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8:30-9:00
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Registration and Coffee
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9:00-9:20
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Welcome: Trends in Advanced Machining, Materials and Manufacturing
Adrian Allen and Professor Keith Ridgway, AMRC, University of Sheffield
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9:20-9:50
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Keynote: The Future of Aerospace Manufacturing – a Global Perspective
Peter Hoffman, Vice President of Intellectual Property Management, The Boeing Company
Increased competition and global economic pressures are changing the aerospace industry, and The Boeing Company is adapting in order to assure business success and industry leadership. A critically important element of this strategy is assuring Boeing remains on the leading edge of manufacturing innovation. With the rising complexity of the global marketplace, Boeing works with a wide range of partners in industry, government and academia. These investments are guided by three strategic questions, where is the best technology in the world being developed? How can Boeing create relationships that will add further value to its own investments in technology? How can the company strengthen its presence in key global markets?
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9:50-10:20
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Keynote: Competitive Advantage through High Value Manufacturing
Stephen Burgess, Manufacturing Process & Technology Executive, Rolls-Royce
Mr. Burgess identifies the challenges industry faces in remaining competitive in the field of high value manufacturing (HVM). He will focus on how partners who are adopting a 'collaborative approach' towards exploiting new technology in new environments are starting to fully address and overcome these challenges. He will give examples of the real, tangible benefits such an approach provides.
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10:20-10:40
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Coffee Break
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10:45-11:10
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Investing in the Future
Dr. Masahiko Mori, President, Mori Seiki
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11:10-11:35
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Building a Case for Metals
Dr. Tim Armstrong, Vice President, Research and Product Commercialization, Carpenter Technology Corporation
The materials currently used by the Aerospace industry have not evolved as quickly as the airframe designs. As we look to the future, aircraft will need to be more fuel efficient and economical to maintain and operate. This dictates that engines will operate at higher temperatures, will need stealthier designs, and the materials will have to achieve the stringent engineering, environmental and economic targets being set by the Aerospace Industry. The materials of the future, metals, composites or others will need to have these features: high strength, the ability to operate at very high temperatures, corrosion resistance, fatigue resistance and damage tolerance.
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11:35-12:00
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Next Generation Machining
Klas Forsström, Global President of Sandvik Coromant
When it comes to the trends of the manufacturing industry, market leaders have a responsibility to be perceptive and forward thinking. In terms of competence - R & D and labor needs are more important than ever. Increased competence provides opportunities to develop superior tools and value added manufacturing methods driving the industry into the future. The more advanced manufacturing becomes the harder it is for the individual companies to keep all competencies in house. This opens up new ways of partnerships and cooperation between manufacturers, tool makers, machine makers and research centers. It also sets the agenda of future competence needs, training and recruitment.
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12:00-12:20
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The Future of Flight
Lee Balthazor, President, Royal Aeronautical Society
Legislation, de-regulated competition and environmental challenges are forcing dramatic change in the Global Aerospace market. The approach to design, manufacture and operation of aircraft has begun to be more focused on life cycle perspectives, but Lee suggests how the industry must adopt a total systems approach to integrating technology, education and investment if long term targets are to be met. In isolation we know how innovative technology can drive change, education enable change; long term investment in manufacturing can ensure change. However, future success lies in the effective integration of these factors in the global environment. He illustrates how significant advances can be achieved when they all work together. Lee examines the challenges faced by the pioneers of flight and compares them with those we face today; to consider the lessons we might learn from these early aeronautical professionals.
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12:20-1:30
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Networking Lunch
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1:30-1:50
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New Tools, Techniques, and Technologies
Professor Scott Smith, UNCC
Professor Smith introduces, examines, and evaluates the core manufacturing technology areas being presented at TRAM 2012. He describes the vast opportunities there are for changing established manufacturing methods. He gives a number of examples of how a small idea or invention has the potential to create a paradigm shift in the way structural aircraft parts are made.
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1:50-2:10
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High Value Manufacturing - Future Materials Challenges
Dr. Jamie McGourlay, Rolls Royce
Join Dr. McGourlay as he looks into the trends, challenges and opportunities facing the High Value Manufacturing Community, the key drivers to changing materials requirements and standards, and the ways forward.
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2:10-2:30
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6 of the Best
David Heck, Metals Specialist and Structures Design Engineer, The Boeing Company
David draws from his wealth of experience in technology development to present a selection of the most disruptive technologies he has used, developed by smaller businesses, which can truly change the face of future manufacturing.
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2:30-2:50
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Large-Scale Automated Aerospace Assembly: Is It Feasible?
Curtis Richardson, Associate Technical Fellow – Automation, Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
Production volumes, part size, and task size are some of the most significant differentiators between aerospace manufacturing and other more highly automated manufacturing industries. Applications in industries with high automation utilization typically entail a large quantity of single-element tasks involving small parts or large product runs, and this high utilization and throughput make financial justification relatively straightforward. The aerospace perspective of cycle time and flow can be much broader in scope looking at how long it takes to complete complex sub-assembly units requiring multiple processing steps. “Large-Scale Automated Aerospace Assembly: Is It Feasible?” will explore these issues as well as the culture change required for large-scale adoption of automated assembly methods including a number of proactive tactics that can be employed to improve the “automatability” of aerospace manufacturing looking into the future.
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2:50-3:05
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Coffee Break
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3:05-3:15
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Additive versus Subtractive Manufacturing
Peter Zelinski, Senior Editor, Modern Machine Shop Magazine
Peter Zelinski talks about the growing relevance of additive manufacturing to CNC machine shops, mold suppliers and other established users of traditional material-subtraction processes for making parts.
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3:15-3:35
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Additive Manufacturing at GE Aviation
Dave Abbott, Staff Engineer, Laser Applications, GE Aviation
Dave Abbott will speak about the promise that GE Aviation sees in making engine components through additive metal manufacturing processes.
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3:35-3:55
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Additive Metals Manufacturing: A Growing Disruptive Technology
Greg Morris, CEO, Morris Technologies
The term ‘Additive Manufacturing’ has started to gain broader awareness across multiple industries and the public in general over the course of the past two years. These disruptive technologies are poised to change the way many parts will be designed and manufactured, and in the process, will be responsible for colossal shifts in the competitive landscape for a number of companies. During this session, a specific focus on additive metals will be presented, with a review of the current state of the technologies, how it fits with traditional manufacturing and general applications where additive metals is uniquely being applied and leveraged to create competitive advantage in a real commercial environment.
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3:55-4:15
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The Future of Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace
Michale W. Hayes, Technical Lead Engineer, Additive Manufacturing, Boeing Research & Technology
The Boeing Company has been an early user and a large advocate in the implementation of current Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies in Aerospace and other markets. The AM industry is beginning to revolutionize the design and manufacturing thought process, especially with regards to products with low volume rates. Compared to other manufacturing processes, AM are still very young and more work is required to realize its full potential. But, the AM processes and associated material selections are maturing at an unprecedented rate. Not only the United States, but all of the industrial nations are investing in the capability of these technologies. This presentation will discuss the history of AM within The Boeing Company and examines where AM needs to go in order to support Boeing’s future plans.
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4:15-4:35
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Plastic Laser Sintering
Toshiki Niino, Ph. D., Professor, The University of Tokyo
In this presentation, research activity about preheat-free process and other topics concerning plastic laser sintering at the University of Tokyo is introduced, and the future of plastic laser sintering as part production method will be discussed.
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4:35-5:00
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Closing Remarks
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6:00-8:00
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Networking Event at the House of Blues
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