The 2001 International Forum on

Design for Manufacture and Assembly

June 4 - 5, 2001 - Newport, Rhode Island

PROGRAM
Sunday, June 3

6:00-9:00 p.m. Registration - Main Lobby of Hyatt Regency Newport Hotel

7:00-8:00 p.m. Introductory Presentation - Winston Knight

7:00-9:00 p.m. Informal Social (cash bar & hors d'oeuvres)

Monday, June 4

7:45 a.m. Late Registration and Continental Breakfast

Session I DFMA Industry Implementations

(Chairman - Geoffrey Boothroyd, BDI)

8:30 a.m. Getting Faster Through the Early Use of Innovative Tools – Goran
Marunic and Zbig Wroniewicz, MDS SCIEX

DFMA for Early Concept Development of Automotive Seats - Randall E.

Szalma, Magna Seating Systems

The Application of DFMA Techniques to the Next Generation of

Automotive Door System Designs - Brian H. Staser, Delphi Automotive
Systems

10:00 a.m. Break

Session II DFM Implementations

(Chairman – Robert Williams, Hewlett-Packard)

10:30 a.m. The Role of Cost Managment in New Product Development - A Pragmatic
approach – Dantar Oosterwal and Dan O'Callaghan, Harley-Davidson
Motor Company

DFM Experiences and Strategies for Implementation, Kenneth G. Swift

and Nathaniel J. Brown, University of Hull

DFx at work in NOKIA Networks – Malcolm Perry, Nokia Networks

12:00 Noon Lunch

Session III Lean Design Processes
(Chairman – Gordon Lewis, DaTuM 3D)

1:00 p.m. Lean Design Process – Itzhak Ben-Levy, Israel Aircraft Industries

Implementing Lean Manufacturing and Lean Design (DFMA) via the

Raytheon 6 Sigma Process – Paul Zimmermann, Raytheon Systems
Company

Measuring R&D Portfolio Success: Best Practices - Bradford L. Goldense,

Goldense Group, Inc.

2:30 p.m. Break

Session IV Product Design Developments

(Chairman - Nicholas Dewhurst, BDI)

3:00 p.m. Product Portfolio Architecting – Kevin Otto, Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

Product Design Process Metrics Behaviour, a Study of DFA Metrics –

Roope Takala, MIT/CIPD

4:00 p.m. Adjourn

6:00 p.m. Dinner Cruise

Tuesday, June 5

7:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast - Conference Center Lobby

Session V Cost and Reliability Considerations

(Chairman – Mark Curtis, Design IV)

8:30 a.m. The use of Knowledge based tools for Managing Produc Cost - A Case
Study – Dantar Oosterwal and Dan O'Callaghan, Harley-Davidson Motor
Company

Assembly Reliability Evaluation Method Shop Evaluation System –

Toshijiro Ohashi, Hitachi, Ltd.

Factors Influencing the Cost of Regular Deep Drawn Parts – Brian Fogg,
Manchester Metropolitan University

10:00 a.m. Break

Session VI Panel Discussion on Early Cost Estimating at the Design Stage

(Chairman - Winston Knight, BDI)

10:30 a.m. Panelists Dantar Oosterwal, Harley-Davidson Motor Company

Ken Swift, University of Hull
Robert Williams, Hewlett Packard
Paul Zimmermann, Raytheon

12:00 Noon Lunch

Session VII DFA Applications

(Chairman - Jon Freckleton, RIT)

1:00 p.m. Evaluation of assembly sequence within the DFA - Luiz AlbertoGentil
Mendes, Embraer

Learning from Your Competitors - The ABC’s of Product Benchmarking

– David Meeker and F James McWilliams, Compaq Computer

Proactive DFA and the Designers' Sandpit – Nathan Brown, Ken Swift,
Graham Jared, Peter Robinson, Susan Tate and Simon Grabowski,
University of Hull

2:30 p.m. Break

Session VIII DFMA Developments
(Chairman – John Gilligan, BDI)

3:00 p.m. An approach for Size Reduction Assessment in Product Development:

Design for Size Reduction (DFSz) – Osvaldo Aronica,Gualtiero Fantoni,
and Francesco Vezzi, ENEA

Using Digital Photography To Help Promote Your DFMA Ideas - Richard

J. Petendree, Pitney Bowes - DFS Business Unit

4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks – John Gilligan

Wednesday, June 6

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Software Demonstrations (open to all)

12:00 Noon Lunch