’s global environment, they must become sufficiently flexible to rapidly design and make products around the world to meet varying regional market demands. This flexibility will require the ability to maintain a fully vertical integrated product development and production capability while reducing the cost of complex products.

Technique:

During this session, the evolving vision and the technology required to support enterprise-wide engineering and manufacturing will be presented. Both the current technology state and the opportunities to participate to further definition of the vision will be discussed.

Session Contact: Bill Wadell - 734-995-9774, billw@ncms.org