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Creating Superior Operations Performance Through Adaptive Manufacturing

On-Demand Webcast - 01hr 12 min

• Challenges faced by manufacturers as a consequence of the lack of interoperability among their plant-to-enterprise business processes -- and their performance implications
• How the hierarchy of metrics from the Enterprise and the Plant Floor can be leveraged to drive superior performance management by exception
• How Celanese, a leading chemicals manufacturer, is enabling a demand-driven and metrics-based performance management system across its global manufacturing operations, aligned with its corporate objectives
• Key capabilities of the SAP, Factory Logic and Apriso Manufacturing solutions and their benefits for real-world manufacturers

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. Andy Dé Sr. Dir of Application Solutions Management, SAP Andy Dé (www.andyde.com) is Senior Director of Applications Solutions Management (ASM) for SAP's Manufacturing Solution, and is based in Dallas, TX. In this role, Andy is globally resposible for solution strategy, vision, packaging, field enablement, messaging and positioning, market awareness and demand generation for the SAP Manufacturing solution. He has over six years of manufacturing operations management experience in discrete manufacturing, and over 10 years of technology solutions marketing and management experience. Dé holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Bombay, India, and a master's degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida. He has an International MBA (I-MBA) from the TelAviv International School of Management (TISOM), Israel and a MBA in Business Strategy and Marketing from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He has lived, worked, studied or trained in the US, Canada, India, Israel, France, Germany and Italy, and is proficient in five languages including English and French. Brenda Hightower Manufacturing Digitization Team Manager, Celanese Corporation Brenda Hightower is a Manufacturing Digitization Team Manager in the Corporate IT Shared Systems Organization in Celanese Corporation. In this role, Brenda is responsible for the IT enabled performance improvement and Operational Excellence initiatives pertaining to manufacturing. Brenda has oversight for projects to rapidly install Manufacturing Execution Systems infrastructure and applications globally across Celanese Corporation, automating information transfer between systems to streamline work processes, as well as the delivery of role-based, real-time performance information to employees across the enterprise and the plant floor. Brenda has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MBA from Texas A&M University. She is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt and a PMI Project Management Professional, and has worked with Celanese Corporation for over 25 years.