Tuesday, March 6, 2012
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Early Registration
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
7:00 am - 8:00 am | Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 8:15 am - Opening Remarks
Scott C. Hibbard, VP-Automation, Bosch Rexroth Corporation, Chairman-AMT Technology Issues Committee
8:15 am - 9:00 am - KEYNOTE: Innovative Technologies, Manufacturing and How the F-35 is Made
Dr. Don A. Kinard, Senior Technical Fellow, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
9:00 am - 9:45 am - Advanced Composite Manufacturing Technologies
Dr. David Brookstein, Principal Investigator, Philadelphia University/MAG Composites Institute
9:45 am - 10:30 am - MTConnect: Different Devices Common Connections
David A. Edstrom, President & Chairman of the Board of Directors, MTConnect Institute
10:30 am - 10:45 am - Break
10:45 am - 11:30 am - Sustainable Manufacturing: A Case for Additive Manufacturing
Dr. Todd J. Rockstroh, Supply Chain Consulting Engineer, GE Aviation
11:30 am - 12:15 pm - Virtual High Performance Machining
Professor Yusuf Altintas, Manufacturing Automation Laboratory, The University of British Columbia
12:15 pm - Lunch
Tech Briefs: Innovative Technologies
1:15 pm - 1:40 pm - Innovative Technologies in Electronics Cooling
Dr. Robert P. Scaringe, President & Founder, Mainstream Engineering Corporation
1:40 pm - 2:05pm - Innovative Technologies and the Future of Additive Materials Manufacturing
Dr. Richard Grylls, Senior Additive Manufacturing Specialist, Optomec Inc.
2:05 pm - 2:30 pm - The Future of Ammunition Manufacturing: Growing Capability in a Declining Market
Dr. Dean L. Bartles, Vice President, Advanced Programs & Strategic Growth, General Dynamics - OTS
2:30 pm - 2:55 pm - Precision Engineering and Manufacturing Alliance Recent Breakthroughs
Dwight D. Carlson, Chairman & CEO, Coherix, Inc.
2:55 pm - 3:10 pm - Group Q&A
3:10 pm - 3:35 pm - Innovation Within Defense Manufacturing
Steve Luckowski, Chief - Materials, Mfg. & Prototype Technology Div.
U.S. Army ARDEC
3:35 pm - Break
Enhanced Productivity - Tooling:
3:45 pm - 4:10 pm - Minimum Quantity Lubrication Machining Technology for Powertrain Component Production
Dr. William Dowling, Manager, Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development, Powertrain Manufacturing Engineering, Ford Motor Company
4:10 pm - 4:35 pm - Trends in Coating Technology
Volker Derflinger, Oerlikon Balzers
4:35 pm - 5:00 pm - Innovative Coolants - Improve Your Productivity
Randy Templin, Vice President & Head of Product Management of the Americas, Blaser Swisslube, Inc.
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm - Group Q&A
5:15 pm - Wrap-up
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Reception
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Dinner
Thursday, March 8, 2012
7:00 am - 8:00 am|Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 8:45 am R&D Manufacturing Advances in China
Professor Jun Ni, Director, S.M. Wu Manufacturing Research Center, University of Michigan
8:45 am - 9:30 am R&D Manufacturing Advances in Germany
Dr.-Ing. Barbara S. Linke, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability (LMAS), University of California - Berkeley
9:30 am - 10:15 am R&D Manufacturing Advances in Brazil
Professor Reginaldo T. Coelho, Department of Production Engineering, University of São Paulo
10:15 am Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am R&D Manufacturing Advances in North America
Dr. Shreyes Melkote, Director, Precision Machining Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:15 am - Concluding Remarks
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