The New Industrial Revolution - Reshoring and Advanced Manufacturing

Attend an exciting, one-day seminar on the New Industrial Revolution in a highly competitive world. Learn how the Bay Area is responding to global challenges in product development and global supply strategies, reshoring, advanced manufacturing and developing a trained workforce.
Topics
Product Development and Global Supply Chain Dynamics
Reshoring/Onshoring Reality
Advanced Manufacturing Technologies including hands-on 3D printer demo
Workforce Development to Meet Today's Job Requirements
This conference… Show more is held in conjunction with the Design-2-Part Show www.d2p.com and in collaboration with local organizations including Asme-SVCS, Ieee-CPMT, Asq Biomedical Division, SJSU Bmes, Laney College, San Jose State University, and DeAnza College. Sponsorships are available. For more information or if you have registration issues, please contact the Conference Chair, Joanne Moody at sme098@gmail.com.
Who should attend?
Product development, design, quality, supply chain, purchasing, and manufacturing engineers/managers, as well as support personnel.
Students, public, and professionals interested in advancing their knowledge of Bay Area manufacturing and networking.
********** Schedule
7:30 am Registration 8:00 - 8:15 am - Conference Overview & Raffle/Drawing #1
Cynthia Cook - Sme Chair 2013, Silicon Valley Chapter 98
Gerard Bessette - Master of Ceremonies
8:15 - 8:45 am - Manufacturing Trends in the Northern Ca Learn about current manufacturing trends, local industries, manufacturing jobs, and government incentives to create opportunities and growth.
Bill Browne - Director, Client Services, Manex Consulting
8:45 - 9:00 am - The New Industrial Revolution The internet, computer design tools, crowd funding, and the Maker’s movement are creating a new industrial revolution.
Joanne Moody - President, Zeta Scientific LLC, Sme Conference Chair
9:00 - 10:00 am - Reshoring/Onshoring Reality - Panel Discussion For the past several decades, Us companies have been moving manufacturing operations "offshore" to save labor costs. However, with transportation costs, rising Chinese labor costs, quality issues, and simply the issue of keeping jobs in the Us, there are companies trying to reshore part, or all, of their manufacturing in the Us. We will be hearing about the challenges and the reality of reshoring. Learn about the success stories.
Michele Nash-Hoff - President, Founder, ElectroFab Sales, Panel Leader
Gus Castello - Sr. VP, Product Operations, Intuitive Surgical
Brian Holmes - VP & General Manager, Columbia Plastics
Stan Sutton - President & CEO, Inland Metal Industries
10:00 - 10:15 am - Raffle/Drawing #2 & Break 10:15 - 11:15 am - Product Development and Global Supply Chain Dynamics
Deciding where to produce products is an essential part of the product development cycle. The concept and use of the global supply chain is critical in successfully competing in today's world. Learn how the supply chain decision can make or break your new product.
Michael Keer - Founder & CEO, Product Realization Group, Panel Leader
Sandeep Duggal - CEO, Extron
Leland Witherspoon - Coo/SVP, Faxitron X-Ray Corporation
Rob McCarthy - Director of Operations, Conceptus, Inc.
Wayne Firsty - VP Engineering & Product Realization, Creation Technologies
11:15 - 11:30 am - "The New Industrial Revolution and China’s Dilemma" Technology has political consequences. Low-cost, highly dispersed computing created an impossible dilemma for the Soviet Union's rulers, who feared its potential to transmit competing ideas, but were doomed to fall far behind if they didn't encourage wide adoption. In a similar vein, low-cost, highly dispersed manufacturing technologies are more than just a challenge to the "Made in China, shipped globally" industrial model.
Joe Katzman - Product Manager & Editor - Defense Daily, Speaker
11:30 am - 1:30 pm - Raffle/Drawing #3 & Lunch break (lunch not provided)
Break to Tour Design-2-Part Show
Preeya Singh - Hands-on 3D Printing Demo, Studio Fathom
1:30 - 2:00 pm - Ramping Up Cross-Disciplinary Technologies: Lessons Learned When new technologies are developed by combining concepts and methods from different fields, unique challenges can arise as pilot production lines are established as well as during high-volume scale up. This presentation will highlight lessons learned on how to identify and overcome such challenges.
Brian Sager - Founder, NanoSolar, Keynote Speaker
2:00 - 3:00 pm - Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Manufacturing shows increase use of additive and digital manufacturing techniques, prototyping, robotics, lasers, nanotechnology, etc. Computer and software technology is radically changing how we manufacture. Us made goods have advantages for small volume, highly regulated, complex products such as medical devices. Learn more from companies about the latest trends in advanced manufacturing methods.
Mark Brinkerhoff - President, Fusion Design, Panel leader
Mike Prindiville - Sr. Director, Manufacturing Engineering, Intuitive Surgical
Simon L. Engel - President, Hde Technologies, Inc. (Lasers)
Chuck Alexander - Product Manager Additive Manufacturing, Solid Concepts Inc.
Kevin Andersen - President, Owner, Npi Solutions Inc.
Nathaniel Arnaldo - Business Development Manager, Arrk Product Development Group
3:00 - 3:30 pm Raffle/Drawing #4, Break and Networking
Preeya Singh - Hands-on 3D Printing Demo, Studio Fathom
3:30 - 4:45 pm Workforce Development to Meet Today’s Job Requirements To meet manufacturing challenges in advanced technologies, a trained local workforce is a top priority. This workforce includes skilled trades (such as machining, welding, process technicians, industrial maintenance, etc.), engineers, and others. In the Bay Area, we have several educational programs geared for retooling and retraining our work force. Information about various training programs will be provided to learn new skills, providing a platform for new job growth, which goes hand-in-hand with a skilled workforce.
Mark Martin - Laney College, Director, Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Development, panel leader.
Naima Azgui - Professor - Advanced Medical Manufacturing Technologies, Laney College
Birch Early - Business Services Representative, Alameda County Workforce Investment Board
Seth Bates - Professor, Chair, Department Aviation & Aviation Technology San Jose State University
Mike Appio - Department Head, Manufacturing & CNC Technology program, DeAnza College
Guna Selvaduray - Professor, Materials Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Coordinator, San Jose State University
4:45 - 5:00 pm Raffle/Drawing #4, Closing & Thanks to Our Sponsors
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Logistics
No charge for parking.
For lodging, contact our the Design-2-Part travel coordinator Herma Levine at 800-251-5282. For lunch (not provided by the conference), there will be concessions on the floor in addition to the attached hotel restaurants.
Consider joining Sme today and enjoy benefits and discounts to events and tours. See the special membership plus discount offer.
If you are a non-member but full time student - email us for the full time Student discount code and save.
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