Manufacturing & Technology Conference & Expo 2017

MESA North American Conference Agenda

Sunday, May 7
8:00 am – 6:00 pm	Registration Open
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Exhibitor Move In
Monday, May 8
6:30am – 6:00pm	Registration Open/Badge Pick Up
6:30am – 8:30am	Breakfast for Conference Pass Attendees
7:00am – 12:00pm	Exhibitor Move In
7:00am – 4:00pm	Plant Tours
11:30am – 1:30pm	Boxed Lunches (Workshop + Tour attendees)
9:00am - 12:00pm	Pre-Conference Workshops: Future Trends for Continuing Professional Education Smart Manufacturing - Starting the Digital Journey
1:00pm – 4:30pm	MESA Smart Manufacturing Fix Event
1:30pm – 4:30pm	Pre-Conference Workshops: How to Approach Innovation In A Way That Drives Real Results Preparing Today's Multigenerational Workforce for Smart Manufacturing
2:00pm – 6:30pm	Exhibit Hall Open
5:00pm – 6:30pm	Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall
5:00pm – 6:30pm	Cocktail Reception: Bartender Bot Tri-C International Robotics Team Demos - Attendees to "drive" robot
Tuesday, May 9
6:30am – 4:00pm	Registration / Badge Pick Up
6:30am – 7:15am	Breakfast Buffet
7:30am – 8:45am	Welcome Remarks & Opening Keynote Total Transformation: How Ford is Reinventing Itself for the Digital Age
9:00am – 4:00pm	Exhibit Hall Open
9:00am – 10:00am	Conference Breakout Session #1 Variation Reduction Kaizens: A Lean Approach Case Study How Harley-Davidson Leverages Lean to Drive Health and Safety Excellence Reshore. Expand. Win. How Smart Manufacturers Manage 300% Growth With Current Staff Levels Creating a Learning Organization with the Toyota KATA Rapid PDCA Process Real Time Process Control & Data Analytics in a High Volume "Smart Factory" Modern Demand-Driven Manufacturing: Myths, Strategies
10:00am – 11:00am	CROSSOVER: STAGE: GE's Digital Factory Demo VR/AR Experience Collaborative Robot Challenge Drone Contest
10:00am – 11:00am	Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
11:15am - 12:15pm	Conference Breakout Session #2 Choosing the Right KPIs Data-Driven Daily Management - Driving Performance at the Point of Impact From Dumb Metal To Neural Networks: How A Rust belt Manufacturer Transformed Itself Building a Successful Apprenticeship Program The Journey of Gentex Optics from Manual Production Processes to Industry 4.0 A Lean Journey to IIoT: Lessons Learned and Best Practices
12:30pm – 1:45pm	Lunch Keynote and Awards Toyota Production System: Insights from the Inside
2:00pm – 3:00pm	Conference Breakout Session #3 Best Plant Winners' Panel How Kenworth Truck Company is Quantifying and Developing the SafetyDNA of Its Supervisors: A Case Study Leadership GPS: Aligning Goals, People and Systems for Sustainable Success Creating, Mangaging and Maintaining a High Performing Workforce by Partnering With 'The Power of 3' Cybersecurity - Data & Software Regulatory Compliance in the Cloud Augmented Reality: Then, Now, Forever
3:00pm – 4:00pm	Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
3:00pm – 4:00pm	CROSSOVER: STAGE: Innovation Awards / NED Talk Show 3D Printing Experience 3D Selfies Drone Contest
4:15pm – 5:15pm	Conference Breakout Session #4 How Firstronic Streamlined Operations by Implementing a Kanban System Hoshin Kanri - Creating and Executing your Vision! Training a Super-Plant Workforce A Simple Start to Smart Manufacturing Faster than a 3-D Printed Speeding Bullet: Inside the Next Wave of Additive Manufacturing
6:30pm	Special Event / Night Out
Wednesday, May 10
6:30am – 1:30pm	Registration / Badge Pick Up
6:30am – 7:15am	Breakfast Buffet
7:30am – 8:30am	Conference Breakout Session #5 Employee Engagement Techniques at Intertape Polymer Group Total Process Reliability: Improving Equipment Performance and Reliability Winning at the Intersections: Tiers and Functions How Honda North America Is Bridging the Skills Gap and Building an Equipment Tech Team Journey Toward a Connected Digital Manufacturing Enterprise aThe Facts and Figures of Big Data for the Manufacturing Industry
8:15am – 8:45am	Breakfast Buffet
8:45am – 10:00am	Keynote Presentation Lean Team: Driving, Enabling & Sustaining Operations Excellence
10:00am - 11:00am	CROSSOVER: STAGE: suitX Man Vs Machine Robot Challenge Robot Competition – CCC Drone Contest
10:00am – 2:00pm	Exhibit Hall Open
10:00am - 11:15am	Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
11:30am – 12:30pm	Conference Breakout Session #6 Committing Your Suppliers to Continuous Improvement The Real Work of Management: How Lean Practice Creates Daily Leadership for Stability, Improvement, and Growth Mastering the Millennial Workforce When Technology Enables Collaboration: An IoT Case Study with Faurecia
12:45pm – 1:45pm	Lunch Keynote Panel - Taking That One Giant Leap: Best Practices and strategies for getting started on your first IIoT project
1:45pm	Conference Adjourns
2:00pm	Hall Closes
2:00pm - 5:00pm	Exhibitor Move Out

Overview Agenda

MESA North American Conference Agenda

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Wednesday, May 10