Manufacturing 2.0: Multi-Industry Case Studies: Improving Quality While Speeding Time to Market
On-Demand Webcast - 01hr 02 min
Much like PLM has changed product design and modern ERP products have revamped corporate information backbones, manufacturing itself is beginning an operational transformation built on new forms of collaboration and integration. Leading manufacturers are learning that they can make major improvements in manufacturing processes by more tightly linking product design and the supply chain. Through better collaboration on process planning, execution and quality, manufacturers can reduce costs, shorten cycle times and accelerate the delivery of product to customers.
This more collaborative model for manufacturing - called Manufacturing 2.0 - is already being adopted by leading industrial companies. Learn how your company can reap the benefits of this approach and increase customer satisfaction, improve production performance and drive greater profitability for your company.
In this informative webcast, hear case studies from manufacturers in the Aerospace, Automotive and Pharmaceuticals industries who leverage the advantages of Manufacturing 2.0 every day.
Featured companies:
- Airbus
- BMW
- Continental
- Sanofi Pasteur
Watch Now and learn:
- How to break down barriers and drive integration among key business, engineering, manufacturing, quality and supply network processes and constituents
- How to implement best practices in lean manufacturing
- How to improve time to market, quality and reduce manufacturing costs
- How to improve production line performance and profitability
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 |  | David R. BrousellEditor-in-Chief, Managing Automation David R. Brousell has been Editor-in-Chief of Managing Automation since 1998. Brousell started his career in technology journalism in 1978 at Electronic News. In 1985, he joined Datamation Magazine, and was named Editor-in-Chief in 1991. Brousell has covered numerous industry developments, technology shifts and major product introductions, including the mainframe era and the development of relational databases; the rise of the minicomputer; the advent of personal computing, client-server computing and the evolution of enterprise applications, and the dawn of the Internet and the worldwide web. Along the way, he has interviewed such notables as ENIAC inventor J. Presper Eckert, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Jr., Microsoft's Bill Gates, Oracle's Larry Ellison, Cincom's Tom Nies, Lotus's Mitchell Kapor, Netscape's James Barksdale, and Intel's Andrew Grove. Brousell has received numerous journalism awards, including two consecutive Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Awards, the highest award for business journalism in the U.S. Under his leadership at MA, the magazine has been cited 9 times for editorial achievement.
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|  | Judson Plapp Vice President Marketing and Strategy, IntercimJud 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, Jud's expertise covers pre-sales consulting, business process, product functionality and integration. Prior to joining Intercim, Jud 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.
Jud holds a Master of Science in Management of Technology from the University of Minnesota. | |  | Alain CrusetFormer Vice President for Industrial Technologies & Operations, Sanofi AventisAlain Cruset has over 30 years experience in the manufacturing industry.
As Vice-President for Industrial Technologies and Industrial Operations at Sanofi Aventis, Cruset was responsible for Engineering, Process Excellence, and Technology Transfer between R&D and Industrial Operations worldwide.
During previous assignments with DOW, Marion Merrell Dow and then Hoechst Marion Roussel, he was the Site Manager for both Active Ingredients sites and Drug Products sites, in France and in Italy. Cruset is a Director on the International Board of the ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering), a former Secretary and Founder of the French affiliate and has been a member of this organization since 1990.
Mr. Cruset holds a Chemical Engineering degree from the Strasbourg based Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie and a PhD from the University of Strasbourg. | |  | Alison SmithSenior Research Analyst, AMR Research Inc.Alison Smith brings more than 25 years of manufacturing software development, support, marketing, and sales experience to her role as senior research analyst at AMR Research. As a senior analyst in AMR Research's Market Services group, Alison is dedicated to the detailed study of the productive application of information technology to the challenges faced by global producers as they seek to implement and evolve demand-driven manufacturing strategies.
Alison's current research focus is manufacturing operations. She publishes frequently on the application of manufacturing operations software, including manufacturing execution systems, enterprise manufacturing intelligence, and asset performance management across a range of vertical industry manufacturing scenarios. She is currently investigating global specification management for process industry manufacturers.
Prior to joining AMR Research, Alison was a founding officer and marketing vice president of Framework Technologies Corporation. In this role, she focused primarily on commercialization, packaging, positioning, and the initial launch of the company's collaborative manufacturing process design application.
Alison has also held various management positions with several software companies, including Mainstream Software Corporation, Decision Software Company, Microtouch Systems, and Cyborg, a provider of data acquisition and chromatography workstations sold to the laboratory R&D environment.
Throughout her career, Alison has developed, installed, and supported supervisory control and manufacturing execution systems in a number of Fortune 500 manufacturing environments.
Alison graduated summa cum laude with a BA from the University of Wisconsin. | |
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