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Background & Purpose

Enhanced safety, faster time-to-money, lower warranty costs, and above all, products that are innovative and outperform financially—all these continue to be CAE's enormous, albeit under-recognized, benefits. Indeed, CAE's impact on product innovation should have made it an essential, mainstream, in-line tool for product design long ago. The old adage that CAE is nice to have, but not really essential, long ago ceased to be true but this myth lives on in the executive suites of too many manufacturing companies, large and small.

CAE, applied early, often and systematically, leads to less design rework and allows designers to explore more innovative alternatives. A CAE-centric design process enables manufacturers to reduce the number of notoriously costly physical prototypes needed before product launch, and in some cases has eliminated them altogether. Digital prototyping contributes to better product quality and consequently builds brand loyalty. And, very significantly, it helps avoid program-killing warranty problems and recalls and reduces their related costs. However, many companies still see CAE as an expensive, nice-to-have-but-not-mainstream luxury, and use it in silos that are apart from the design-engineering mainstream. Not only does this limit the return on a company's CAE investment, but it also prevents the company from realizing many of the key benefits enjoyed by competitors who have cracked the code on CAE usage and implementation. Worse, it makes it much more difficult to justify that next investment in CAE capability, since what's already in-house is delivering such modest results. The sessions and presentations at daratechDPS2005 will identify best practices in CAE utilization and implementation, as well as explore the full extent of how others have benefited by implementing these practices.

At daratechDPS2005, we will focus on the best practices for implementing and integrating CAE into the mainstream of product creation in harmony with your PLM strategy—and the resultant benefits. We will update product development and test, quality and manufacturing engineering executives on how CAE is being deployed and managed in forward-thinking companies to gain critical competitive advantage by reducing reliance on physical test, improving product performance, quality, and safety while reducing warranty risk and costs.

From both management and technical perspectives, not only will you discover today's best practices, but also their accompanying risks and rewards. Presenters are experts from automotive, aerospace, off-highway vehicle, electronics, and other industries, offering a great opportunity to hear what manufacturers in industries other than your own are doing. This will also provide you with an exceptional opportunity to network with non-competing peers.

Past daratechDPS conferences have documented waves of improvements including greater innovation and accelerated product development that CAE has ushered in. However, rapid improvements in software, hardware and the underlying math, as well as changes in the larger environment continue to create new challenges for CAE implementation and optimization. What do the recent mergers and acquisitions in the CAE supplier community, an aging workforce, globalization and similar issues mean to your organization? Discover what's in store for product creation and the evolution to simulation-based design; how PLM suppliers' entry into CAE will drive fundamental change; how the space program addresses critical issues; and what the World Health Organization's entry into the vehicle safety arena means to the automotive, aerospace, and other suppliers—among many other topics. And don't forget: daratechDPS2005 will be a premier opportunity to network with high-level decision makers. Don't miss it.

Who Should Attend

Vice presidents, chief engineers, and directors overseeing product development, product managers, program managers, platform managers, engineering and CAE department heads and managers, technical directors, test-and-measurement and test-and-analysis department heads and managers, managers of crash, durability and NVH, product development managers and engineering process development managers in automotive, off-highway, aerospace, defense, consumer products and industrial equipment manufacturers and their suppliers.

Hear from Industry Leaders

Nan Mattai
Senior Vice President, Engineering and Technology
Rockwell Collins

Thomas P. Gielda, Ph.D.
Global Director of Mechanical Structures and Systems
Whirlpool Corporation

Wu Jieqin
IT Deputy Chief Engineer
First Aircraft Institute

Phil Oh
Chief Application Architect
General Motors Global CAE/CAT Systems

Nand Kochhar
Chief Engineer, Vehicle Attributes & CAE
Ford Motor Company

David Halt
Senior Technical Fellow, Simulation-based Design
Visteon Corp.

Dr. Bruce E. Webster
Simulation-based Design Specialist
Visteon Corp

Thomas J. Lange
Director, Modeling and Simulation, Corporate R&D
Procter & Gamble

Dr. Richard Sun
Senior Manager, Aero/Thermal Center of Competence and Core CFD Group
DaimlerChrysler Corporation

Tony Laituri
Technical Specialist, Biomechanics and Occupant Simulation
Ford Motor Company

Dipankar Ghosh
Chief Engineer, CAE, Truck Development & Technology Center
International Truck & Engine Corporation

Todd Rook
Lead Analytical Development Engineer
Goodrich Aerospace

Bala Holalkere
Director, NVH Design
Arctic Cat, Inc.

Danny Milot
Chief Engineer, Chassis Systems
TRW Automotive

Mark Elwell, Ph.D.
Engineering Manager, Simulation and Development Tools Group, Slip Control Systems
TRW Automotive

Gerould Young
Program Manager, Structural Analysis Tools
The Boeing Co.

Jovan Zagajac, Ph.D.
Technical Expert, Henry Ford Technical Fellow Associate, Virtual Product Analysis & Verification
Ford Motor Company

Kinzy Jones
Principal Staff Scientist
Motorola

Alice Popescu-Gatlan
Project Engineer
Deere & Company

Padma Sundaram
Senior System Safety Engineer
Delphi Corporation

Joseph D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
Manager, Systems & Safety Engineering
Delphi Corporation

Nohoon Ki
Team Leader, Mechanical Systems Simulation
John Deere Product Engineering Center

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Co-Sponsor Presenters

Roger Keene
General Manager, Americas
ABAQUS, Inc.
A Dassault Systemes Company

Michael J. Wheeler
Vice President and General Manager
ANSYS, Inc.

Fabien Chojnowski
Senior Product Manager, Simulation
Manufacturing Solutions Division
Autodesk, Inc.

Dennis A. Nagy
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
CD-adapco

Richard Tickle
Chief Executive Officer
The Flowmaster Group

Greg Hopton
General Manager
LMS North America

John Howaniec
Senior Vice President, Americas Sales Operations
MSC.Software Corporation

Stan Posey
High Performance Computing Business Development Manager
SGI

Richard Bush
Marketing Director, NX Digital Simulation
UGS