OPENING SESSION – 2008 VISIPRISE CUSTOMER CONFERENCE
Keynote Speaker: Simon Jacobson, AMR Research
Visiprise speakers: Sean McCloskey, Carter Johnson, Mike Lackey

We’ll kick off our conference with an introduction to the Visiprise Executive Team, who will provide company, product and business strategy updates to the group. We will also be joined by Simon Jacobson, Senior Analyst with AMR Research, who will provide an overview of the current manufacturing landscape along with some of the strategic innovations that best-in-class manufacturers are utilizing in their operations. Simon will examine the value of integrating manufacturing with operations and will explore concepts such as Manufacturing 2.0 and Digital Manufacturing and other strategies that global manufacturers apply IT to their processes as part of their ongoing evolution toward becoming demand-driven manufacturers.

VISIPRISE SFM IN A DEFENSE ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT: ADAPTATION AND IMPLEMENTATION AT GDLS-TO
Bruce Stilmack

General Dynamics Land Systems - Tallahassee Operations (GDLS-TO) recently converted from its "home grown" MES application to Visiprise CAPP/SFM.  This presentation documents the tasks accomplished while seeking an optimum solution to accommodate functionality of an aging system (with ties to legacy MRP), corporate specific business rules and site unique testing1 requirements.  The "new system" was required to interface with TipQA, be flexible enough for a multi site application and open for an imminent Oracle ERP implementation.  We review the Lessons Learned during the development and deployment phases; software caused network latency issues, planned enhancements and the near future use of SFM at other GDLS facilities.  Participants will be exposed to the issues they may face trying to adapt their unique requirements to the core Visiprise product and the importance of their need to first understand their own business rules and then manage Visiprise interpretation of these rules.

Please note: New time scheduled.

SESSION 3
2:00pm – 3:00pm

Room:
Vinings I

 VISIPRISE MANUFACTURING PLANNING
Dave Blatner, Paul DeMarle, Dan Kruidenier, Ron Bourassa

Attend this session to learn about the latest developments to the Visiprise Manufacturing Planning suite of solutions, including Computer-Aided Process Planning (CAPP), Bill of Material Management (BOMM), Manufacturing Change Management (MCM), Shop Floor Management (SFM) and Tool Management. An introduction to enhancements will also be included in the discussion.

SESSION 3
2:00pm – 3:00pm

Room:
1203

VISIPRISE REPORTING AND HISTORICAL SQC
Suzanne McCaskey

Learn about Visiprise reporting features available to you!  This session will provide a comprehensive overview of the reporting features available in Visiprise solutions, along with an overview of Visiprise Historical SQC, a dynamic Web-based application that serves as a portal and centralized system for quality improvement analysis and reporting. Create reports based on pareto analysis, process capability metrics, and control charts for both attribute and variable data, including drill down to view the underlying data.

SESSION 3
2:00pm – 3:00pm

Room:
1205

MANUFACTURING INNOVATION – DEMO ROOM
Various

Do you have a specific business issue, product feature or technique that you would like to see addressed in a demo?  Please provide your name, company and details of what you would like to see!  Sign up at:
http://www.visiprise.com/conf2008/sessiondemo.htm

SESSION 4
3:00pm – 4:00pm

Room:
Vinings I

VISIPRISE MANUFACTURING EXECUTION
Michael Cressman, Camille Keglovitz

Attend this session to learn about the latest developments to the Visiprise Manufacturing Execution suite of solutions, including Visiprise Manufacturing.  We will provide updates to this suite since our last conference as well as future plans, including an overview of Visiprise Manufacturing 6.0.

SESSION 4
3:00pm – 4:00pm

Room:
1203

PRODUCT INSTALLATION AND DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY: PANEL DISCUSSION
Susan Heath, Brad Braley, Mark Thornton

Join this session to provide your input as Visiprise reviews the installation and deployment tasks surrounding its software products. Session will begin with an overview of the deployment architectures of Visiprise's software products. The session will continue with a review of the activities performed during an implementation that lead to a high performance and stable production system.

SESSION 4
3:00pm – 4:00pm

Room:
1205

VISIPRISE CAPP: STANDARD TEXT
Manufacturing Innovation - Demo Room

Stay tuned for more information on this session.

SESSION 5
4:00pm – 5:00pm

Room:
Vinings I

VISIPRISE QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Chet Moutrie, Paul DeMarle
Attend this session to learn about the latest developments to the Visiprise Quality Management solution, including an overview of the latest version of Visiprise Quality Management and a brief description of new features planned for near-term implementation.

SESSION 5
4:00pm – 5:00pm

Room:
1203

LEAN MANUFACTURING CONCEPTS AND MES
Rick Nordin

Join this session to learn about the strategic leverage an MES system provides throughout the Lean journey.  Rick Nordin will discuss lean manufacturing concepts and the “day-in-the life” of a continuous improvement team in a lean environment.  Rick will also present how the team leverages the high resolution information and operations visibility uniquely available from an MES system to drive dramatic improvements in operations.  Concepts such as Little’s Law, Cycle Time and Inventory Management, and Manufacturing Variation will be discussed.

SESSION 5
4:00pm – 5:00pm

Room:
1205

MANUFACTURING INNOVATION – DEMO ROOM
Various

Do you have a specific business issue, product feature or technique that you would like to see addressed in a demo?  Please provide your name, company and details of what you would like to see!  Sign up at:
http://www.visiprise.com/conf2008/sessiondemo.htm

SESSION 6
8:30am – 9:30am

Room:
Vinings I

INDUSTRY TRENDS AND BEST PRACTICES
Carter Johnson, Dave Blatner, Rick Nordin, Brad Ison

Join us for an overview into the strategic direction and roadmap of Visiprise solutions and how each addresses the dynamic needs of our High Tech, Aerospace & Defense, Automotive and Medical Device customers today and in the future.

SESSION 6
8:30am – 9:30am

Room:
1203

VISIPRISE SUPPORT PRACTICES
Sudhi Rao

Join us for an overview of the Visiprise Support organization.  This session will help you understand what to expect from Visiprise’s customer support process and how to work together with Visiprise to build a successful relationship.

SESSION 6
8:30am – 9:30am

Room:
1204
 

VISIPRISE MANUFACTURING PLANNING (UID)
Dan Krudenier, Paul DeMarle, Ron Bourassa

Attend this session to learn about the latest developments to the Visiprise Manufacturing Planning suite of solutions, as they relate to DoD Unique Identification (UID). Included in this session will also be discussion concerning the ‘redesigned” Serialized Parts collection data panel.

SESSION 6
8:30am – 9:30am

Room:
1205

VISIPRISE BILL OF MATERIAL MANAGEMENT (BOMM)
MANUFACTURING INNOVATION – DEMO ROOM

Visiprise Bill of Material Management (BOMM) is an add-on module to Visiprise CAPP. It adds multiple level product structure management capabilities to the Visiprise CAPP system that supports process engineers as they define how a product will be brought together during its manufacture or dismantled and reassembled during modification and maintenance. An introduction of the product’s features and functions will be conducted during the demonstration

SESSION 7
9:30am – 10:30am

Room:
Vinings I

MES AND YOUR PLM STRATEGY
Carter Johnson

For many years, Visiprise has recognized the need to integrate manufacturing operations to the design cycles of our customers.  The market is now seeing this need and the reality of PLM to MES integration is taking shape.  In this session we will present the business drivers of a seamless handoff between design and manufacturing for highly engineered products and the use of 3D work in instructions on the shop floor.  We will also explore currently available offerings from Visiprise for PLM to MES integration as well as our partner ecosystem and openly discuss our future strategy for this area.

SESSION 7
9:30am – 10:30am

Room:
1203

SESSION 7
9:30am –10:30am

Room:
1204
 

VISIPRISE SHOP FLOOR MANAGEMENT (SFM)
Dan Krudenier, Paul DeMarle

Visiprise Shop Floor Management (SFM) is a comprehensive application designed to execute a company's manufacturing or maintenance processes, managing all of the information required for fabrication, tooling, subassembly, and final assembly. It features order creation, shop floor workflow and resource control, work instruction presentation, work-in-process, rework management, data collection, and as-built documentation.   This session will be used to gather the participant’s feedback on a series of proposed enhancements that will help shape the product’s direction; primarily in the area of planned / unplanned removals. and “not for flight / delivery”  equipment and hardware.

SESSION 7
9:30am – 10:30am

Room:
1205

VISIPRISE MANUFACTURING CHANGE MANAGEMENT (MCM)
MANUFACTURING INNOVATION – DEMO ROOM

Visiprise Manufacturing Change Management® (MCM) enables users to initiate, document, monitor, and analyze engineering and manufacturing changes. Designed for manufacturers requiring strict control of change documentation and validation of change incorporation, Visiprise MCM manages change from initiation through manufacture, providing visibility into the impact and status of changes while keeping product configuration in control. An introduction of the product’s features and functions will be conducted during the demonstration.

SESSION 8
11:00am – 12:00pm

Room:
1203

VISIPRISE ERP SHOP FLOOR INTEGRATION OVERVIEW
Chuck Moore, Mark Thornton

Visiprise will provide a comprehensive overview of the ongoing integration initiatives for the Visiprise product suite and SAP.  Visiprise utilizes SAP’s xMII as a toolkit for both integration scenarios and business intelligence GUIs to provide joint customers with a tightly integrated plant floor to enterprise solution.  Topics will include strategies for both Discrete and Repetitive manufacturing, as well as, Return and Repair processing.  SAP Quality Management integration points and Batch Traceability genealogy solutions will also be discussed.

SESSION 8
11:00am – 12:00pm

Room:
1204
 

VISIPRISE COMPUTER-AIDED PROCESS PLANNING (CAPP)
Dave Blatner, Dan Krudenier, Paul Lasance

Visiprise CAPP defines manufacturing and assembly plans for the machining and fabrication of parts, subassemblies, final assemblies, and tooling. With its multimedia delivery capabilities, process planners can quickly capture, retrieve, author, manage, and distribute manufacturing information and work instructions. This session will be used to gather and gage the participant’s feedback on a series of proposed enhancements that will help shape the product’s direction.

SESSION 8
11:00am – 12:00pm

Room:
1205

MANUFACTURING INNOVATION – DEMO ROOM
Various

Do you have a specific business issue, product feature or technique that you would like to see addressed in a demo?  Please provide your name, company and details of what you would like to see!  Sign up at:
http://www.visiprise.com/conf2008/sessiondemo.htm

SESSION 9
1:30pm – 2:30pm

Room:
Vinings I

BOEING: CAPTURING AND COMMUNICATING COMPLEX INTEGRATION KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN MULTIPLE DISPARATE COTS APPLICATIONS
Richard Luoma

With the speed of business along with the advent of electronic data interchange, we have to re-address how we manage manufacturing knowledge and adapt our processes.  This will require faster, more efficient and accurate access to knowledge to support the factory production users.

Combining detailed technical knowledge from multiple Commercial off-the Shelf (COTS) applications with the integration technologies that link them together, and presenting that knowledge to a mixture of technical and non-technical audiences is challenging endeavor. Our objectives were to expand the knowledge and understanding of both the functional support personnel and the information technology specialists who support these new processes, applications and interactions in a production environment.

I will present the methods that we used to capture and clarify this knowledge, derived from multiple sources such as interface control documents, business event flows, integration technology requirements, multiple COTS applications, and the users’ knowledge of the manufacturing and quality processes. In addition, I will also include “lessons learned” which describe how our organization gained better knowledge and continues to provide support to these new COTS applications in the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems manufacturing centers in the Puget Sound region.

SESSION 9
1:30pm – 2:30pm

Room:
1203

AUTOMATING MANUFACTURING COMPLIANCE TO ENABLE OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Brad Ison

Manufacturers face compliance pressures from all directions:  Internal policies and procedures, external government agencies such as the FDA, FAA, and EU, and customer-driven requirements.  However, top companies should view compliance as more than just merely meeting imposed mandates and regulations.  The Automation of Manufacturing Compliance is a key enabler to achieving Operational Excellence across all industries.  A comprehensive technology strategy should include an architecture that closely integrates plant floor Production and Quality Management with feedback to the Enterprise Quality System.

SESSION 9
1:30pm –2:30pm

Room:
1204

VISIPRISE MAINTENANCE REPAIR AND OVERHAUL (MRO)
Paul DeMarle, Chet Moutrie

This interactive session will highlight the MRO functional requirements defined jointly with Visiprise’s user community while elaborating on critical, complex MRO centric solutions supporting the Over & Above condition.  Participants are encouraged to discuss additional feature sets beyond those presented enhancing their company’s MRO business processes and user experience.   

SESSION 9
1:30pm –2:30pm

Room:
1205

VISIPRISE REAL-TIME SPC
Dan Krudenier, Suzanne McCaskey

Learn more about the Visiprise Real-Time SPC solution, which monitors processes, gathers product and process-related information in real-time and through event management, trigger alerts, and alarms raised through trending data so that fluctuations in quality can be minimized.

SESSION 10
2:30pm – 3:30pm

Room:
Vinings I

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION (CSC)
Chris Lennon, Drew Gant

The Manufacturing business landscape is changing, and the cost to service valued customers is rising, the cost of materials and demand is unpredictable, and the need to work within the ever changing regulatory compliance parameters have created an environment where companies must be able plan, execute, verify, and provide real time manufacturing detailed traceability facts of specific incoming and outgoing materials at a whims notice.

By intertwining your MES with a comprehensive and exhaustive business process assessment, you can address the aforementioned issues while positively impacting bottom-line results. This session will provide an introduction to CSC’s MES capabilities, provide an overview to the CSC alliance with Visiprise and will discuss how CSC can enable your company to realize its business goals by leveraging MES. You will learn how CSC assesses existing business processes to ensure MES capabilities are maximized and how to establish a  roadmap for integrating the MES solution within existing and planned systems environments.

SESSION 10
2:30pm – 3:30pm

Room:
1203

NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION BEST PRACTICES
Rick Nordin

New Product Introduction (NPI) can be a complex and challenging process to manage, requiring attention to planning, cross functional organization, application of new knowledge and technology, and efficiency in manufacturing process design to ensure the successful new product launch. Manufacturers focusing on NPI improvements can turn to Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) to support their NPI objectives, including:

• Facilitating the integration of NPI teams on a single system
• Enabling rapid prototyping runs to gather high resolution manufacturing data to highlight areas in need of rapid improvement
• Feeding Design For Manufacturing (DFM) programs with manufacturing fact-based data analysis for manufacturing process improvements prior to launch to volume
• Enabling a paperless environment to drive additional efficiencies throughout their new product engineering and manufacturing ramp-to-volume processes

Join this session to gain insights into lessons learned and a better understanding of the leverage an MES package can provide in your NPI projects, such as:

• Cross functional team selection and charter
• Risk management and definition of project scope
• Achieve paper-less process design and
• Systematize the engineering change process

SESSION 10
2 HR Session:
2:30pm – 4:30pm

Room:
1204
 

VISIPRISE TIME-SENSITIVE TRENDS
Dan Krudenier, Paul DeMarle

Material tracking (including time-and-temperature and moisture-sensitive materials) during the manufacturing process is an important aspect that impacts manufacturing execution management. Sealants, adhesives, polymers, and paints are susceptible to expiration dates and must be managed to avoid inefficient use, extra costs, and excess material disposal. Join this session to learn about the process and system that Visiprise is developing that proactively identifies expired material, prevents expired material use in production, tracks and optimizes usage, and disposal of sensitive materials.

SESSION 10
2:30pm – 3:30pm

Room:
1205

MANUFACTURING INNOVATION – DEMO ROOM
Various

Do you have a specific business issue, product feature or technique that you would like to see addressed in a demo?  Please provide your name, company and details of what you would like to see!  Sign up at:
http://www.visiprise.com/conf2008/sessiondemo.htm

SESSION 11
3:30pm – 4:30pm

Room:
Vinings I

VISIPRISE MACHINE INTEGRATION STRATEGY
Jerry Lowery

In this session we will cover current machine integration capabilities and outline Visiprise’s future machine integration strategy based on industry standards.  The discussion will center on the tools and product enhancements currently under development to further support integrating shop floor equipment with the Visiprise product portfolio.  We will also highlight our partnerships with third party integrators.  Recent machine integration examples will be highlighted as well as some introduction as to how Visiprise expects to support shop floor standards such as CAMX and OPC.

SESSION 11
3:30pm – 4:30pm

Room:
1203

NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION WITH E-Z-GO
Steve Linton

E-Z-GO, a Textron Inc. company and the world's leading manufacturer of golf cars and utility vehicles, unveiled its new, much anticipated fleet golf car in the fall of 2007. The E-Z-GO RXV represents a major step forward in golf car technology and is the result of several years' design, mechanical, performance, ergonomic and safety innovation. E-Z-GO supported their successful launch with MES and other technology to launch its new product.  Join us for this session to see how E-Z-GO approached the launch of its innovative fleet golf car, integrating MES and other technologies with tested manufacturing processes to deliver an efficient and innovative product to the market.

SESSION 11
3:30pm – 4:30pm

Room:
1205

MANUFACTURING INNOVATION – DEMO ROOM
Various

Do you have a specific business issue, product feature or technique that you would like to see addressed in a demo?  Please provide your name, company and details of what you would like to see!  Sign up at:
http://www.visiprise.com/conf2008/sessiondemo.htm

VISIPRISE CUSTOMER PANEL SESSION
Bell Helicopter and Harman Becker

Stay tuned for more information on this session.

SESSION 12
8:30am – 9:30am

Room:
1205

MANUFACTURING INNOVATION – DEMO ROOM
Various

Do you have a specific business issue, product feature or technique that you would like to see addressed in a demo?  Please provide your name, company and details of what you would like to see!  Sign up at:
http://www.visiprise.com/conf2008/sessiondemo.htm

SESSION 13
9:30am – 10:30pm

Room:
1203

PRODUCT INSTALLATION AND DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY: FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION
Susan Heath, Brad Braley, Mark Thornton

Join this follow-up session to provide your input as Visiprise reviews the installation and deployment tasks surrounding its software products.

SESSION 13
9:30am – 10:30am

Room:
1205

MANUFACTURING INNOVATION – DEMO ROOM
Various

Do you have a specific business issue, product feature or technique that you would like to see addressed in a demo?  Please provide your name, company and details of what you would like to see!  Sign up at:
http://www.visiprise.com/conf2008/sessiondemo.htm

SESSION 14
11:00am – 12:00pm

Room:
1203

VISIPRISE CLOSING SESSION – BY INVITATION
Various

We will wrap up the conference with an informal session to cover specific topics and issues submitted by Visiprise customers to facilitate a collaborative exchange of ideas.  All customers will be individually invited to attend and participate in a specific session to accommodate schedules and space availability.

SESSION 14
11:00am – 12:00pm

Room:
1205

VISIPRISE CLOSING SESSION – BY INVITATION
Various

We will wrap up the conference with an informal session to cover specific topics and issues submitted by Visiprise customers to facilitate a collaborative exchange of ideas.  All customers will be individually invited to attend and participate in a specific session to accommodate schedules and space availability.