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THE 2008 INTERNATIONAL FORUM
DFMA TODAY: LEADING THE WAY TO RESULTS Remember when Western manufacturing markets reeled in the 1980s from the entry of high-quality, competitively priced products from Japan? The United States responded with a new generation of technology in CAD/CAM, automation, and quality control methods. Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) served forward-thinking manufacturers who met the crisis with new automobiles, computers, and medical devices designed with startling economy and innovation. Today, DFMA is still leading the way to results. It structures team knowledge and guides collaboration efforts vital to realizing design excellence; it addresses the core issue of cost-to-manufacture driving current globalization trends; and it sets the stage for large organizational savings in production throughput, factory floor space, ERP, supply-chain management and other “downstream” domains. Last year, speakers at the 2007 DFMA Forum reported millions of dollars in savings and new competitive advantages for their companies. At this year’s Forum, DFMA practitioners and other industry thinkers will share with you their latest results and insights--giving you a foundation for change and long-term success proven in history. Please join us at the twenty-third annual DFMA Forum! TWENTY-THREE YEARS OF DFMA EXPERIENCE The twenty-third annual International Forum on DFMA is the foremost conference worldwide on early design analysis methodologies and implementation. It is the one conference to attend if you wish to gain an understanding of the impact Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA®) has on product development and beyond. Listening first-hand to papers presented by expert practitioners from around the world, you will see close up the successful DFMA strategies employed by many different companies across many different industries. You'll gain insight into the product development approaches followed by some of today's most important manufacturers. Speakers for the 2008 International Forum on DFMA include a number of the world's most advanced manufacturing companies, such as Boeing Company, Harris Corp., Gerber Scientific, Inc. and Motorola, Inc. Conference papers discuss specific product development programs and reveal many details about how these industry leaders achieve cost reductions and efficiency gains with DFMA. Whether your job responsibility is mechanical design, manufacturing engineering, purchasing and supply-chain management, CAD modeling, prototyping and tooling, engineering management, or motivating teams, you will learn valuable strategies for overcoming barriers to technology implementation and solving multidisciplinary design challenges. Among the topics offered are papers on lean engineering and new lean accounting approaches, DFMA and supply-chain negotiation, rapid manufacturing, PLM, and DFMA’s role in reducing downstream operational costs. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? The DFMA Forum is a valuable resource for everyone involved in the design-to-manufacturing process and technology management. • Managers, strategists, and financial decision makers in product development, design, and manufacturing companies of all sizes • Design engineers • Manufacturing engineers • Purchasing personnel • Supply-chain managers CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES The goal of the 2008 International Forum on DFMA is to provide expert opinion on DFMA and inform attendees about new and pertinent trends in product development. Manufacturing leaders and research leaders will be on hand to answer your questions on such topics as
This conference will present you with many examples of how industry leaders use DFMA fundamentals to reach their product development and business goals. Examine the results they report, and judge for yourself how DFMA methodology might serve as a catalyst to innovation in your own organization. CONFERENCE SPECIAL EVENTS Networking Reception Free DFMA Software Demonstration For a complete listing of papers being presented click here. TIME AND PLACE The 2008 International Forum on DFMA will be held June 10-11 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Providence-Warwick, Rhode Island, USA. LODGING Overnight accommodations are the responsibility of the individual. A limited block of rooms is being held until May 17 by the Crowne Plaza Hotel at a reduced rate of $159 per night. Rooms booked after the deadline will not receive the discounted rate. Please let hotel personnel know that you are attending the Boothroyd Dewhurst DFMA Forum using booking code BBD. Call 401-732-6000. You can book your rooms online using the following link to the hotel website, www.crowneplaza.com. TIMETABLE
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Kicking off the 2008 DFMA Forum is a keynote address by Paul Teague on Tuesday, June 10. In a talk titled “Partners in Design: How Purchasing and Engineering Connect for Breakthroughs in Product Development,” he will discuss how manufacturers can achieve success through innovation and early predictive costing instead of price negotiation late in development.. Paul is also editor-in-chief and co-anchor of Purchasing’s weekly internet audiocast on commodities price, The Monday Midday Business Report. A veteran journalist with more than 30 years of experience with industry-leading newspapers and magazines, such as Design News, Paul has covered a broad range of technology and manufacturing trends and has won numerous editorial awards, including a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award, which has been called “the Pulitzer Prize of the business press.”
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