Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a technology that is more than three decades old, and Boeing has been a leader in researching and implementing AM in the aerospace industry since 1997. Metal powder-bed AM technology, however, has only recently begun to demonstrate value for application into critical aerospace products that require high quality and rigorous process and manufacturing control. This presentation describes several technological advancements being implemented at Boeing that lead to significant gains in production quality, scale and efficiency. The advancements, however, are not without challenges, which are also addressed. Finally two case studies of certified flight hardware are presented and the value added over the traditional counterpart is discussed.

Manufacturers are finding amazing value leveraging technology to accelerate innovation cycles and deliver new products and services. Some such examples have reduced innovation cycle times by as much as 35% and decreased cost of NPI similarly. Imagine company revenue being reduced by as much as 40% due to the impact of the pandemic only to emerge rapidly with new product lines that fill the revenue gap at an even greater profitability prior to the pandemic. Lets discuss how this is being done.

Help your workforce return to work safely with new Social Distancing wearable sensors designed for the factory and warehouse. COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on businesses where firms need to rapidly address new employee health and safety concerns. Providing safe and healthy workspaces is one of the key challenges. Learn what technologies are being deployed to help companies provide social distance management.

Winning the war on talent with a great place to work culture.

Successful development and commercialization of Exosomes-Based therapies require a scalable manufacturing platform in order to be able to meet market needs (QUANTITY) at acceptable COGS. This will ensure patient accessibility and deliver the desired ROI for therapy developers (COST). Furthermore and more importantly, the process must result in high quality material consisting of well-defined final exosome-based product (QUALITY). In this presentation, we cover these three important factors with a particular emphasis on characterization considered as a key critical element for successful development and commercialization.

As the Baby Boomer generation retires from the workforce, numerous industries are finding in difficult to fill positions. This has lead to more companies looking toward automating as many lower skilled tasks as possible to free employees to focus on other tasks. In this presentation, Aaron Prather will discuss some of the best practices to follow when deploying robotics and other automation into your operation and how to make your existing employees not only part of the process, but team players in wanting the robots as part of their team.

In 2030 Gen Z employees will be over a third of the workforce. These early career employees need to be engaged differently from the generations before. Hear the perspective of a leader of teams that has hired over a hundred Gen Z engineers. Walk away from this presentation with practical guidance to improve the effectiveness of your engagement of Gen Z employees!

In this presentation, Dr. Marlene R. Kolodziej, DBA, ITIL, VP, Centralized Services, Ricoh USA, Inc. will discuss how Augmented Reality (AR) is one silver lining that has come from the pandemic and is allowing for a superior customer experience, despite the limitations of not being able to complete in-person service calls. She’ll also detail how people, technology, knowledge and process play into the delivery of a business continuity plan and use Ricoh’s response to the pandemic as an example of what worked, while also sharing lessons learned.

Cost optimization and continuous imrpovement demand a high-performance culture and smart digital enablers to drive innovative manufacturing management. We help our customers merge physical and digital manufacturing environments into one ecosystem.

This presentation will provide an overview of technologies that enable robots to (1) program themselves, (2) efficiently learn from the observed performance, (3) safely operate in the presence of uncertainty, (4) appropriately call for help during the execution of challenging tasks, and (5) effectively communicate with humans. The use of a team of smart robotic assistants can significantly improve human productivity and eliminate the need for human involvement in tasks that pose risks to human safety. In high-mix application areas, production volume may not be high. Therefore, justifying capital expenditure based on return on investment is often challenging. robot as a service model is eliminating the need for upfront capital expenditure in deploying robots.

"In an increasingly competitive environment, how do you boost your team’s productivity while retaining top talent? In this presentation we will explore how to align at multiple levels to improve your team’s engagement, efficiency, and outcomes. Working across your organization to understand the landscape to increase your team’s ability meet organizational expectations • Challenging work tasks to focus your team on the right activities to increase your team’s ability to deliver • Investing in your individual team members success through coaching, professional development, and opportunity to increase team member satisfaction "

Methodology like '3x5 why's' and 'Prevent Protect Predict' have been long established, but organizations still struggle today to get to the bottom of systemic root causes that slow down their programs, cost them money and ultimately can break the trust relationship with their consumers and their brand image. So, how can we better leverage data that already exist in organizations to shift the focus on fixing their systemic problems once and for all? And most importantly, what can leaders with no quality background learn from these quality techniques and how can they use them to turn their functions in learning and innovative organizations?

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Innovation is all about creating measurable, quantifiable, and demonstrable value to both your customer and business. It is your ability to build the right product, for the right market, build it right with the right tools, processes and resources, and build it fast so you do not miss the market window. This presentation will introduce the innovation ecosystem and provide valuable lessons from practice to help you establish an effective culture of innovation to reward the right behavior with a maniacal focus on the customer.

In recent years the confluence of cloud computing, faster networking, mobile, edge device processing, and sensor technologies have converged to enable formerly inanimate objects to start talking. We all know this as the IOT, or the Internet of Things. Companies across the globe have leaped into the fray to ride the wave of this new way of delivering innovative services, optimizing performance, zeroing in on targeted sales opportunities, and at the core, collecting data to drive better and faster decision-making. This presentation takes the perspective of a nearly 100 year old manufacturing company producing mechanical padlocks and it’s decision to purposefully enter the IOT doing what it does best, that is, produce portable locking devices, but newly improved with intelligence added. This journey will cover the insights used to inform the strategy, and a few of the more common challenges across the industry including go to market, customer support, and sales.

Agility is necessary to be successful in R&D product development. We can learn this from taking a look at case studies of successful companies over time and how they’ve remained relevant as society changes. Agility, however, is usually associated with a small size, so how does a large company remain agile? Dow Inc. has successfully delivered new innovations in short times as demonstrated by its response to the pandemic with the development of PPE for the medical industry. In addition to examining the critical elements which made that possible, I will discuss my experience on leading the team through changing times and discuss 7 key components I found critical for agile product development.

Eliminate inefficiencies, manage costs and build a sustainable foundation. Integrate with legacy systems. Manage strategy, Security and Scalability.

In today’s new norm of Digital Transformation what are the steps that should be taken to ensure you are moving in the right direction and if your investments are paying dividends. You need to evaluate these investments, regain control of the implementation processes, ensure you are building the necessary business case and review the role of IT and how it fits with today’s environment.