Special Breakfast Presentation: Defying the Times: Driving Growth, Competitive Advantage, and New Business Models Through Technology

Unprecedented economic times call for equally exceptional business solutions to maintain customer service levels and spur growth. Manufacturing companies have a unique opportunity to drive significant competitive landscape changes as a result of this current economic disruption. Hear from noted industry consultancy Deloitte on how emerging technologies, such as asset intelligence, provide an innovative approach to creating competitive advantage, driving growth, and establishing new business models through technology.

Featured Speaker: Tim Hanley, Vice Chairman and U.S. Process and Industrial Products Leader, Deloitte & Doug Standley, Principal, Deloitte

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Official Opening of the 5th Annual Progressive Manufacturing Summit - Redefining the Business of Manufacturing in Turbulent Economic Times

Featured Speaker: David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation Media

The New Economic Landscape

The worldwide economic crisis that exploded last year has reshaped markets, consumer behavior, notions of how to create wealth and even ideas about government’s role in the economy. Is there a fundamental transformation of the economy underway or is the current crisis just a cyclical phase? Hear from a top Federal Reserve official why the economy has changed, how these changes will play out and affect manufacturing companies, and what the shape of the economy may look like in the next few years.
Featured Speaker: William A. Strauss, Senior Economist and Economic Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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Redrawing the Organization: Why Enterprise Integration Is Key

The ability to compete effectively in the global manufacturing marketplace of the 21st century demands that companies act as one, and with all the power they can muster. Emerging Web 2.0 technologies that enable the integration of people and business processes are key to creating agile and fast-moving organizations. This panel will help you understand the dynamics of manufacturing’s new organizational paradigm.
Speakers: Jim Wetzel, Technical Director for Control and Information Systems, General Mills Inc.;
Eric Golden, CEO, Equipois; & Jim Huempfner, Area Vice President in the Industries Solutions Practice, AT&T
Moderated by Mark Halper, Executive Editor, Manufacturing Executive Magazine.

Lunch Presentation: Reviving Profits: How Prescriptive Analytics Can Revolutionize Decision Making

The most critical transformation in most companies is the transformation from legacy decision-making practices to fact-based, technology-enabled decisions. Even in recessionary times, boardrooms and planning sessions are still hampered with ego, bravado, and inadequate information. But there is a better way. Learn how technical advances have made analyzing massive amounts of data incredibly fast and more accurate than ever before possible, leading to far better business decisions and outcomes.
Featured Speaker: Andrew Bielat, President & CEO, EIS Analytics

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Case Study: How Whirlpool Achieves 'Perfect' Alignment

In today’s economic climate, manufacturing teams are under greater pressure than ever to minimize operating costs, optimize returns, meet delivery targets, and comply with quality standards. Balancing these competing priorities can seem insurmountable. This presentation showcases Whirlpool Corporations strategy and vision towards the perfect plant, a transformational journey in which companies combine IT investments and business processes to align planning, asset management and execution to directly impact corporate objectives and financial performance.with strategic objectives. Learn first hand how this approach has already demonstrated extraordinary results - such as a 20x ROI in the first two years across 30 plants worldwide.

Featured Speaker: Alan Douville, CIO Whirlpool and Paul Boris, Solution Principle and Senior Director of Perfect Plant, SAP

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Re-wiring Decision Making: Crafting the Intelligent Enterprise

When conditions outside a company’ control spiral downward, the need to optimize what can be controlled increases, and there’s nothing like a sagging economy to inspire a long look in the mirror. In response, progressive manufacturers are finding new ways to use business intelligence to their advantage — by unearthing process improvements they didn’t know were possible.

Speakers: Donna Lasher, Vice President, Okay Industries, Inc. & Jean-Sébastien Pelletier, Responsable amélioration continue, secteur bois de construction, Maibec Inc.; & Maha Muzumdar, Vice President, Supply Chain Marketing, Oracle
Moderated by Jeff Moad, Executive Editor, Managing Automation Magazine

Rethinking Innovation: Unlocking Competitive Advantage

So-called “great” ideas can be a dime a dozen. While companies need to foster a culture of creativity, the key to creating competitive advantage is to establish processes that can turn good ideas into commercially successful innovations. Hear from leading thinkers on innovation about the best organizational and managerial strategies to unlock the treasures in your company.

Speakers: Tom Walsh, North American Automotive and Industrial Equipment Industry Lead, Accenture; & Dave Pierson, Senior Design Engineer, Magnet Product Design & Development; Paul Hoy, Global Industry Director, Industrials, IBM
Moderated by Paul Tate, Executive Editor, Manufacturing Executive magazine

Wireless Automation in Manufacturing, the Hotbed of Innovation, a workshop with AT&T

Speakers: Meredith Powers, Sr. Marketing Manager, Manufacturing, Industry Solutions; & Dan Miller, Director, Industry Solutions Practice; & Glenn Servis, Senior Director, Information Technology, Toshiba America Medical Systems (TAMS)

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Special Breakfast Presentation: The Perfect Plant

Speakers: Andre Pino, Acsis Inc., Mike Forshey and Denise Bartorelli, IGT; Jon Peterson, and Carol Jackson, OSIsoft, Inc., Tony Malangone, RTI, & Vivek Bapat, SAP

L'Oreal's Path to Global Manufacturing Excellence

L'Oreal, a € 20B global cosmetics leader, is implementing a combined SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and Apriso MOM solution (FlexNet) create a standardized IT platform for operational excellence across each of its factories worldwide. By establishing a consistent platform for manufacturing operations, L'Oreal has positioned the company for continued future excellence in product quality, technology adoption and systems' user-friendliness. To reap early benefits while reducing risk and cost, L'Oreal is leveraging a "Core" deployment model that captures best practices and streamlines implementation across their supply chain management processes, helping to consistently apply and continually improve operational best practices across their organization.

Featured Speaker: Morris Lenczicki, Vice President, ISIS North America Project Manager, L'Oréal USA

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Redefining Enterprise Architecture: Leveraging Supply Chain Strengths to Improve Organizational Performance

Leveraging advances it has made in managing its supply chain, ADTRAN, a major communications equipment manufacturer, is now crafting an enterprise information architecture that will better align multiple functions, including product development, in the company. This session will address the importance of a consistent, homogeneous corporate information architecture and how it can help companies perform better in times good and bad.
Featured Speaker: Thomas Dadmun, Vice President Program Management Office, ADTRAN

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Redefining Innovation Excellence: The Power of New Ideas

In an exclusive on-to-one conversation, Shell Chief Scientist Jose Bravo discusses the business potential of some of the latest new technologies and explains how one of Europe’s premier companies has created dedicated innovation processes that foster global collaboration and bridge the critical gap between new ideas and profitable business execution.

Speakers: Jose Bravo, Chief Scientist, Shell Global Solutions Inc. In Conversation with Stephanie Neil, Senior Editor, Managing Automation Magazine

Improve Communications and Drive Efficiencies in Your Manufacturing Environment, and Beyond, a workshop with Sprint
Now more than ever efficiencies equal improved bottom lines. Learn to leverage the full power of wireless communications and applications in your manufacturing environment. Improve responsiveness to customer demands, decrease equipment downtime by improving maintenance response time, lower inventory costs by improving communications across the supply chain, access real-time inventory and parts information, and even replicate a full-featured in-office communication environment for remote and off-site employees through wireless integration. And that isn’t all! Find out how Land Mobile Radio (LMR) augmentation can allow you to consolidate your current wireless devices into a single handset.

Speakers: Kamal Garg, Manager, Sprint Converged Network Solutions, Business Development; and David Tuttle, Regional Manager for Converged Network Solutions (CNS), Sprint Nextel|

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Management Enterprise Mobility

The world has gone wireless. Nearly 4 billion people use a cellphone - that's almost two thirds of the planet’s population. Yet manufacturers continue to labor with cables and wires connecting machines, sensors, people, processes and software across the plant and the enterprise. Why is manufacturing such a mobile Luddite, and when will things change?

Speakers: Charles Childers, IT Director, Metrolina Greenhouses, Kamal Garg, Manager, Sprint Converged Network Solutions, Business Development, Cathal Strain,Senior Director, Pfizer PGM
Moderated by Mark Halper, Executive Editor, Manufacturing Executive magazine

Things to Come: What Does the Future Hold?

What are some of the ideas and technologies that will drive significant business change for manufacturers in the years ahead? What will manufacturing systems look like and how will people interact with systems? MA’s annual gathering of analysts and researchers will provide insights into such topics as Beyond Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, Software-As-A-Service, Enterprise Mobility and the Corporation of the Future.

Speakers: Robert Parker, VP, Research, Manufacturing Insights, Julie Fraser, President, Cambashi, Inc.; Sath Rao, Research Manager, Frost & Sullivan
Moderated by David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation Media, Jeff Moad, Executive Editor, Managing Automation Media