Engineering to Improve the Operations of
Manufacturing Enterprises
A National Symposium
May 13, 2010
The University of Michigan
(Sanctioned as a National Academy of Engineering Regional Meeting)
| 8:00-8:30 | Registration – Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Center | |
| 8:30-8:45 | Welcoming Remarks and Goals of the Symposium | Don Chaffin, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, UM |
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8:45-8:55 |
Welcome and Perspectives | Stephen R. Forrest, Vice President for Research, UM |
| 8:55-9:20 | Innovation and US-Based Manufacturing | Sridhar Kota, Assistant Director, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| 9:20-9:30 | Background Remarks & Introduction of Dr. Charles Vest | David Munson, Dean, College of Engineering, UM |
| 9:30-10:00 | Keynote Address: “Engineering’s Grandest Challenge—Keeping our Manufacturing Systems Capable of Competing in the Global Marketplace” | Charles Vest, President, National Academy of Engineering |
| 10:00-10:15 | Break | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Session 1: Operations Engineering in Customer Driven Manufacturing - “Operations Engineering: A Key to Delighting Manufacturing Enterprise Customers” | Lawrence Burns, Vice President for R & D and Strategic Planning (ret), General Motors |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Symposium Panel on Customer Driven Manufacturing |
Stephen Graves, Professor, MIT
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| 11:15-11:45 | Q&A for Session Panelists and Speakers | Moderator: Stephen Pollock, Herrick Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing, UM |
| 11:45-11:55 | Lunch Remarks (By the Tauber Institute for Global Operations) | Alan Woodliff, Industry Co-Director, Tauber Institute for Global Operations |
| 11:55-12:40 | Lunch | |
| 12:45-1:15 | Session 2: Operations Engineering Towards Green Manufacturing Systems - “21st Century Manufacturing—One tenth of the way towards sustainable manufacturing” | Sharon Nunes, Vice President for Green Innovations, IBM Corp. |
| 1:15-1:45 | Symposium Panel on Green Manufacturing Systems | Joseph Wolfsberger, Senior Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety, Eaton Corporation Steve Skerlos, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UM David Dornfeld, Will C. Hall Family Chair, Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley |
| 1:45-2:15 | Q&A for session panelists | Moderator: Wally Hopp, Herrick Professor of Manufacturing, Professor of Operations and Management Science, UM |
| 2:15-2:30 | Break | |
| 2:30-3:00 | Session 3: Operations Engineering in Defense System Acquisition, Manufacturing, and Maintenance - “Operations Engineering in the Acquisition, Manufacturing, and Maintenance of National Security and Defense Systems” | General David Maddox, US Army (ret), DMM-Consulting |
| 3:00-3:30 | Symposium Panel on Defense Systems Acquisition, Manufacturing and Maintenance | Gen. Benjamin Griffin, US Army (ret) W. Peter Cherry, Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation Mark McNitt, Manufacturing Technology Development Manager, BAE Systems |
| 3:30-4:00 | Q&A for Session Panelists and Speakers | Moderator: Seth Bonder, President, The Bonder Group |
| 4:00-5:00 | NSF Workshop Panel Presentation/Q&A | Moderators: Jack Hu, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, College of Engineering, UM Yoram Koren, Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering, UM |
| 5:00 | Adjourn | |
