Conference Information
As a manufacturer in today's economic climate, you are being forced to do more with less. Your company is probably facing uncertain production objectives and a desire to reduce costs while maintaining or increasing efficiency. Moreover, most companies like yours are concentrating less on the grand, multi-year vision for the enterprise and more on its near-term needs to meet today's urgent goals.
View this IndustryWeek-hosted on-demand event to learn how real-time collaboration between engineering and manufacturing can help you. You'll discover how your company can achieve higher rates of production efficiency today, while also putting your company in a good position for the future.
You'll learn:
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How to align engineering data with manufacturing to improve engineering deliverables such as process planning
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How to leverage manufacturing knowledge in the engineering process to improve knowledge transfer
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How to increase manufacturing visibility to change in order to reduce the cost of change
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How to improve configuration management through a tight integration between engineering and manufacturing
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How to reduce manufacturing waste through visiblity to the right engineering information at the right time
Speakers
Adrienne Selko
eMedia Editor
IndustryWeek
Adrienne Selko manages the editorial content of IndustryWeek's award-winning Web site. Before joining the staff in 2004, Selko was managing editor of corporate publications at a large regional financial institution. She was also an editor for the U.S. based publication of a medical manufacturing company. Prior to that she ran a public relations and marketing company that published a best-selling healthcare book. Selko received a bachelor's of business administration from the University of Michigan.
Judson Plapp
Vice President, Marketing & Corporate Strategy
Intercim
Judson Plapp is responsible for leading corporate strategy development and execution, providing support to business development and sales activities, communications and media relations. As Intercim's former VP of Operations, Plapp's expertise covers pre-sales consulting, business process, product functionality and integration. Prior to joining Intercim, He was employed by Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he managed enterprise application development and integration, including supply chain integration on both a local and global scale.
Plapp holds a master's in management of technology from the University of Minnesota and is a member of MENSA International where he was recognized by International Who's Who of Professionals for 2002.
Patrick Michel
Vice President, DELMIA Industry Solutions & Marketing
Dassault Systèmes
Patrick Michel was appointed vice president, DELMIA Industry Solutions & Marketing in 2005. He joined Dassault Systèmes in 1996 after graduating in electrical engineering at the University of Grenoble in France and having completed a master's of engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College. He started his career in the CATIA V4 Industrialization department quickly taking responsibility for the Industrialization of the PLM products in particular ENOVIAvpm and CATIA V4/V5.
After three years in Dassault Systèmes, Michel took on the challenging two year assignment as executive technical assistant to Bernard charles, CEO and president. In 2002 he was appointed R&D Director for CATIA and SmarTeam PLM Solutions, defining and bringing to market Dassault Systèmes PLM Solutions for the Small and Medium size companies.
In his current position he leads the Industry Solutions & Marketing organization for DELMIA, Dassault Systemes' brand for digital manufacturing, defining solutions for the different industries including automotive, aerospace & shipbuilding industries.