WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
MAKING PROFITABILITY & SUSTAINABILITY A REALITY FOR A BETTER WORLD
Learn how 米6体育’s customers are using manufacturing insights technology to improve profitability, deliver innovative new products to market as efficiently as possible, and calculate and reduce carbon emissions from their manufacturing operations. Hear from global manufacturing powerhouses like Scania, Spirit AeroSystems, Carrier, Signify, and more. The event is designed to meet the specific needs of designers and engineers, cost engineers, sourcing specialists, and manufacturers who are struggling with inflation, accelerating cash flow, and managing new sustainability regulations.
Registration includes all access to an immersive, 2-day Manufacturing Insights experience.
Designing for Manufacturability
Product Sustainability
Supply Chain Collaboration
Case Study & Keynote Announcements
Our Journey to Sustainable Manufacturing
Scania’s purpose is to drive the shift towards a sustainable transport system, creating a world of mobility that is better for business, society and the environment. During this exciting case study, Scania will share the advantages of running CO 2 calculations in 米6体育.
How Digitalization Helps Woodward Address the Labor Shortage
Woodward designs and manufactures energy control and optimization solutions for aerospace and industrial markets. Learn how they are tackling the labor shortage problem in manufacturing with 米6体育's digital factories and self-quoting options to move thousands of parts at nearly a 90% velocity improvement.
Strategies for Overcoming Challenges with Today's Supply Chains
米6体育 President & CEO, Stephanie Feraday, will be joined by Rob Lidster, former CPO at General Electric Appliances, for this timely conversation on the main stage.
TICKET PRICES
$595
Early Bird Discount
Early bird discount expires Sep 15, 2022
$695
米6体育 Customers
Regular Conference Price For 米6体育 Customers
$795
General Public
Regular Conference Price For Non 米6体育 Customers
LOCATION
Boston Marriott Long Wharf
296 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts, USA 02109
+1 617-227-0800
2022 CONFERENCE AGENDA
8:30AM - 12:00PM
Intro to Cost Insight Design
During this introductory course focused on the design engineer, students will see and then perform labs on core 米6体育 concepts, loading and costing parts, assemblies, and collaboration to become proficient in the core abilities, capabilities, and user interface of Cost Insight Design. This course is an additional fee and is not included in the conference registration.
Beacon Faneuil
1:00PM - 5:00PM
Design for Manufacturability and Cost in aP Profesional
During this course, participants will learn the fundamental principles behind Design for Manufacturability and Cost (DFMC) and the recommended workflows for various process groups. This course is an additional fee and is not included in the conference registration.
Beacon Faneuil
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Welcome Cocktail Reception & Registration
Harbor View Ballroom
7:30am - 8:30am
Coffee & Breakfast
Palm Garden
8:30am - 8:45am
Kickoff Address & Agenda Review
Philippe Adam, 米6体育 Chief Marketing Officer
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Salons A-L
8:45am - 9:15am
Making Profitability & Sustainability a Reality for a Better World
Is it possible to implement a strategy for Sustainable Manufacturing and still deliver profitable products to market? 米6体育 lets you optimize both at the same time. Learn more in this presentation from 米6体育's President and CEO.
Stephanie Feraday, 米6体育 President & CEO
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Salons A-L
9:20am - 9:45am
Case Study: Business Transformation through 米6体育
米6体育 offers many different software solutions to address key business challenges; however, there are not many companies that know how to pull them all together to gain maximum efficiency. Through this presentation we will touch on each and how Carrier has digitized the cost engineering process and will continue to maximize the effectiveness of 米6体育 across business units.
Tristan Abend, Carrier Corporation, Manager, Value Engineering
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Salons A-L
9:50am - 10:30am
Panel Discussion: Strategies for Overcoming Challenges with Today's Supply Chains
Join us for a moderated panel discussion and learn about new strategies to address lingering supply chain issues.
Rob Lidster, former CPO, GE Appliances; moderator will be 米6体育 President and CEO, Stephanie Feraday
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Salons A-L
10:30am - 11:15am
Morning Coffee & Networking Break w/ Technology Showcase
For those of you that love new technology, enjoy a cup of coffee, network with your peers and watch product demos of 米6体育's latest and greatest technology innovations.
Ballroom Lobby
11:15am - 11:45am
Accelerate Time to Market with Better Team Collaboration
This group presentation will focus on how to improve productivity and get your optimized products to market faster when your entire product team works together on a single cloud-based platform.
Team 米6体育, including: James Ferguson, Cormac Eastwood, Barton Phinney, Gibson Peters, and Chris Jeznach
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Salons A-L
11:50am - 12:15pm
Case Study: How Digitalization Helps Us Address the Labor Shortage
The US Machining Labor market is tightening due to labor availability. 75% of machinists in the US are over 45 years of age, and there is no easy solution to mitigate this challenge (Gartner). Woodward is working on this challenge in several ways. Join this presentation to learn how.
Chris Platz, Woodward, Global Commodity/Category Manager
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Salons A-L
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Lunch Break
Palm Garden
5 Tracks
Scroll to the right for additional tracks
Designing for
Manufacturability
Product designers and engineers will learn how to identify and eliminate design issues that could inflate manufacturing cost and slow time to product launch.
Design Engineering Tips for Reducing Manufacturing Costs on New Product Designs
A focused session keying in on DFM, minimizing setup costs, material selection, tolerances, material finishes, minimize waste, make vs buy, etc and how 米6体育 helps
Alison Leedham, 米6体育
Salons HI
Comparing Design-to-Cost and Design-to-Value
What are the differences and how 米6体育 can help you with either and maintain profitability.
Matthew Hinshaw, 米6体育
Salons HI
Afternoon Coffee Break/Technology Showcase
aP Pro Tips and Tricks - How to be More Productive on a Day to Day Basis, Learn from the aP Pros
A selection of the 米6体育 application engineers favorite time saving tips and productivity tricks to make you more productive.
Erik Osvold
Salons HI
Best Practices for Holistic Design
By thinking more holistically about the impact of product design and working with rest of the business, it can largely avoid unwanted, “surprise” costs.
Samuel Ellis
Salons HI
Product Sustainability
One of the hottest trends in product manufacturing today is the drive to build more sustainable products. Learn how 米6体育 digital factories can help your team calculate the CO2 emissions generated by the manufacturing process for your products.
Design for Sustainability - How to Design Products with Lower Environmental Impact
Learn how 米6体育's emerging Product Sustainability solution can help you move from Sustainability "Intent" to Sustainability "Action".
Mark Rushton, 米6体育
Salons JK
Does Sustainable Design Have to be More Expensive?
How Can Sustainable Design Improve Profitability?
In this session, we will show how you can still design high performance products without increasing your costs by also making these products more sustainable.
Gibson Peters
Salons JK
Afternoon Coffee Break/Technology Showcase
Partnering for Sustainability
Join this panel discussion to hear how 米6体育 has been working with customers to advance our Sustainability solution that tracks CO2e emissions from product manufacturing.
Chris Jeznach, 米6体育
Salons J-K
Partnering for Sustainability (continued)
Carsten Hochmuth, 米6体育
Salon J-K
Supply Chain Collaboration
This track is for those in sourcing or cost estimators in the supply chain who want to learn how 米6体育 can facilitate a more lean, strategic relationship.
How to Mitigate Risk in a Changing Market Environment
With inflation, labor shortage, geopolitical disruption and more, how can you mitigate risk and utilize your cash flow smarter. In this session we will identify the different insights and strategies that will improve your supply chain resiliency.
Abe Chaves, 米6体育
Quincy Haymarket
Sourcing Trust and Transparency through Shared Manufacturing Insights
米6体育 will be rolling out a new collaboration capability called aP Workspace. Learn more about how this new solution can help product teams work more effectively and accelerate new innovations to market faster.
Barton Phinney
Quincy Haymarket
Afternoon Coffee Break/Technology Showcase
A Guide to Building Better Relationships Using Digital Factories
How to enable more efficient, fact-based conversations with your suppliers.
Ishan Bhide, 米6体育
Quincy Haymarket
The Road to Zero RFQ
How to significantly improve your sourcing process by implementing quoteless sourcing strategies.
Tyler Kopydlowski
Quincy Haymarket
Experts Only
This is an advanced track for 米6体育 customers who have been using the product for a number of years and want to discuss more complex topics.
Managing Materials and Machines (Advanced)
How To: Use aP material scaling factors (with example and questions), strategies to manage digital factories and best practices from 米6体育 Expert Services
Emily Davis
Beacon Faneuil
Utilizing aP Analytics to Get the Most out of Your 米6体育 Deployment
David McDermaid, 米6体育
Beacon Faneuil
Afternoon Coffee Break/Technology Showcase
Common Configurations to Increase Efficiency of Costing in 米6体育
Matthew Roy, 米6体育
Beacon Faneuil
How to use CAD Attribute mapping - highlighting use with plugins
Daniel Patterson
Beacon Faneuil
Executives (by invitation only)
This track is designed for Senior Business Executives and is by invitation only. The format of all 3 topics below will be moderated roundtable discussion.
Turning Inflation Disruptions into Competitive Differentiators
Discuss how automating manufacturing simulation can unlock significant product cost improvements. Also, discuss how supply chain disruption can be a catalyst to develop shorter supply chains with stronger climate credentials.
Moderators: Bernard Hensey, Former VP Commercial Business at Boeing Global Services; Adam Robbins, Principal Director, Accenture; Philippe Adam, Chief Marketing Officer, 米6体育
Harbor View Ballroom
Design for X (DfX): A Game Changer for Manufacturers
Designing/redesigning critical products - the starting point to optimize product cost and develop a resilient supply chain. Along with that, DfX represents a unique opportunity for sourcing/cost engineering teams to create value beyond just cutting costs.
Moderators: Hank Marcy, Former VP Product Development, Johnson Controls/Hitachi; Vijay Natarajan, Partner, Deloitte
Harbor View Ballroom
Afternoon Coffee Break/Technology Showcase
When Sustainability Accelerates Innovation and Drives Growth
Discuss how to go from Digital Thread to Green Digital Thread: Adding sustainability impact to your Digital Twin, Digital Factories, and Digital Manufacturing processes to make Profitability and Sustainability a reality.
Moderators: Dominik Leisinger, Partner & Europe Lead Product Excellence(PERLab) at Kearney; Fadri Casty, Chief Commercial Officer, ecoinvent
Harbor View Ballroom
4:45pm - 5:15pm
Caresoft Case Study: Using Benchmarking to Gain a Competitive Edge
In today’s competitive market, any minor competitive edge is a major advantage. Caresoft’s technology and expertise for Benchmarking and Cost Reduction Interventions can be that competitive edge. See how Caresoft applies their award-winning benchmarking method to drive actionable results. Their unique DeltaCosting™ methodology and framework, utilizing 米6体育 where applicable, is transforming competitive benchmarking from weight-driven to cost-driven analytics to provide Competitive Intelligence on Design Fitness.
Arjun Nagendra, VP of Global Operations with Manojdeep Jasrotia, Director, Industrial and Manufacturing Services
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Salons A-L
5:15pm - 6:00pm
Break for eMail/VMail
TBD
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Executive/VIP Event
By invitation only
City Winery, North End, Boston
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Customer Appreciation Dinner
All conference attendees are invited to join us at Boston's historic Fenway Park for a fun night of backstage tours, a top-shelf dinner experience and a few other surprises along the way.
Fenway Park
7:30am - 8:30am
Coffee & Breakfast
Palm Garden
8:30am - 8:45am
Welcome & Agenda Review
Ranae Mogensen, 米6体育 Director, Marketing Communications & Public Relations
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Salons A-L
8:45am - 9:45am
米6体育 Product Roadmap Presentation
Join our Product Management team to learn about our future product vision and plans for the next few years. This is always one of the top sessions of our conference every year. Don't miss it!
Fielder Hiss, 米6体育 Chief Product Officer & Members of the Product Management Team
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Salons A-L
9:45am - 10:00am
米6体育 User Council Update
Hear from the leaders of the 米6体育 User Council why you should consider joining this group. The 米6体育 User Council helps us understand evolving market needs for our products.
Tristan Abend, Carrier and John Allen, Benchmark
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Salons A-L
10:00am - 10:30am
Morning Coffee Break & 米6体育 Inspiration Room
The 米6体育 Inspiration Room is a new concept this year. Meet 米6体育 Product Managers one on one to discuss your ideas for how we can improve our product. Product Managers will vote on the best product enhancement, and a prize will be awarded to the winner during the conference conclusion presentation. Stay tuned for more information!
Salons A-L
10:30am - 11:15am
Scania Case Study: Our Journey to Sustainable Manufacturing
This session will start off with a special introduction from Bernard Swiecki of the Center for Automotive Research. He will share some interesting data around the accelerating evolution of Electric Vehicles in the market. This introduction will be followed by a case study of how Scania has been able to add CO2e calculation as a product target in development process. Attendees last year may remember this presentation. This year we will reveal how the implementation has been refined and grown over the past year.
Center for Automotive Research, Bernard Swiecki and Director, Research Scania, Daniel Rosner, Technical Manager
|11:15am - 12:00
Case Study: Should Cost X 8
In this motivating case study, 米6体育 customer Signify will discuss the significant cost savings they have been able to realize using 米6体育 for Should Costing analysis.
Signify, Arnold Chatelain & Robert Ottens
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Salons A-L
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch Break
Salons A-L
Commodity Analysis
Case Studies
Plastic Molding
Leverage the tips & techniques from our product experts to drive more value from the Plastics Molding manufacturing process model.
Andy Clarke
Beacon Faneuil
Compression Molding (of Sheet Molding Compound)
Check out this new manufacturing process model.
Andy Clarke, 米6体育
Beacon Faneuil
Sheet Metal Roll Forming
Here's another new manufacturing process model. Join this session to learn more.
Jimi Diedesch, 米6体育
Harborview
Assemblies & Welding
Major upgrades to both these process models was introduced in the most recent product release. Join this session to learn more.
Mark Gormley, 米6体育
Harborview
PCB & PCBA
Get an overview of the PCB & PCBA cost model with a focus on how to analyze the 米6体育 cost estimates as well as tips for costing PCBAs
Lily Thomas, 米6体育
Quincy Haymarket
Additive Manufacturing
Is additive manufacturing right for you? Learn how 米6体育 can help you identify the break even point for additive vs subtractive manufacturing.
TBD
Quincy Haymarket
Spirit Aerosystems
Salons A-L
Kone
Salons A-L
2:30pm - 2:45pm
Conference Wrap-Up
Salons A-L