AMERICAN AUTOMOTIVE SUMMIT 2019
SEPTEMBER 16–17, 2019
MGM GRAND DETROIT • DETROIT, MI
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Driving Business performance through process and techological innovation
PROGRAM
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CARLO MATERAZZO
Head, World Class Manufacturing
REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING BREAKFAST
CHAIR’S WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
BILL FOY
Senior Vice President of Engineering
OPENING KEYNOTE WORLD CLASS MANUFACTURING RESHAPING THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY LANDSCAPE
• What digital, technological, and soft skills are needed to stay ahead right now
• People based challenges and solutions around networked senses and IoT, increased data collection and increased efficiencies through loss recognition
• Core steps and pitfalls in engaging your workforce to provide improved opportunities for the plant and their jobs while providing a sense of ownership
• Case Study: How FCA took a 77-year-old facility and developed its first World Class Manufacturing Facility of 2019
PLENARY AN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IN FLUX: DISCUSSING THE IMPACTS OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
• How is automotive driving towards digitization and industry 4.0
• How CASE is changing the core business model:
• Connectivity
• Autonomous driving
• Shared mobility
• Electrification
• How relationships with suppliers are shifting as new technologies emerge
• Where are new investments taking place?
7:00 am – 8:00 am
8:00 am – 8:10 am
8:10 am – 8:45 am
8:45 am – 9:20 am
PROGRAM DAY ONE
MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS CHAIR
* JOIN US FOR THE PRE-EVENT HAPPY HOUR SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AT 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
QUALITY CHAIR
DONEEN MCDOWELL
Executive Director,
Manufacturing
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING CHAIR
Sponsored by:
DR. DAVID COLE
Chairman
PAUL LINDEN
Advanced Technologies Body
Engineering, Product
Development
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10:00 am – 11:40 am
PRE-ARRANGED 1-2-1 BUSINESS MEETINGS AND REFRESHMENTS
PLENARY HOW AI-ENABLED PROCESS PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION CAN ASSIST IN REDUCING DEFECTS AND REWORKS
• What data is required to get meaningful results from AI on an ongoing basis?
• Adjusting the process parameters to decrease the number of errors in the production process
• Discussing the results of AI-enabled process parameter optimization deployment in stud welding and grey-iron casting environments
• Assisting AI in the manufacturing environment by digitizing and automating different processes
9:20 am – 9:55 am
FRANS CRONJE
CEO and Co-Founder
11:45 am – 12:20 pm
MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS DISCUSSING THE LATEST MATERIALS,
ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING RESEARCH
• Maintaining partnerships between traditional
OEMs and technology companies
• Applying R&D to help drive operational
performance and industry innovation
• Maintaining industry leadership with a customer
-centric focus
• What is changing in stamping, assembly and
powertrain operations?
• Taking manufacturing to the next step: self-
driving technology and commercial-grade hybrid
vehicles
QUALITY DEVELOPING A COLLABORATIVE CULTURE THAT
PUTS PROBLEM-SOLVING FIRST
• Strategies and techniques to improve your root
cause analysis processes
• Upskilling your management teams to create an
organizational culture that emphasizes problem-
solving above all else
• Stop rushing the process: implementing the
proper steps to reach a key decision
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: HOW TO FORM
AND MANAGE YOUR CREATIVE TEAM
• Evaluation of data and AI software technologies
as their participation becomes necessary
• Creating a network of partners who can think
globally and work locally
• Regulation disparities with AI
• Ensuring your organization’s continued product
development efforts as new players constantly
encroach on market share
ANTONIO CESARIA
Executive VP Magna
Mechatronics
JILL REDMON
GVP, Quality, Seating RAMON KUCZERA
SVP, Engineering
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1:05 pm – 2:05 pm
THE IMPACT OF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ON
PROFIT AND CUSTOMER SERVICE
LUNCH AND LEARN ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSIONS
Benefit from additional learning by joining a moderated round-table discussion on pressing issues in the industry. Choose from:
Seating is limited, so please sign up early. Sessions will start at 12:25 PM and run for one hour. Additional seating will be provided if you would prefer to discuss other
topics.
EXAMINING THE LATEST PRODUCTION
CONSIDERATIONS FOR HEAVY TRUCK SUPPLIERS:
DRIVELINES, DRIVE AXELS AND ELECTRIFICATION
DEVELOPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF
MANUFACTURING TALENT
PREEMPTIVE PLANNING OF RISK MANAGEMENT
FOR NEW PRODUCT INNOVATIONS
DISCUSSING THE IMPORTANCE OF LIGHTWEIGHT,
PRODUCTION STRATEGY AND ELECTRIFICATION
COST-EFFECTIVE AND VIABLE AUTOMOTIVE
MANUFACTURING PROCESS WITH 3DP
12:25 pm – 1:00 pm
WORKSHOP AUTOMATION IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
• Expanding core competencies in areas ranging
from the automotive industry to mobility
• Mastering the design of flexible and efficient
production processes
• Creating smart production systems, combined
with flexible logistics systems
• Re-defining areas of development with industry
4.0 and future-oriented solutions
• Coping with developments around demographic
change and data-driven production
WORKSHOP PROPELLING AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
INNOVATION WITH 3D PRODUCTION
• What are the trends and drivers leading the
industry toward 3D production?
• Discussing applications of HP's Multi Jet Fusion
Technology
• How this technology is helping customers
accelerate their digital manufacturing journey
• Enabling customers to upload designs and
produce production-grade metal parts in large
quantities
• Taking advantage of the design freedom,
superior economics, speed and industrial-grade
quality
• Case study: Rapid prototyping of industrial-grade
metal parts and components for Daimler Trucks
North America
WORKSHOP BUILDING THE FACTORY OF THE FUTURE: IS YOUR
FACILITY PREPARED FOR AUTOMATION
• Boosting assembly line productivity in the first
year
• Improving overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
in your core machine area
• Achieving a more future-oriented facility to
expand your market growth, expanding globally
through a smart connected environment
TBA
JEFF STADLER
Director, Engineered Solutions
ANA ALMEIDA
VP, Ford and GM Customer
Business Units JAMES TAYLOR
VP, Rear Drivetrain
DARIN MILLER
Sr. VP America Automotive -
Bearings
PAUL LINDEN
Advanced Technologies Body
Engineering, Product
Development
TBA
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2:10 pm – 2:45 pm
MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS EXPLORING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES DRIVING
AUTOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE: LIGHTWEIGHTING,
ELECTRIFICATION AND AUTOMATED DRIVING
SOLUTIONS
• Discussing the evolution from traditional vehicle
technologies to the latest cutting-edge
innovations at Dura Automotive Systems
• What are considerations of engineering,
manufacturing and purchasing teams in the
vehicle development and design process?
• Ensuring connectivity between vehicle
performances and subsystems
• How lightweight technologies can be applied by
car makers:
• Ultra-lightweight body structures
• Chassis and suspension systems
• Battery trays, etc.
• Examining the benefits of these new
technologies in relation to reduced vehicle
energy consumption and overall profitability for
fleet operators and consumers
• Best techniques to produce these technologies
with BOM cost and cost reduction in mind
• Exploring DURA’s overall innovation, electronics
engineering and advanced manufacturing
strategy to meet industry demand
QUALITY RECOGNIZING THE VALUE OF REAL TIME DATA
AND LEVERAGING IT TO MAKE EFFECTIVE QUALITY
DECISIONS
• Transitioning into a 'culture of data' approach,
leaving the 'culture of quality' approach behind
• Driving a 'data first' quality initiative by selecting
the right technologies and tools
• Employing advanced analytics to make data-
driven decisions
• Cultivating debate and collaboration as part of
the everyday decision-making processes
KREG KUKOR
VP, Quality
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING HOW TECHNICAL COMPLIANCE FITS INTO
CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING PRODUCTS AND
TECHNOLOGIES
• Examining new development possibilities and
ways to optimize processes
• Navigating the complexity of regulatory
requirements and ongoing developments in the
automotive industry
• Adjusting and improving a Compliance
Management System
• Addressing specific risks associated with the
product development process to ensure
compliance
• How traditional compliance elements apply in
the product development space
2:50 pm – 3:25 pm
WORKSHOP HOW AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS CAN DRIVE
RAPID PROJECT DELIVERY AND REDUCE COST
• Discussing key strategies to optimize operational
costs through plant layout planning
• Decreasing project capital costs through
engineering and re-design concepts
• Examining the necessary steps to leading a
successful plant expansion for OEMs and
suppliers to achieve their target production date
• How can automotive manufacturers reduce
errors, improve quality and save money with a
fully integrated BIM environment?
WORKSHOP HOW AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS CAN
BENEFIT FROM STANDARDIZED QUALITY
MANAGEMENT
• Examining how the automotive industry could
benefit from having one consolidated set of OEM
CSR requirements
• How complex and redundant QMS requirements
negatively impact operational efficiencies,
relationships and the ability to respond to
quality-related events
• How a single set of requirement indicates could
create an opportunity for collaboration in
addressing impediments to optimum quality
• Overcoming resistance to change from OEM
through Tier N
WORKSHOP HOW TO EFFECTIVELY INTEGRATE 3D PRINTING
INTO YOUR BROADER MANUFACTURING
STRATEGY
• How to move beyond rapid prototyping
• Exploring how 3D printing can be used in
conjunction with traditional manufacturing
processes
• Reviewing the importance of starting small and
scaling up gradually
• Examining the long term cost savings that will
result from correctly integrating additive
manufacturing into your broader manufacturing
strategy
SANJAY SINGH
EVP and Chief Technology
Officer
MARKUS HARTMANN
VP, Technical Compliance, Mer-
cedes-Benz Research & Devel-
opment
TBA
BRANDON DAVIS
VP, Operations & General
Manager
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3:30 pm – 4:50 pm
PRE-ARRANGED 1-2-1 BUSINESS MEETINGS AND REFRESHMENTS
INNOVATION SPOTLIGHT DIGITIZE TO THRIVE: BRILLIANT MANUFACTURING AND QUALITY AS A BETTER WAY FORWARD
• Manufacturing quality products to ensure customer satisfaction and higher profitability
• Linking hands-on quality engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, distribution and services into a truly scalable system
• Examining the metrics when planning factory optimization
• Maximizing plant floor efficiency with best techniques synchronizing plant floor production
• Putting the power in the hands of your decision maker and observing real-time data in error-proofing
4:55 pm – 5:30 pm
JEFF MCLEAN
Director
5:30 pm – 6:05 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION REINVENTING THE RELATIONSHIP MODEL BETWEEN SUPPLIERS AND OEMS: WORKING TO OPTIMIZE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCIES, COST AND SPEED-TO-
MARKET
• Mastering digital innovation within manufacturing to maximize the bottom line
• Discussing industrialization, agility and taking action within the evolving automotive industry
• Changing manufacturing processes on the shop floor with automation, AI, AR and ML
• Developing strategies to meet demand while balancing expansion and quality
• Sharing responsibility for potential product liability, warrant and recall claims
6:05 pm – 6:50 pm
DAVE KUNSELMAN
CEO
JOHN SAVONA
VP North America
Manufacturing
PLENARY LESSONS OF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ON THE REGIONAL PLANT FLOOR
• Delivering accountability-based leadership to your teams
• How to balance daily operations and long-term strategy while supporting employees
• Analyzing whether concurrently cutting costs, addressing the skills gap and retaining talent is possible
• Building top-down capabilities for continuous improvement and customer satisfaction
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CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION
6:50 pm – 7:00 pm
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS CHAIR QUALITY CHAIR
DONEEN MCDOWELL
Executive Director,
Manufacturing
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING CHAIR
DR. DAVID COLE
Chairman
PAUL LINDEN
Advanced Technologies Body
Engineering, Product
Development
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CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
OPENING KEYNOTE DRIVING PERFORMANCE THROUGH END TO END VALUE STREAMS
• End to end value chain cost drivers identification and elimination
• Optimal P&L management and short term vs long term performance objectives settings
• Building successful supplier-OEM relationships at all levels as a key success factor for value chain performance
• Human factors in delivering performance industrial business in knowledge era
7:00 am – 8:00 am
8:05 am – 8:15 am
8:15 am – 8:50 am
PROGRAM DAY TWO
NETWORKING BREAKFAST WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE
Enjoy breakfast refreshments and informal networking in the Exhibition Hall. We also invite our attendees to network at a Women in Leadership Roundtable with
discussion from extraordinary women leaders in engineering, manufacturing, operations, production and EHS. Seating is limited, so please sign up early.
SHERRY VASA
EVP, Human Resources,
Sustainability and Corporate
Communication
KELLY DIPUCCHIO
Executive Director, Global
Manufacturing Engineering
Program Management
JILL REDMON
GVP, Quality, Seating
ANA ALMEIDA
VP, Ford and GM Customer
Business Units
MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS CHAIR QUALITY CHAIR
DONEEN MCDOWELL
Executive Director,
Manufacturing
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING CHAIR
DR. DAVID COLE
Chairman
PAUL LINDEN
Advanced Technologies Body
Engineering, Product
Development
ANU RATHNINDE
President and Managing Director, Electrical Distrubution Systems, Asia Pacific
LINDA TALIAFERRO
VP, Global Quality
JENNIFER MCKHEEN
VP, Global GM Business
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PLENARY DRIVING OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCES THROUGH DEFINITIVE FACTORY AUTOMATION
• How to maintain continuous improvement while optimizing costs
• Maintaining product development efforts to enhance future growth
• How lightweighting has impacted quality and manufacturing processes
• Avoiding over-automating of your manufacturing processes
• Case Study: The harmonious balance of automation, technology and talent
8:50 am – 9:25 am
PLENARY CREATING THE ULTIMATE DRIVING EXPERIENCE: EMPOWERING DRIVERS ON THE ROAD WITH AI POWERED NATURAL INTERACTION TECHNOLOGY
• Building a vehicle for sheer driving pleasure with safety and emission
• Driving efforts towards process automation with automatic software detecting instruction
• Becoming smarter, more agile and plugged into the evolving IoT
• Increasing the speed of adoption with quicker evaluation and development
• Training workers for the future of auto manufacturing with systems integration experience
9:25 am – 10:00 am
10:05 am – 11:25 am
PRE-ARRANGED 1-2-1 BUSINESS MEETINGS AND REFRESHMENTS
11:30 am – 12:05 pm
QUALITY PROMOTING FUNCTIONAL EXCELLENCE FOR
PROCUREMENT OPTIMIZATION
• Examining product cost reduction and
substitution in the early stages of the design
cycle
• Embedding value sourcing across all functions to
encourage sourcing-driven design changes
• Selecting material based on cost, availability,
costs of spare parts and servicing and supplier
risk
• Reducing complexity in production and supply
chain processes
KEVIN COONS
Director, Commodities
Purchasing and Value
Engineering
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING DEVELOPING A GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
TO HELP COMMERCIALIZE INNOVATION
• What does technological disruption look like in
the automotive industry?
• Overcoming major challenges and opportunities
to innovate in the auto sector
• Examining the keys to creating a successful
global technology strategy
• Developing a methodology to quantify the
customers willingness-to-pay
• Moving away from cost-plus of commodities to
value-based of differentiators
• Case study: Metalsa's Next Generation Frame
Program
SEAN FLEMING
Chief Technology Officer
MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS IMPROVING YOUR ENTERPRISE'S BOTTOM LINE
ON A GLOBAL SCALE
• Remaining competitive in the current Geo-
political climate (NAFTA vs. USMCA)
• Understanding how tariffs and escalating trade
tensions will effect OEM/Supplier relations
• Reconfiguring supply chains to adapt to
changing market preferences
• Working with suppliers to optimize their
manufacturing footprints and fine-tune their
product launches to minimize light price
increases
JENNIFER MCKHEEN
VP, Global GM Business
PAT D'ERAMO
President and CEO
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12:10 pm – 12:45 pm
WORKSHOP BUILDING BEST PRACTICES TO DRIVE
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE ON THE PLANT
FLOOR
• Examining three components that are critical to
any manufacturing team’s success
• Discussing the best and works decisions a
leader can make on the plant floor
• Discussing remote workforce management for
global organizations
• How day-to-day operations are shifting with
automation
• Scaling up for manufacturing capacity
WORKSHOP INCREASING MANUFACTURING EFFICIENCY WITH
DIGITALLY CONNECTED 3D METROLOGY AND
PRODUCT ENGINEERING
• Leveraging existing PLM systems to provide
quality control teams with efficient digital data
storage solutions
• Benefitting product engineering teams by
managing access to 3D measurement real-time
data, improving manufacturing processes
• Digitally connecting quality control teams to
product engineering teams
WORKSHOP HOW AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS CAN DRIVE
RAPID PROJECT DELIVERY AND REDUCE COST
• Discussing key strategies to optimize operational
costs through plant layout planning
• Decreasing project capital costs through
engineering and re-design concepts
• Examining the necessary steps to leading a
successful plant expansion for OEMs and
suppliers to achieve their target production date
• How can automotive manufacturers reduce
errors, improve quality and save money with a
fully integrated BIM environment?
BRANDON DAVIS
VP, Operations & General
Manager
12:50 pm – 1:50 pm
LUNCH AND LEARN ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSIONS
Benefit from additional learning by joining a moderated round-table discussion on pressing issues in the industry. Choose from:
Seating is limited, so please sign up early. Sessions will start at 12:25 PM and run for one hour. Additional seating will be provided if you would prefer to discuss other
topics.
IMPROVING YOUR OEE WITH INFORMATION,
DECISION AND ACTION FOR PRODUCTIVE
MAINTENANCE
SOURCING CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR
AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS
MASTERING THE DESIGN OF THE FLEXIBLE AND
EFFICIENT PRODUCTION PROCESS
MASTERING THE DESIGN OF THE FLEXIBLE AND
EFFICIENT PRODUCTION PROCESS
JEFF MCLEAN
Director
TBA
JESSE MELENDEZ
Director, Marketing & Business
Development
TBA
INNOVATIVE ERGONOMIC, SAFETY AND 5S
SOLUTIONS FOR THE FAST-PACED WORKFORCE
TBA
HOW AI IS CHANGING THE FUTURE OF THE
AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
TBA
ROBOTICS PROCESS AUTOMATION (RPA) AS A
CRITICAL INVESTMENT TO DRIVE EFFICIENCY AND
DIGITAL DELIVERY
TBA
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1:55 pm – 2:30 pm
MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS TALENT MANAGEMENT AS A DRIVER FOR LEAN
• Aligning procedures and people to minimize
waste
• Understanding your unique culture to optimize
lean
• Improving the bottom line by increasing your
team's visibility
• Discussing the impact of continuous
improvement when attracting new talent
QUALITY MOVING TO SMART AUTOMOTIVE
MANUFACTURING WITH STANDARDIZATION
• Standardizing your quality management systems
and manufacturing process to:
• decrease complexity
• remove redundancy
• increase efficiency
• Selecting the right TS requirements to focus on
maximizing quality and reliability
• Understanding the financial implications of
neglecting your QMS
• Creating an audit schedule based on
performance
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING ALGORITHM-DRIVEN DESIGN: HOW AI IS
CHANGING DESIGN
• Leveraging AI and big data to design and build
the cars of tomorrow, using data collected from
the cars of today
• How AI driven design can reduce raw material
requirements without sacrificing structural
integrity
• Using AI to liberate human capital and
streamline your design and engineering
processes BILLY TAYLOR
Global Director, Diversity and
Inclusion
HENRY REISNER
President
INNOVATION SPOTLIGHT REDEFINING THE COMMUTER CAR AND MANUFACTURING THE ULTIMATE DRIVING EXPERIENCE
• Reimagining the automobile: manufacturing something smaller, better and indispensable
• Designing and engineering a more efficient, cost-effective, environmentally friendly and leading edge EV
• Racing towards mass-adoption of cheap electric vehicles by simplifying production processes
• How does electrification impact supply chain, manufacturing and engineering?
2:35 pm – 3:10 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE BALANCING MANUFACTURING, QUALITY AND ENGINEERING AS PROCESSES ADAPT TO DRIVE OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
• Ensuring cohesion between departments to maximize output while maintaining quality standards
• OpEx and CI best practices to implement internally and externally
• Examining the cross development of programs to prepare manufacturing and quality teams for a new stream of products
• Building supply chain visibility to ensure consistency in your global operations
3:10 pm – 3:45 pm
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3:45 pm – 4:30 pm
4:30 pm – 4:40 pm
CHAIR’S REMARKS AND DELEGATE SURVEY PRIZE DRAW
MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS CHAIR QUALITY CHAIR
DONEEN MCDOWELL
Executive Director,
Manufacturing
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING CHAIR
DR. DAVID COLE
Chairman
PAUL LINDEN
Advanced Technologies Body
Engineering, Product
Development
PANEL DISCUSSION BREAKING DOWN SILOS WITH THIRD PARTY PARTNERS TO DRIVE PRODUCTIVITY AND GROWTH
• How can auto manufacturers increase sales even as the market fluctuates?
• Analyzing the fundamental challenges and disruptions for automakers
• Three economic indicators manufacturers should be focused on:
• vehicle miles traveled
• consumer sentiment
• interest rates
• Addressing trends for budgetary spend in 2019-2020
• Overcoming trade wars by leveraging industry-specific data analysis to anticipate market trends