APMS 2013 International Conference
Sustainable Production and Service Supply Chains
September 9 -12, 2013 – State College, PA, USA
Special Session
Enablers for
Smart Manufacturing
Overview
Smart manufacturing technology has the potential to create significant and measurable
improvements in U.S. manufacturing competitiveness. New information and knowledge
technologies can enable dynamic, demand-driven and sustainable industrial plants and
supply chains. The purpose of the proposed panel session is to: (1) provide a venue
discussion of current developments related to smart manufacturing, and; (2) elicit from the
panel members and the session attendees priorities for new research directions and
standardization efforts that could enable further advancements in this area. We feel this
conference is a good fit for the panel because the development and deployment of smart
manufacturing solutions are applicable to several of the stated conference topics including
Digital Production and Manufacturing, ICT for Manufacturing, ICT for Supply Chain
Management, and Inventory Control.
Panel Makeup
A five to six member panel will be constructed so that its members represent different
industry viewpoints on the needs for enabling wider adoption of smart manufacturing
approaches to manufacturing problems. To accomplish this, panel members will be drawn
from different organizations interested in smart manufacturing such as major
manufacturers, infrastructure/middleware solution providers, storage and computing
service providers, standards developers, and SMEs. Each panel member will be asked to
provide a one to two page position paper.
Session Format
The session’s duration will be two hours. A session moderator will be used to manage the
session. The moderator will open the session with: (1) a welcome to the session for the
audience and the panel; (2) a brief introduction to the topic of smart manufacturing, and;
(3) a brief introduction for each panel member. The session moderator will call upon, in
turn, each of the panel members to give a five to ten minute presentation about their views
on smart manufacturing and what is needed to increase the deployment of smart
manufacturing solutions. Each of the panel member’s talks should cover subjects such as:
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What is smart manufacturing?
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What work are they doing/intend to do in this area?
What roadblocks/impediments keep them from deploying smart manufacturing
solutions?
What is “the way forward” for enabling greater adoption of smart manufacturing
technologies?
After the panel presentations are completed, the moderator will open up the session for
questions from the session attendees. During periods of attendee “shyness”, the moderator
will invite panel members to share views on how smart manufacturing relates to one of the
conference’s theme topics such as Service Engineering or Modeling of Production Systems.
When the allotted discussion period is over, the moderator will thank the panel members
and the attendees for their participation and close the session.
The organizers are open to any modifications to the format suggested by the conference
committee.
Organizers:
Name:
Affiliation:
e-mail:
Name:
Affiliation:
e-mail:
Name:
Affiliation:
e-mail:
Simon Frechette
Program Manager
Systems Integration for Manufacturing and Construction Applications
(SIMCA) Program
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
simon.frechette@nist.gov
Frank Riddick (lead organizer)
Project Leader
Smart Factory Architecture (SFA) Project of the SIMCA program
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
frank.riddick@nist.gov
Evan Wallace
Co-Project Leader
Smart Factory Architecture (SFA) Project of the SIMCA program
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
evan.wallace@nist.gov
Example Session Program
The table below is an example of the session program and the kinds of panel members that
we anticipate will accept invitations to participate.
Session
Activity
Introduction
Panel
Presentation
Panel
Presentation
Panel
Presentation
Panel
Presentation
Panel
Presentation
Discussion
Wrap-up
Panel Member & Affiliation
Moderator
Jim Wetzel,
Technical Director,
General Mills
Stephen Biller,
Chief Manufacturing Scientist,
General Electric
Jim Davis,
Smart Manufacturing Leadership
Coalition (SMLC)
Viewpoint on Smart
Manufacturing
Process and batch
manufacturing
Batch and discrete
manufacturing
10
Smart manufacturing
research and
infrastructure
development
Cloud infrastructure
10
Brian Schott,
CTO,
Nimbus Services
John Wen,
Small and medium
Director,
sized manufacturing
Center for Automation
enterprises
Technologies and Systems (CATS)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Moderator
Moderator
Total session time is approximately two hours.
Duration
(minutes)
10-15
10
10
10
50
5