Forging Industry Roadmap:
Progress through Partnerships
May 5, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Purpose:

The purpose of this session is to review the ongoing Forging Industry Roadmap and assess progress, opportunities, and issues. This session will allow current participants and stakeholders to see the "topography" of projects, realign current and future research objectives, and preview the challenges for implementation of the next phase of roadmap project initiatives. A collaboration of manufacturing, engineering, research, tooling, and academia has been assembled to sustain the forging initiative to allow for cross-cutting technologies and broad industrial participation throughout the manufacturing community. The next series of projects will be identified and endorsed as the enabler for the 1998-99 R&D agenda.

Who Should Attend:

Forging industry executives, directors of engineering and manufacturing, manufacturing engineering resources and production managers, machine tool builders, and die and tooling resources should consider attending this cross-cutting industry roadmap review. The current Forging Industry has developed a comprehensive roadmap and is in the process of executing projects and programs whose intent is the completion of the roadmap objectives.

Session Agenda:

9:00 am – 9:15 am
Agenda and Process
Kerry Barnett, Director, NCMS

9:15 am – 9:45 am
Forging Industry Roadmap Overview
George Mochnal, Director, Research & Education, FIA/FIERF

9:45 am - 10:30 am
Tooling and Materials Status
Charles Gure, Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer Consultants

10:30 am - 11:00 am
Energy and Environment Status
Kerry Barnett, Director, NCMS

11:00 am - 11:30 am
Quality and Productivity Status Including Equipment
Harold Gegel, Director, UES, Inc.
Ravikiran Duggirala, Sr. Manufacturing Process Engineer, General Motors Corporation

11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Summary
Harold Gegel, Director, UES, Inc.
George Mochnal, Director, Research & Education, FIA/FIERF

Objectives:

  1. Review of dynamic Forging Industry Roadmap,
  2. Progress report for ongoing collaborative and cooperative development projects,
  3. Industry status report,
  4. Call for programs,
  5. Funding opportunities and prospects,
  6. Cross-cutting technology scorecard.

Background:

A copy of the Forging Industry Roadmap and the accompanying Forging Industry Vision is available through the Forging Industry Association by calling 216-781-6260. A white paper on Advanced Precision Forging will be posted on the NCMS Web Site for review and edit.

Technique:

A facilitated session, using the Forging Industry Roadmap matrix will be utilized to assess progress, inventory ongoing projects and identify the gaps in both near and long-term research and development. Outcomes will be prepared in report format for attendees.

Session Contact: Kerry J. Barnett - 734-995-4974, kerryb@ncms.org
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