4th European PLM Summit 2008

23rd - 25th June 2008
Toulouse, France

Powering innovation throughout the product lifecycle.

day one | day two

Day One24 June 2008
08:00
Registration and refreshments
08:50
Chairperson’s welcome and opening remarks

Professor Darek Ceglarek, Director, Digital Product Life, Warwick Manufacturing Group UK
09:00
Opening keynote address
Delivering strategic value across the enterprise with PLM
  • Creating a strategic vision: seeing PLM as a business approach
  • Key strategic drivers in PLM
  • Maximising ROI from your investment

Michael Burkett, Vice President, AMR Research USA
09:35
Conference room 1
Phase one: Defining and developing PLM
Taking steps towards a successful PLM adoption at Delta Galil
  • Laying out you roadmap for roll-out
  • Using your application to ensure end-to-end visbility in the design and development cycle
  • Cutting lead time through collaboration: all-accessible data

Avi Pinhas, Chief Information Officer, Delta Galil Israel
 
Conference room 2
Phase two: The PLM deployment roadmap
Executing PLM effectively in a complex environment: A Thales Alenia Space case study
  • Ensuring a 15% reduction on deployment costs and time
  • Developing a high-end PLM system, managing not only files but also the work processes of contributors
  • Developing visibility to ensure respect for, and adherence to, industry standards

Frederic Serrat , Project Manager, PLM Deploymen, Thales Alenia Space France
 
Conference room 3
Phase three: Advanced PLM - the integration imperative
Integrating PLM with your existing MES system: linking PLM with physical production
  • Integration to ensure higher product quality
  • Shortening product lifecycles with enhanced communication and collaboration
  • Establishing the capacity to collect and re-use all data connected to the workshop floor

Dick Slansky, PLM Research Director, Arc Advisory Group USA
 
10:10
Morning coffee
10:40
Conference room 1
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Integrating PLM and MES: Linking product design to manufacturing
  • Integrating the digital factory and plant operations for a virtual design and production environment
  • Accelerating time to production through concurrent and bi-directional exchange of data
  • Reducing risk and costs of design and production through accurate, real-time simulation models
 
Conference room 2
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
The integrated, collaborative and extended enterprise : win in the flat world
 
Conference room 3
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Led by Airbus CIMPA
 
11:30
Driving harmonisation and innovation across the global extended enterprise
  • PHENIX - PLM Harmonisation for ENhanced Integration and eXcellence
  • Taking a global approach and creating a common IT infrastructure group-wide
  • Harmonisation through cost reduction, agility and operating as a worldwide extended enterprise

Dr Amaury Soubeyran, Deputy Head, PHENIX Programme, EADS France
12:05
Networking luncheon
13:30
Conference room 1
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Leveraging the human factor to engage the development team
  • Get the commitment of real people in a virtual environment
  • How lean principles compliment software tools in value creation
  • Design for assembly integrating ergonomic criteria

Mario Galassini, Managing Director, Solving Efeso Italy
 
Conference room 2
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Microsoft and HP´s role in PLM
  • Integrated, enterprise wide PLM across Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing and Logistics
  • The FIAT IVECO Product Representation Program
  • A focus on technology and results

Günter Rester, Director, Manufacturing Indust, Microsoft Germany

Danilo Naretti, IT Programme Manager, Iveco Engineering
 
Conference room 3
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Led by Vistagy
 
14:20
Best practice case study: Reducing product development time at Timberland
  • Cutting the product development lifecycle to critically reduce time-to-market
  • Utilising an array of integrated tools to achieve cycle reductions

Noel Rix, VP, Product Development, The Timberland Company USA
14:55
Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings
Meet with fellow delegates and solution providers to discuss the key issues in PLM today
17:55
Closing keynote address:
Virtual Collaboration Rooms: creating singularity of data
  • Globalisation driving the need for collaboration
  • Creating a window into a virtual design environment
  • The Virtual Collaboration Room: maximising communication and speeding up product development

Dr Michael Grieves, Author and International PLM E, USA
18:30
Chairperson's closing remarks, followed by networking drinks reception

day one | day two

Day Two25 June 2008
08:30
Re-registration and refreshments
09:00
Chairperson’s opening remarks and re-cap of Day One

Professor Darek Ceglarek, Director, Digital Product Life, Warwick Manufacturing Group UK
09:10
Opening keynote address:
What next? Taking PLM into new realms
  • The current context: Using PLM as a strategy to improve business decision-making capacity
  • How do we take an existing PLM implementation further into the enterprise?
  • Penetrating new areas with PLM: moving into sales and marketing

Pierfrancesco Manenti, Research Director, EMEA, Manufacturing Insights Italy
09:45
Conference room 1
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Led by Linx A/S
 
Conference room 2
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Led by BT
 
Conference room 3
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Led by Dassault Systèmes
 
10:35
Morning Coffee
11:15
Special panel discussion:
Driving ahead with a roadmap for PLM integration
11:50
Automotive
PLM: Enhancing change management, collaboration and unleashing the value of engineering knowledge throughout the extended enterprise
  • Collaboration and communication as a key imperative in linking together different business divisions
  • Enhancing change management
  • Challenges of PLM rollout in the global enterprise

Mahmoud Mansour, Head of PLM, Lear Corp UK
 
Healthcare
PLM: a process-orientated tool
  • Developing new frameworks for regulatory response
  • Recognising problems early in the process to ensure product quality
  • PLM and ERP: linking PLM with other platforms to maximise visibility and collaboration

Claes-Göran Andersson, System Owner PLM, Mölnlycke Healthcare Sweden
 
Apparel
Human capital: the cultural dynamic
  • Devising a change management framework
  • Delivering the PLM message to the workforce
  • How can we overcome the workforce challenge?

Michael Flynn, Director, Category Product Cre, Nike, Inc USA
 
12:25
Themed Luncheon Discussion
14:00
Aerospace
Through-life PLM: Towards maintenance and support of products
  • A different approach: managing product configuration from design to disposal
  • Removing the risk of product obsolescence
  • Improving responsiveness to customer requirements

Graham Malley, PLM Programme Manager, BAE Systems UK
 
FMCG/CPG
Going digital: Maximising productivity through digital prototyping
  • Moving product to market faster without undue costs of physical prototypes
  • Answering questions on products before being built
  • Fewer physical prototypes = more innovation
 
Food and beverage
Scaling international sourcing and supplier management
  • Managing supplier relations on private label merchandise
  • Creating a collaborative platform for international sourcing operations
 
14:35
Transcending borders with real-time visibility
  • Ensuring simultaneous accessibility to product data flows
  • Centralising information for real-time visibility
15:10
Special closing discussion: review of key lessons
Piecing together the PLM puzzle

Michael Burkett, Vice President, AMR Research USA
15:30
Chairperson’s closing remarks, and close of summit

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