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Opening Reception Remarks The 2008 NCM Forum opened with remarks from Dennis Thompson, President and CEO of DSN Innovations. |
 Robert Rearden, VP of Global Supply Chain Initiatives at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, gave a very informative presentation on his work on the F-35 supplier network. |
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| Forum Moderator Dr. William Kessler, President of Palisades Enterprises and Professor and Director of Executive Programs for the Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Tech, acted as moderator at this year’s forum. |
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| Working Sessions Attendees participated in four working sessions that included, Managing in the NCM Environment, NCM Architecture, Intense Collaboration and R&D for NCM. A “round robin,” in which the lead speakers of each session spent 30 minutes with each of the other groups to share their findings and to get their perspectives, allowed all attendees to interact with all of the leads. |
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| Working Session One Managing in the NCM Environment was led by Eric Mittelstadt, CEO of the National Council for Advanced Manufacturing, and provided attendees with a snapshot of management-related progress and challenges based on contemporary approaches to network centric manufacturing. |
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| Working Session Two NCM Architecture was led by Dennis Wisnosky, Chief Technical Officer/Chief Architect for the Department of Defense Business Mission Area, and co-lead Randy Coleman from New Vectors. They discussed the DoD’s Business Management Area (BMA) collaborative approach for creating GCM architecture and examined the ways that manufacturing organizations are affected and can participate. |
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| Working Session Three Intense Collaboration was led by Robert Porter Lynch, CEO of The Warren Company and author, in which attendees discussed evidence that shows intense collaboration as an imperative for network centric manufacturing. |
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| Working Session Four Research and Development was led by Leon McGinnis, Gwaltney Professor of Manufacturing Systems at Georgia Tech University, and provided attendees with a set of priorities for research and development that directly addressed the new challenges posed by NCM. |
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| Luncheon Keynote Speaker Tim Opitz, Director of the 787 Production and Support Systems Integration, Processes and Tools for Commercial Airplanes at The Boeing Company, spoke at the luncheon. He had very interesting perspectives to share about network centric manufacturing and the collaboration that it takes to build a Boeing plane. |
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| Q&A with all participants The 2008 NCM Forum came to a close with a general panel and Bill Kessler as moderator. The panel not only answered questions directed from the attendees, but also created new discussion topics that will be addressed in the years to come. |
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General Panel Shown left to right Terry Labat: Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing and Services, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration Eric Mittelstadt: CEO, National Council for Advanced Manufacturing Tim Opitz: Director 787 Production and Support Systems Integration, Processes and Tools, Commercial Airplanes, The Boeing Company Dennis Thompson: President and CEO, DSN Innovations Robert Rearden: VP, Global Supply Chain Initiatives, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company – Joint Strike Fighter Dennis Wisnosky: Chief Technical Officer/Chief Architect, Department of Defense Business Mission Area Robert Porter Lynch: CEO, The Warren Company and author Leon McGinnis: Gwaltney Professor of Manufacturing Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology |
