Conference Information
To remain profitable, manufacturers are being forced to change the way they do business. Many companies have made great efforts to improve their processes, including modernizing their ERP, Supply Chain Management, and Product Lifecycle Management systems.
Yet none of these investments address the shop floor, where a manufacturer's strategy becomes reality. Through synchronized, collaborative, flexible manufacturing operations systems, manufacturers are focusing beyond optimizing and synchronizing production, quality, and material processes at individual plants. They are also harmonizing these activities across all global plants while seamlessly connecting to corporate business, supply chain, and design functions.
View this on-demand event to learn how many world-class manufacturers are beating today's economic challenges by focusing on the shop floor as a vital part of their manufacturing operations strategy -- and why you should too. You hear from:
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Pierfrancesco Manenti, Senior IDC Manufacturing research analyst, shares findings from IDC's latest research. You learn about the compelling reason to focus on shop floor operations, with the ultimate goal of global, harmonized, real-time manufacturing capabilities.
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Dave Forcucci, manufacturing operations analyst from HP, provides examples of how several top manufacturers are bringing a manufacturing operations focus to the heart of their strategy. You see how these companies are enjoying improved customer satisfaction, increased cash flow and rapid ROI.
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.
Pierfrancesco Manenti
Senior Manufacturing Research Analyst
IDC
Pierfrancesco Manenti is the EMEA research director for manufacturing insights and is the global lead for the operations technology strategies advisory service. In this role he provides insight into the key issues and trends affecting manufacturing industries in EMEA, including discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, automotive, fashion, CPG, and high-tech. Among the process domain areas, Manenti specializes in manufacturing operations, supply chains, and product life-cycle strategies.
Manenti has developed strong experience in understanding industry-specific business process challenges and vertical-specific technology trends in order to provide strategies on IT demand from both the end-user and vendor perspectives. He analyzes and anticipates key trends in industry-specific business process challenges, forecasts IT strategies and spending in specific sub-verticals, and provides consulting and advisory support to end-user organizations as well as IT vendors.
A senior executive with over 15 years industry experience in product management, marketing, business development, and manufacturing operations and supply chain management consulting and solutions implementation, Manenti is a thought leader with strong focus on the business value of technology in manufacturing.
Manenti has a degree in computer science from Pisa University (Italy).
Dave Forcucci
Manufacturing Operations Analyst
HP
David M. Forcucci is currently an applications consultant at EDS, an HP company. He brings over 22 years experience in manufacturing information technology and technical consulting fields. All of his experience has been working with the EDS/HP engineering and manufacturing group. Forcucci specializes in manufacturing execution and tracking systems and services. He possesses expansive knowledge in several fields. He has worked with many customers in various manufacturing industry segments including: automotive, high technology, consumer goods, agricultural equipment, and food industries. In his current role as an enterprise eonsultant, he also provides leadership for ten managing consultants responsible for developing new business and providing consulting on engineering and manufacturing projects.
Forcucci has initiated and directed numerous manufacturing consulting and systems implementation projects. He has provided expert design guidance and project management to a variety of clients regarding plant floor execution, error proofing, tracking and traceability, throughput analysis, and warehouse and inventory systems. He has implemented ISO 9001 registered quality processes at EDS/HP and for clients and served as ISO Management Representative.