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June 20 - 21, 2002 - The Hilton Novi, Novi (Detroit) Michigan |
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Background & Purpose Accelerating time-to-market with fresher designs while maintaining and enhancing safety, durability and quality is a top priority for all manufacturers. Consequently, building and testing physical prototypes—expensive, time-consuming bottlenecks in the creation of new manufactured products—are receiving increased attention from top-level management. Replacing more and more physical prototyping and testing with digital methods, and better coordinating physical test and measurement with digital modeling and simulation, is seen as an approach that can save millions in development costs while slashing months off product development schedules. daratechiDPS2002—Intelligent Digital Prototyping Strategies is a high-level, definitive conference focused on reducing time-to-market, reducing cost and improving quality through strategic application of digital prototyping technologies. A unique forum in which real-world cases—successes and failures—are presented and discussed from a business-value perspective, daratechiDPS2002 will bring together those responsible for digital prototyping and simulation strategies as well as physical test and measurement managers from the world's leading automotive, aerospace, industrial equipment and consumer products manufacturers to explore ways in which to:
Auto makers squeezed by recession and zero-percent financing are nonetheless stepping up their investments in digital prototyping and simulation. At the same time, CAE software providers are enjoying robust growth in a virtually flat year for CAD/CAM, and are now engaged in a merger-and-acquisition race for industry dominance. What's driving this surge of activity, and will all this investment lead to higher quality, more productive solutions? Moreover, what can manufacturers working to realize digital prototyping's full potential do to overcome the daunting business, organizational and technological challenges involved? Many are finding the greatest obstacles are not technological but managerial, cultural and psychological-preconceived notions, organizational inertia, internal politics, budgets. How can the new technologies and methods be cost-justified when payback may not come until three years or more into a program? What are the organizational challenges of better interfacing digital prototyping departments and physical test organizations? Likewise, how can analysis and product design be brought closer together? Are there processes and tools to coordinate and manage the data and workflows that result from integrated design and analysis? How best to deploy and manage digital prototyping across globally dispersed enterprises and supply chains? Above all, how should digital prototyping and simulation be deployed throughout product development to ensure it will have the greatest possible impact on cost, schedule and quality? daratechiDPS2002 will help you through this maze. The management sessions, technical sessions, breakouts, roundtable workshops and corridor conversations will put philosophies, technologies and case studies under a microscope and treat everything with a healthy skepticism. dratechiDPS2002 offers a balance of business strategy and technology assessment you won't find at user-group meetings or association conferences, all in a vendor-neutral setting tailored for senior practitioners and decision-makers. In addition, the networking at this conference is invaluable—you'll meet and share lessons of experience with the right people from across manufacturing industry. This time-efficient conference is also the place to meet the CEOs, CTOs and other top executives and technologists of the world's leading digital prototyping solution providers. The highly interactive program is specifically designed to give individuals ample opportunity to meet informally one-on-one, or in the context of the many topical roundtable workshops. If you plan to attend just one industry event in the next 12 months, make it daratechiDPS2002. In the management sessions, technical sessions, breakouts, roundtable workshops and corridor conversations you'll discover what works and what doesn't, what the risks are, and user strategies for success. Attendees will leave this conference energized with new strategies and action plans that can be put into practice right away. Of course, daratechiDPS2002's Co-Sponsors—the world's leading providers of digital prototyping solutions—will be on hand, most represented by their CEOs and CTOs, to conduct breakout sessions, showcase new solutions, and share their vision and strategies. Featured will be presentations of technical philosophy and direction, live demonstrations, and an opportunity to meet and chat with the CEOs and CTOs of the world's leading developers. [ top ] |
Speakers, Panelists & Roundtable Leaders Ned McClurg Anton Cremers Toshikazu Kishimoto Dr. Priya Prasad Dr. Jack E. Thompson Dr. Nabil Saad Lyn Hollis Craig Stenstrom Eugene Greenstein Michael L. Dinsmore Peter Gladysz Dr. Bijan Khatib-Shahidi John Givens John C. DeSantis Lory Arghavan Les Grundman Dr. Tim Hunter Tom Hendricks Chuan Lee Dr. Ren-Jye Yang Dr. Todd Rook Curtis R. Niemeier Dr. Ayad Nayef Gregory Gessel Rich Wells Mike Racicot Gregory M. Goetchius Mark Zebrowski Dr. Joseph Solecki Dr. Che-wei Chang Dr. Vincent Chaillou Dr. Bjørn Haugen Dr. Bruce Engelmann Dr. Claude W. Richards Dr. Jan Leuridan Dr. Reza Sadeghi Dr. Christos Katsis Dr. Michael Hoffmann Jeremy Holt Dr. Dennis Nagy Dr. Andreas Vlahinos Dr. Srinivas Kodiyalam Ed Turkel Himanshu Misra |
Conference Presentations
Co-Sponsored by:
Co-Sponsor Presenters Michael Wheeler Jack Johnson Don Tolle Philippe Barzilai Geir Moholdt Mark Bohm Cyril Guerin Greg Hopton Doug Roach David Reid William E. Bigot |
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