15th Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium

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Innovation in global manufacturing  - New models for sustainable value capture

23 - 24 September 2010, Cambridge

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Dr Stephan Biller

General Motors Corporation

Stephan Biller is a Group Manager for sustainable manufacturing systems at the General Motors R&D Center in Warren, Michigan. Directing internal and external teams from India, China, Europe and the US, he has been responsible for the development of the global real-time optimized information factory and the digital factory. His technical accomplishments and innovation leadership have earned him distinguished GM awards, including four "Boss" Kettering Awards, GM’s highest corporate innovation award. Dr. Biller is a former senior editor of the journal Production and Operations Management and currently an associate editor of the Journal of Manufacturing Systems. He holds a BS/MS in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University, USA and an MBA from the University of Michigan, USA.

Prof Umit Bititci

University of Strathclyde

Umit Bititci, PhD, CEng, FRSA, FIOM, MIET, MCIPS is the Director of the Strathclyde Institute for Operations Management and the Professor of Technology and Enterprise Management at the University of Strathclyde. He has served as the Chairman of IFIP WG5.7 specialising in Integrated Production Management and Vice Chairman of the Institute of Operations Management. Umit also chairs the Scottish Partnering Form and he is member of the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Board.

Umit has over 20+ years of academic and industrial experience working with a range of UK, European and Asian companies on Business Transformation, Strategy Management, Performance Measurement, Supply Chain Management and Business Process Improvement.

Umit has been responsible for a number of European and UK funded research and development programmes. To date Umit has published three edited books and over 140 papers in international journals and conferences.

Stuart Foster

Global Manufacturing Director, Huntsman Advanced Materials

Martin Jarvis

Operations Director, D1 Oils

Dr Scott Sampson

Global Supply Chain Management Group, Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University

Dr. Scott Sampson is the James M. Passey Professor of Business Management at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) where he teaches Service Management and Supply Chain Management in BYU’s top-tier MBA and undergraduate business programs. His research involves service paradigms, service design, and service optimization. He has published research articles in Management Science, Operations Research, Journal of Operations Management, and other top journals, and a textbook on the Unified Service Theory (UST). He has received multiple research awards, including the "Most Influential Service Operations Paper Award" for a 2006 article on the UST, and has been recognized as the third most prolific publisher of top-tier articles on Service Operations Management. Scott received his MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Virginia.

Eric Schmidt

Senior Program Manager, Electrical Sector Operations Excellence, Eaton Corporation

Eric A. Schmidt is currently a Senior Programs Manager at Eaton Corporation located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.  He is part of Eaton’s Electrical Sector Global Operations Excellence Organization and he currently specializes in the application and development of a Manufacturing Strategic Assessment process to optimize global manufacturing networks.  He and his team have been in this role since 2008.  In addition, he also has over 20 years of experience in numerous positions including engineering, operations management, business strategy/development and program management at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan.   Eric holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University, an MBA from Madonna University, and is studying at the PhD level on a part time basis at the University of Pittsburgh.

Jagjit Singh Srai

Head, Centre for International Manufacturing, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

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Rod Skewes

GPNP Production Location Manager, Product Source Planning, Caterpillar

Rod Skewes has been with Caterpillar Inc. for more than 24 years where his positions have included economics, market research, accounting, 6 Sigma and, for the last 6 years, Global Production Network Planning (GPNP). As GPNP Manager, Rod was responsible for the development and implementation of an enterprise wide production footprint plan for Caterpillar. He has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, a Master's Degreee in Agricultural Economics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC and is a Certified Management Accountant.

Prof Mitchell M Tseng

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and MIT- Zaragoza Logistic Center

Professor Tseng is the Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management and Director, Advanced Manufacturing Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Adjunct Professor, MIT- Zaragoza Logistic Center. He started his career as a production engineer developing key enabling manufacturing technologies for IT industry. Some of them, including diamond machining for polygons in laser printers, are still widely used in industry. After two decades working in industry and serving various posts in management ranks and become a senior executive in a Fortune 50 company, he joined Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1993 as the founding department head of Industrial Engineering. He also held faculty positions at University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana and MIT. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy of Production Engineers (CIRP), and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is internationally recognized for his work in Mass Customization and Global Manufacturing. Most of his research works are not only published in leading academic journals but with significant industrial relevance. Sponsors of his research and consulting projects include AT & T, CISCO, Emerson, Esquel, Honeywell, Lucent Technologies, Intel, SAP, Rockwell International, Liz Claiborne, Motorola, Nokia, GAP, Ford Motor, Norvullus, Tecton, Synocus, Yueshen, OOCL, Novellus, Ove ARUP, Shui-On Land, HK Air Cargo Container Limited and several others.

Professor Tomonari Yashiro

Director General, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

Professor Yashiro gained his first degree and PhD at the The University of Tokyo, Japan in Architecture and Building Engineering. He has worked in the Building Research Institute, Ministry of Construction Japan and in various academic institutions. He was the convenor for ISO/TC59/SC17/W4; he is an Affiliated member of the Science Council of Japan; was part of the Academic Secretariat in the World Sustainable Building Conference 2005 (SB05); and is an Advisory Board Member of the Ministry of Construction (Japan). His particular academic interest is in Sustainable Resource and Energy Management in construction related activities.

Synopsis

Japanese manufacturing industry has been experiencing structural changes for the last two decades. Manufacturing firms have been obliged to transfer points of production from Japan to oversea. Some manufacturing firms promoted the transfers proactively with long term strategies. However, the others seem to transfer point of locations, without certain strategies, only to respond to the circumstance including too strong yen. Consequently, in a sense, international manufacturing has been facilitated in Japan for the last decades. Now, the following questions are raised and are being debated among stakeholders in and around manufacturing industry;

• Is the current geographical allocation of points of production appropriate?
• If the idea to preserve “mother factory” in Japan could be justified, how could we identify and define the function and the role of “mother factory”?
• Number of well-experienced engineers and technicians with site-based profound knowledge has been declined. Then how could we sustain core-competence of manufacturing industry by organizational continuous capability building?
• Based on the idea of concentration in core competence, each firm tends to restrict R&D investment on uncertain and/or risky issues. Then how could we facilitate R&D on uncertain and/or risky but significant issues from the aspect of national level competency?

Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo (IIS UT) is the leading research/educational body with over 100 faculty members, 200 full time research stuffs and 700 graduate school students. Since late 1940, IIS has been taking a role of whole range of engineering research. IIS is also a pioneer of academic-industry collaboration and has long term partnership, though most of them are informal and on personal trust basis. IIS contributed to set up brand new area of industry by collaboration of those partners.

The presentation illustrates the history, the framework, the process, and the achievement of industry-academic collaboration in IIS for the last 60 years. However, now, previous framework and process are not always effective because of the diffusion of international manufacturing, IIS is now being requested by the industrial partners to set up another framework of industry-academic collaboration in the context of international manufacturing. The presentation introduces the content of debates on possible actions by IIS to respond the requests. Then the presentation discusses on potential and barriers of industry-academic collaboration in the circumstance of international manufacturing.