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The 2001 International Forum On Design For Manufacture and Assembly

The document provides the program for the 2001 International Forum on Design for Manufacture and Assembly held from June 4-6, 2001 in Newport, Rhode Island. The program included sessions on DFMA industry implementations, DFM implementations, lean design processes, product design developments, cost and reliability considerations, panel discussions on early cost estimating, DFA applications, and DFMA developments. Speakers presented on topics like the use of innovative tools in design, applying DFMA techniques to automotive components, product portfolio architecting, assembly reliability evaluation, and using digital photography to promote DFMA ideas.
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The 2001 International Forum On Design For Manufacture and Assembly

The document provides the program for the 2001 International Forum on Design for Manufacture and Assembly held from June 4-6, 2001 in Newport, Rhode Island. The program included sessions on DFMA industry implementations, DFM implementations, lean design processes, product design developments, cost and reliability considerations, panel discussions on early cost estimating, DFA applications, and DFMA developments. Speakers presented on topics like the use of innovative tools in design, applying DFMA techniques to automotive components, product portfolio architecting, assembly reliability evaluation, and using digital photography to promote DFMA ideas.
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The 2001 International Forum on

Design for Manufacture and Assembly


June 4 - 5, 2001 - Newport, Rhode Island

PROGRAM
Sunday, June 3

6:00-9:00 p.m. Registration - Main Lobby of Hyatt Regency Newport Hotel

7:00-8:00 p.m. Introductory Presentation - Winston Knight

7:00-9:00 p.m. Informal Social (cash bar & hors d'oeuvres)

Monday, June 4

7:45 a.m. Late Registration and Continental Breakfast

Session I DFMA Industry Implementations


(Chairman - Geoffrey Boothroyd, BDI)

8:30 a.m. Getting Faster Through the Early Use of Innovative Tools – Goran
Marunic and Zbig Wroniewicz, MDS SCIEX

DFMA for Early Concept Development of Automotive Seats - Randall E.


Szalma, Magna Seating Systems

The Application of DFMA Techniques to the Next Generation of


Automotive Door System Designs - Brian H. Staser, Delphi Automotive
Systems

10:00 a.m. Break

Session II DFM Implementations


(Chairman – Robert Williams, Hewlett-Packard)

10:30 a.m. The Role of Cost Managment in New Product Development - A Pragmatic
approach – Dantar Oosterwal and Dan O'Callaghan, Harley-Davidson
Motor Company

DFM Experiences and Strategies for Implementation, Kenneth G. Swift


and Nathaniel J. Brown, University of Hull

DFx at work in NOKIA Networks – Malcolm Perry, Nokia Networks

12:00 Noon Lunch


Session III Lean Design Processes
(Chairman – Gordon Lewis, DaTuM 3D)

1:00 p.m. Lean Design Process – Itzhak Ben-Levy, Israel Aircraft Industries

Implementing Lean Manufacturing and Lean Design (DFMA) via the


Raytheon 6 Sigma Process – Paul Zimmermann, Raytheon Systems
Company

Measuring R&D Portfolio Success: Best Practices - Bradford L. Goldense,


Goldense Group, Inc.

2:30 p.m. Break

Session IV Product Design Developments


(Chairman - Nicholas Dewhurst, BDI)

3:00 p.m. Product Portfolio Architecting – Kevin Otto, Massachusetts Institute of


Technology

Product Design Process Metrics Behaviour, a Study of DFA Metrics –


Roope Takala, MIT/CIPD

4:00 p.m. Adjourn

6:00 p.m. Dinner Cruise


Tuesday, June 5

7:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast - Conference Center Lobby

Session V Cost and Reliability Considerations


(Chairman – Mark Curtis, Design IV)

8:30 a.m. The use of Knowledge based tools for Managing Produc Cost - A Case
Study – Dantar Oosterwal and Dan O'Callaghan, Harley-Davidson Motor
Company

Assembly Reliability Evaluation Method Shop Evaluation System –


Toshijiro Ohashi, Hitachi, Ltd.

Factors Influencing the Cost of Regular Deep Drawn Parts – Brian Fogg,
Manchester Metropolitan University

10:00 a.m. Break

Session VI Panel Discussion on Early Cost Estimating at the Design Stage


(Chairman - Winston Knight, BDI)

10:30 a.m. Panelists Dantar Oosterwal, Harley-Davidson Motor Company


Ken Swift, University of Hull
Robert Williams, Hewlett Packard
Paul Zimmermann, Raytheon

12:00 Noon Lunch

Session VII DFA Applications


(Chairman - Jon Freckleton, RIT)

1:00 p.m. Evaluation of assembly sequence within the DFA - Luiz AlbertoGentil
Mendes, Embraer

Learning from Your Competitors - The ABC’s of Product Benchmarking


– David Meeker and F James McWilliams, Compaq Computer

Proactive DFA and the Designers' Sandpit – Nathan Brown, Ken Swift,
Graham Jared, Peter Robinson, Susan Tate and Simon Grabowski,
University of Hull

2:30 p.m. Break


Session VIII DFMA Developments
(Chairman – John Gilligan, BDI)

3:00 p.m. An approach for Size Reduction Assessment in Product Development:


Design for Size Reduction (DFSz) – Osvaldo Aronica,Gualtiero Fantoni,
and Francesco Vezzi, ENEA

Using Digital Photography To Help Promote Your DFMA Ideas - Richard


J. Petendree, Pitney Bowes - DFS Business Unit

4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks – John Gilligan

Wednesday, June 6

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Software Demonstrations (open to all)

12:00 Noon Lunch

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