Live Web Presentations

Tying Engineering, Suppliers and Operations into one Global Quality System

Recorded Live Webcast

Today’s manufacturing architectures must span an ever-increasing network of in-house and outsourced manufacturing assets that must act in concert. Our brand and company reputation may be at risk if we don’t effectively coordinate and oversee the growing complex partner and supplier network.

We cannot afford to leave quality management as an isolated afterthought anymore; it needs to be an integral part of the strategic enterprise management system.

AMR Research, iBASEt and CSC collaborate on this live event to discuss and share best practices and new initiatives from the Aerospace and Defense industry. The discussions and lessons learned will be applicable to any industry with similar complex products and supplier networks. We will discuss examples of how companies are facing these challenges today and some of the technologies and tools available to help us manage this global task.

The discussion will touch on the following topics:

* Managing risk in the supply chain with enhanced visibility and consistent metrics

* Automating oversight rules based on supplier performance

* Standardizing and expediting workflows for quick response

* Moving from fragmented operations and quality systems to an integrated enterprise approach

* Technical challenges of deploying solutions globally

* Integrating Engineering to Quality Management System for Suppliers and Operations

* Understanding the roles of different systems including PDM and MES in the Quality Management systems landscape

* Ensuring regulatory and intellectual-property protection in global systems including Aerospace and Defense specific ITAR, FAA, and AS9000 considerations

Speakers:

-Simon Jacobson, AMR Research
- Mike Bauer, CSC
- Lise Bosman, CSC
-Michel Gadbois, iBASEt

Moderated by Conrad Leiva, iBASEt

"Are We Ready for The New Manufacturing Workforce?"

Available On-Demand

Just as business is picking up, we are facing an aging workforce and are having trouble recruiting skilled new employees.

• Are we ready for the new workforce?
• Can we improve employee retention?
• Can we reduce learning curves?

Kaba Workforce Solutions and iBASEt join in this panel to discuss how leading manufacturing companies are leveraging new technology in Workforce Management and Manufacturing Execution (MES) to facilitate initiatives to attract, leverage and retain the new workforce.

• The new workforce is computer savvy and are used to fast-paced graphic intensive video game interaction. Are we running the shop with 10-20 year old procedures? Or leveraging the latest media rich and 3D graphical tools?
• The new workforce is also more flexible, mobile and distributed. Are we ready to support a build anywhere paradigm? Are we ready to provide: modern tools, flexible work arrangements (e.g. variant shifts, job sharing), and work-life balance options?
• The new workforce is a mix of senior and junior personnel. How do we leverage our senior expertise? How do we improve on-the-job training? How can we effectively measure productivity to validate our training efforts?

This interactive panel discussion will tackle these questions and share experiences and practices in complex manufacturing, like Aerospace and Defense, where a skilled workforce is critical to corporate success. Register now to participate on this LIVE Webcast!

Executive Briefing: The Path to World Class Manufacturing

Your new products are a revolution in design, performance, and price. Your accelerated engineering program has delivered an enthusiastic market validating your ideas and placing orders for your new products.

1. But how will you build product in the quantities you are projecting?
2. How will you control your manufacturing and quality processes?
3. How will you manage the high level of change management required on new programs?

It would be a disappointment to have come this far and not be able to deliver on time, on your price point, and with the highest quality product.

To meet this manufacturing challenge, your approach to fulfilling orders will need to be as revolutionary as your engineering concepts. It would be frustrating to end up constrained by legacy manufacturing processes consuming valuable resources and expertise. In this critical juncture, when every activity must be value added, all of your talent will need to be focused on building your product, not wrestling around with support systems and non-value added paperwork.

Join us for a 30 min. discussion on how a simple, robust, and proven approach can reduce your risks, improve your manufacturing outcome, and keep you on track to building your products on time and on budget.

Eliminating Paperwork Constraints in Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing

This web presentation introduces discrete manufacturers to paperless Operations Process Management technology. Manufacturers will learn how they can electronically define their critical part attributes both purchased and manufactured, deliver inspection sampling plans to their vendors over the internet and manage the quality trends of each supplier. We will expose Process Engineers to 3rd generation paperless graphical process planning where entire work instructions with data collections can be imbedded directly onto drawings or solid models. Production Control managers will see how they can track each related work order in the chain and see if any job delays are affecting the delivery of the final product.

Quality managers will learn how an integrated paperless environment allows them to see at a glance each defect that has affected a part and what disposition instructions are being used to correct the problem. We will demonstrate how drillable graphics such as Pareto analyses allow managers to find root causes and identify trends in the process. We will explain how corrective action investigations allow a manager to close the loop and feed design and production engineers with solutions to repetitive defects. This functionality overview and demonstration will explain how discrete manufacturers have added millions to their bottom line profits by eliminating waste through this technology and approach. Don't miss it!

Leveraging 3D Models in 3G Process Plans