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Operational Efficiency: The Future of Manufacturing Productivity Webcast Series

On-Demand Webcast - approximately 1 hr

• Accelerate, sustain, and benchmark operational performance initiatives like lean manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma and other continuous improvement methods
• Find out how these disciplines can be used for maximum productivity improvements

Moderator

David R. Brousell Editor-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.

Panelists

Colin Masson Research Director, AMR Research Inc. Colin is a research director for manufacturing operations and chemical and process industries at AMR Research. He began his career with National Chemical Products, a Division of Sentrachem and now a Dow Chemical subsidiary, in plant operations, working with the company for fourteen years and eventually serving as Chief Information Officer. He also served as Chief Technology Officer for Marcam, a process Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) company, in addition to working at Invensys developing the company's real-time enterprise strategy. His expertise also includes business process management and enterprise application integration. Masson holds a BSc Honors in Chemical Engineering from The University of Surrey, England. Sudy Bharadwaj CMO & Vice President, Solutions Consulting, Informance International Sudy brings to Informance nearly 20 years of business process leadership, and was most recently senior analyst and vice president of global supply management research programs for Aberdeen Group. Prior to Aberdeen, he was a member of the management team of MINDFLOW Technologies, a leading strategic sourcing solutions provider. Sudy has also served in a variety of management roles spanning marketing, sales, product management, program management, and consulting at i2, Hewlett-Packard, Scientific Computing Associates and ParaSoft Corporation. First launching his career as a software developer, Sudy earned his B.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Greg Joachims Senior Business Unit Project Manager, Cargill Inc., Cargill Salt Greg is a senior project manager for Cargill Salt with 16 years of manufacturing operations experience and currently manages enterprise level strategic business modeling. He began his career on the plant floor supervising and scheduling production. These experiences eventually led to key roles in the development and implementation of enterprise resource planning, sales & operational planning, and advanced planning systems. Greg has held various management roles in manufacturing operations, plant & enterprise scheduling, supply chain, and demand planning/forecasting.