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AMERICAN AUTOMOTIVE SUMMIT 2019

SEPTEMBER 16–17, 2019

MGM GRAND DETROIT • DETROIT, MI

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PROGRAM

American Automotive Summit 2019 Program • Page 1

CARLO MATERAZZO

Head, World Class Manufacturing

REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING BREAKFAST

CHAIR’S WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

BILL FOY

Senior Vice President of Engineering

OPENING KEYNOTE WORLD CLASS MANUFACTURING RESHAPING THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY LANDSCAPE

• What digital, technological, and soft skills are needed to stay ahead right now

• People based challenges and solutions around networked senses and IoT, increased data collection and increased efficiencies through loss recognition

• Core steps and pitfalls in engaging your workforce to provide improved opportunities for the plant and their jobs while providing a sense of ownership

• Case Study: How FCA took a 77-year-old facility and developed its first World Class Manufacturing Facility of 2019

PLENARY AN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IN FLUX: DISCUSSING THE IMPACTS OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

• How is automotive driving towards digitization and industry 4.0

• How CASE is changing the core business model:

• Connectivity

• Autonomous driving

• Shared mobility

• Electrification

• How relationships with suppliers are shifting as new technologies emerge

• Where are new investments taking place?

7:00 am – 8:00 am

8:00 am – 8:10 am

8:10 am – 8:45 am

8:45 am – 9:20 am

PROGRAM DAY ONE

MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS CHAIR

* JOIN US FOR THE PRE-EVENT HAPPY HOUR SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AT 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

QUALITY CHAIR

DONEEN MCDOWELL

Executive Director,

Manufacturing

DESIGN AND ENGINEERING CHAIR

Sponsored by:

DR. DAVID COLE

Chairman

PAUL LINDEN

Advanced Technologies Body

Engineering, Product

Development


10:00 am – 11:40 am

PRE-ARRANGED 1-2-1 BUSINESS MEETINGS AND REFRESHMENTS

PLENARY HOW AI-ENABLED PROCESS PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION CAN ASSIST IN REDUCING DEFECTS AND REWORKS

• What data is required to get meaningful results from AI on an ongoing basis?

• Adjusting the process parameters to decrease the number of errors in the production process

• Discussing the results of AI-enabled process parameter optimization deployment in stud welding and grey-iron casting environments

• Assisting AI in the manufacturing environment by digitizing and automating different processes

9:20 am – 9:55 am

FRANS CRONJE

CEO and Co-Founder

11:45 am – 12:20 pm

MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS DISCUSSING THE LATEST MATERIALS,

ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING RESEARCH

• Maintaining partnerships between traditional

OEMs and technology companies

• Applying R&D to help drive operational

performance and industry innovation

• Maintaining industry leadership with a customer

-centric focus

• What is changing in stamping, assembly and

powertrain operations?

• Taking manufacturing to the next step: self-

driving technology and commercial-grade hybrid

vehicles

QUALITY DEVELOPING A COLLABORATIVE CULTURE THAT

PUTS PROBLEM-SOLVING FIRST

• Strategies and techniques to improve your root

cause analysis processes

• Upskilling your management teams to create an

organizational culture that emphasizes problem-

solving above all else

• Stop rushing the process: implementing the

proper steps to reach a key decision

DESIGN AND ENGINEERING NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: HOW TO FORM

AND MANAGE YOUR CREATIVE TEAM

• Evaluation of data and AI software technologies

as their participation becomes necessary

• Creating a network of partners who can think

globally and work locally

• Regulation disparities with AI

• Ensuring your organization’s continued product

development efforts as new players constantly

encroach on market share

ANTONIO CESARIA

Executive VP Magna

Mechatronics

JILL REDMON

GVP, Quality, Seating RAMON KUCZERA

SVP, Engineering


1:05 pm – 2:05 pm

THE IMPACT OF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ON

PROFIT AND CUSTOMER SERVICE

LUNCH AND LEARN ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSIONS

Benefit from additional learning by joining a moderated round-table discussion on pressing issues in the industry. Choose from:

Seating is limited, so please sign up early. Sessions will start at 12:25 PM and run for one hour. Additional seating will be provided if you would prefer to discuss other

topics.

EXAMINING THE LATEST PRODUCTION

CONSIDERATIONS FOR HEAVY TRUCK SUPPLIERS:

DRIVELINES, DRIVE AXELS AND ELECTRIFICATION

DEVELOPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF

MANUFACTURING TALENT

PREEMPTIVE PLANNING OF RISK MANAGEMENT

FOR NEW PRODUCT INNOVATIONS

DISCUSSING THE IMPORTANCE OF LIGHTWEIGHT,

PRODUCTION STRATEGY AND ELECTRIFICATION

COST-EFFECTIVE AND VIABLE AUTOMOTIVE

MANUFACTURING PROCESS WITH 3DP

12:25 pm – 1:00 pm

WORKSHOP AUTOMATION IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

• Expanding core competencies in areas ranging

from the automotive industry to mobility

• Mastering the design of flexible and efficient

production processes

• Creating smart production systems, combined

with flexible logistics systems

• Re-defining areas of development with industry

4.0 and future-oriented solutions

• Coping with developments around demographic

change and data-driven production

WORKSHOP PROPELLING AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

INNOVATION WITH 3D PRODUCTION

• What are the trends and drivers leading the

industry toward 3D production?

• Discussing applications of HP's Multi Jet Fusion

Technology

• How this technology is helping customers

accelerate their digital manufacturing journey

• Enabling customers to upload designs and

produce production-grade metal parts in large

quantities

• Taking advantage of the design freedom,

superior economics, speed and industrial-grade

quality

• Case study: Rapid prototyping of industrial-grade

metal parts and components for Daimler Trucks

North America

WORKSHOP BUILDING THE FACTORY OF THE FUTURE: IS YOUR

FACILITY PREPARED FOR AUTOMATION

• Boosting assembly line productivity in the first

year

• Improving overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)

in your core machine area

• Achieving a more future-oriented facility to

expand your market growth, expanding globally

through a smart connected environment

TBA

JEFF STADLER

Director, Engineered Solutions

ANA ALMEIDA

VP, Ford and GM Customer

Business Units JAMES TAYLOR

VP, Rear Drivetrain

DARIN MILLER

Sr. VP America Automotive -

Bearings

PAUL LINDEN



Development

TBA


2:10 pm – 2:45 pm

MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS EXPLORING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES DRIVING

AUTOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE: LIGHTWEIGHTING,

ELECTRIFICATION AND AUTOMATED DRIVING

SOLUTIONS

• Discussing the evolution from traditional vehicle

technologies to the latest cutting-edge

innovations at Dura Automotive Systems

• What are considerations of engineering,

manufacturing and purchasing teams in the

vehicle development and design process?

• Ensuring connectivity between vehicle

performances and subsystems

• How lightweight technologies can be applied by

car makers:

• Ultra-lightweight body structures

• Chassis and suspension systems

• Battery trays, etc.

• Examining the benefits of these new

technologies in relation to reduced vehicle

energy consumption and overall profitability for

fleet operators and consumers

• Best techniques to produce these technologies

with BOM cost and cost reduction in mind

• Exploring DURA’s overall innovation, electronics

engineering and advanced manufacturing

strategy to meet industry demand

QUALITY RECOGNIZING THE VALUE OF REAL TIME DATA

AND LEVERAGING IT TO MAKE EFFECTIVE QUALITY

DECISIONS

• Transitioning into a 'culture of data' approach,

leaving the 'culture of quality' approach behind

• Driving a 'data first' quality initiative by selecting

the right technologies and tools

• Employing advanced analytics to make data-

driven decisions

• Cultivating debate and collaboration as part of

the everyday decision-making processes

KREG KUKOR

VP, Quality

DESIGN AND ENGINEERING HOW TECHNICAL COMPLIANCE FITS INTO

CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING PRODUCTS AND

TECHNOLOGIES

• Examining new development possibilities and

ways to optimize processes

• Navigating the complexity of regulatory

requirements and ongoing developments in the

automotive industry

• Adjusting and improving a Compliance

Management System

• Addressing specific risks associated with the

product development process to ensure

compliance

• How traditional compliance elements apply in

the product development space

2:50 pm – 3:25 pm

WORKSHOP HOW AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS CAN DRIVE

RAPID PROJECT DELIVERY AND REDUCE COST

• Discussing key strategies to optimize operational

costs through plant layout planning

• Decreasing project capital costs through

engineering and re-design concepts

• Examining the necessary steps to leading a

successful plant expansion for OEMs and

suppliers to achieve their target production date

• How can automotive manufacturers reduce

errors, improve quality and save money with a

fully integrated BIM environment?

WORKSHOP HOW AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS CAN

BENEFIT FROM STANDARDIZED QUALITY

MANAGEMENT

• Examining how the automotive industry could

benefit from having one consolidated set of OEM

CSR requirements

• How complex and redundant QMS requirements

negatively impact operational efficiencies,

relationships and the ability to respond to

quality-related events

• How a single set of requirement indicates could

create an opportunity for collaboration in

addressing impediments to optimum quality

• Overcoming resistance to change from OEM

through Tier N

WORKSHOP HOW TO EFFECTIVELY INTEGRATE 3D PRINTING

INTO YOUR BROADER MANUFACTURING

STRATEGY

• How to move beyond rapid prototyping

• Exploring how 3D printing can be used in

conjunction with traditional manufacturing

processes

• Reviewing the importance of starting small and

scaling up gradually

• Examining the long term cost savings that will

result from correctly integrating additive

manufacturing into your broader manufacturing

strategy

SANJAY SINGH

EVP and Chief Technology

Officer

MARKUS HARTMANN

VP, Technical Compliance, Mer-

cedes-Benz Research & Devel-

opment

TBA

BRANDON DAVIS

VP, Operations & General

Manager


3:30 pm – 4:50 pm


INNOVATION SPOTLIGHT DIGITIZE TO THRIVE: BRILLIANT MANUFACTURING AND QUALITY AS A BETTER WAY FORWARD

• Manufacturing quality products to ensure customer satisfaction and higher profitability

• Linking hands-on quality engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, distribution and services into a truly scalable system

• Examining the metrics when planning factory optimization

• Maximizing plant floor efficiency with best techniques synchronizing plant floor production

• Putting the power in the hands of your decision maker and observing real-time data in error-proofing

4:55 pm – 5:30 pm

JEFF MCLEAN

Director

5:30 pm – 6:05 pm

PANEL DISCUSSION REINVENTING THE RELATIONSHIP MODEL BETWEEN SUPPLIERS AND OEMS: WORKING TO OPTIMIZE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCIES, COST AND SPEED-TO-

MARKET

• Mastering digital innovation within manufacturing to maximize the bottom line

• Discussing industrialization, agility and taking action within the evolving automotive industry

• Changing manufacturing processes on the shop floor with automation, AI, AR and ML

• Developing strategies to meet demand while balancing expansion and quality

• Sharing responsibility for potential product liability, warrant and recall claims

6:05 pm – 6:50 pm

DAVE KUNSELMAN

CEO

JOHN SAVONA

VP North America

Manufacturing

PLENARY LESSONS OF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ON THE REGIONAL PLANT FLOOR

• Delivering accountability-based leadership to your teams

• How to balance daily operations and long-term strategy while supporting employees

• Analyzing whether concurrently cutting costs, addressing the skills gap and retaining talent is possible

• Building top-down capabilities for continuous improvement and customer satisfaction


CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS

NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION

6:50 pm – 7:00 pm

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS CHAIR QUALITY CHAIR

DONEEN MCDOWELL

Executive Director,

Manufacturing


DR. DAVID COLE

Chairman

PAUL LINDEN



Development


CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS

OPENING KEYNOTE DRIVING PERFORMANCE THROUGH END TO END VALUE STREAMS

• End to end value chain cost drivers identification and elimination

• Optimal P&L management and short term vs long term performance objectives settings

• Building successful supplier-OEM relationships at all levels as a key success factor for value chain performance

• Human factors in delivering performance industrial business in knowledge era

7:00 am – 8:00 am

8:05 am – 8:15 am

8:15 am – 8:50 am

PROGRAM DAY TWO

NETWORKING BREAKFAST WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE

Enjoy breakfast refreshments and informal networking in the Exhibition Hall. We also invite our attendees to network at a Women in Leadership Roundtable with

discussion from extraordinary women leaders in engineering, manufacturing, operations, production and EHS. Seating is limited, so please sign up early.

SHERRY VASA

EVP, Human Resources,

Sustainability and Corporate

Communication

KELLY DIPUCCHIO

Executive Director, Global

Manufacturing Engineering

Program Management

JILL REDMON

GVP, Quality, Seating

ANA ALMEIDA

VP, Ford and GM Customer

Business Units


DONEEN MCDOWELL

Executive Director,

Manufacturing


DR. DAVID COLE

Chairman

PAUL LINDEN



Development

ANU RATHNINDE

President and Managing Director, Electrical Distrubution Systems, Asia Pacific

LINDA TALIAFERRO

VP, Global Quality

JENNIFER MCKHEEN

VP, Global GM Business


PLENARY DRIVING OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCES THROUGH DEFINITIVE FACTORY AUTOMATION

• How to maintain continuous improvement while optimizing costs

• Maintaining product development efforts to enhance future growth

• How lightweighting has impacted quality and manufacturing processes

• Avoiding over-automating of your manufacturing processes

• Case Study: The harmonious balance of automation, technology and talent

8:50 am – 9:25 am

PLENARY CREATING THE ULTIMATE DRIVING EXPERIENCE: EMPOWERING DRIVERS ON THE ROAD WITH AI POWERED NATURAL INTERACTION TECHNOLOGY

• Building a vehicle for sheer driving pleasure with safety and emission

• Driving efforts towards process automation with automatic software detecting instruction

• Becoming smarter, more agile and plugged into the evolving IoT

• Increasing the speed of adoption with quicker evaluation and development

• Training workers for the future of auto manufacturing with systems integration experience

9:25 am – 10:00 am

10:05 am – 11:25 am


11:30 am – 12:05 pm

QUALITY PROMOTING FUNCTIONAL EXCELLENCE FOR

PROCUREMENT OPTIMIZATION

• Examining product cost reduction and

substitution in the early stages of the design

cycle

• Embedding value sourcing across all functions to

encourage sourcing-driven design changes

• Selecting material based on cost, availability,

costs of spare parts and servicing and supplier

risk

• Reducing complexity in production and supply

chain processes

KEVIN COONS

Director, Commodities

Purchasing and Value

Engineering

DESIGN AND ENGINEERING DEVELOPING A GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY

TO HELP COMMERCIALIZE INNOVATION

• What does technological disruption look like in

the automotive industry?

• Overcoming major challenges and opportunities

to innovate in the auto sector

• Examining the keys to creating a successful

global technology strategy

• Developing a methodology to quantify the

customers willingness-to-pay

• Moving away from cost-plus of commodities to

value-based of differentiators

• Case study: Metalsa's Next Generation Frame

Program

SEAN FLEMING

Chief Technology Officer

MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS IMPROVING YOUR ENTERPRISE'S BOTTOM LINE

ON A GLOBAL SCALE

• Remaining competitive in the current Geo-

political climate (NAFTA vs. USMCA)

• Understanding how tariffs and escalating trade

tensions will effect OEM/Supplier relations

• Reconfiguring supply chains to adapt to

changing market preferences

• Working with suppliers to optimize their

manufacturing footprints and fine-tune their

product launches to minimize light price

increases

JENNIFER MCKHEEN

VP, Global GM Business

PAT D'ERAMO

President and CEO


12:10 pm – 12:45 pm

WORKSHOP BUILDING BEST PRACTICES TO DRIVE

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE ON THE PLANT

FLOOR

• Examining three components that are critical to

any manufacturing team’s success

• Discussing the best and works decisions a

leader can make on the plant floor

• Discussing remote workforce management for

global organizations

• How day-to-day operations are shifting with

automation

• Scaling up for manufacturing capacity

WORKSHOP INCREASING MANUFACTURING EFFICIENCY WITH

DIGITALLY CONNECTED 3D METROLOGY AND

PRODUCT ENGINEERING

• Leveraging existing PLM systems to provide

quality control teams with efficient digital data

storage solutions

• Benefitting product engineering teams by

managing access to 3D measurement real-time

data, improving manufacturing processes

• Digitally connecting quality control teams to

product engineering teams

WORKSHOP HOW AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS CAN DRIVE

RAPID PROJECT DELIVERY AND REDUCE COST

• Discussing key strategies to optimize operational

costs through plant layout planning

• Decreasing project capital costs through

engineering and re-design concepts

• Examining the necessary steps to leading a

successful plant expansion for OEMs and

suppliers to achieve their target production date

• How can automotive manufacturers reduce

errors, improve quality and save money with a

fully integrated BIM environment?

BRANDON DAVIS

VP, Operations & General

Manager

12:50 pm – 1:50 pm

LUNCH AND LEARN ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSIONS

Benefit from additional learning by joining a moderated round-table discussion on pressing issues in the industry. Choose from:

Seating is limited, so please sign up early. Sessions will start at 12:25 PM and run for one hour. Additional seating will be provided if you would prefer to discuss other

topics.

IMPROVING YOUR OEE WITH INFORMATION,

DECISION AND ACTION FOR PRODUCTIVE

MAINTENANCE

SOURCING CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR

AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS

MASTERING THE DESIGN OF THE FLEXIBLE AND

EFFICIENT PRODUCTION PROCESS

MASTERING THE DESIGN OF THE FLEXIBLE AND

EFFICIENT PRODUCTION PROCESS

JEFF MCLEAN

Director

TBA

JESSE MELENDEZ

Director, Marketing & Business

Development

TBA

INNOVATIVE ERGONOMIC, SAFETY AND 5S

SOLUTIONS FOR THE FAST-PACED WORKFORCE

TBA

HOW AI IS CHANGING THE FUTURE OF THE

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

TBA

ROBOTICS PROCESS AUTOMATION (RPA) AS A

CRITICAL INVESTMENT TO DRIVE EFFICIENCY AND

DIGITAL DELIVERY

TBA


1:55 pm – 2:30 pm

MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS TALENT MANAGEMENT AS A DRIVER FOR LEAN

• Aligning procedures and people to minimize

waste

• Understanding your unique culture to optimize

lean

• Improving the bottom line by increasing your

team's visibility

• Discussing the impact of continuous

improvement when attracting new talent

QUALITY MOVING TO SMART AUTOMOTIVE

MANUFACTURING WITH STANDARDIZATION

• Standardizing your quality management systems

and manufacturing process to:

• decrease complexity

• remove redundancy

• increase efficiency

• Selecting the right TS requirements to focus on

maximizing quality and reliability

• Understanding the financial implications of

neglecting your QMS

• Creating an audit schedule based on

performance

DESIGN AND ENGINEERING ALGORITHM-DRIVEN DESIGN: HOW AI IS

CHANGING DESIGN

• Leveraging AI and big data to design and build

the cars of tomorrow, using data collected from

the cars of today

• How AI driven design can reduce raw material

requirements without sacrificing structural

integrity

• Using AI to liberate human capital and

streamline your design and engineering

processes BILLY TAYLOR

Global Director, Diversity and

Inclusion

HENRY REISNER

President

INNOVATION SPOTLIGHT REDEFINING THE COMMUTER CAR AND MANUFACTURING THE ULTIMATE DRIVING EXPERIENCE

• Reimagining the automobile: manufacturing something smaller, better and indispensable

• Designing and engineering a more efficient, cost-effective, environmentally friendly and leading edge EV

• Racing towards mass-adoption of cheap electric vehicles by simplifying production processes

• How does electrification impact supply chain, manufacturing and engineering?

2:35 pm – 3:10 pm

CLOSING KEYNOTE BALANCING MANUFACTURING, QUALITY AND ENGINEERING AS PROCESSES ADAPT TO DRIVE OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

• Ensuring cohesion between departments to maximize output while maintaining quality standards

• OpEx and CI best practices to implement internally and externally

• Examining the cross development of programs to prepare manufacturing and quality teams for a new stream of products

• Building supply chain visibility to ensure consistency in your global operations

3:10 pm – 3:45 pm


3:45 pm – 4:30 pm

4:30 pm – 4:40 pm

CHAIR’S REMARKS AND DELEGATE SURVEY PRIZE DRAW


DONEEN MCDOWELL

Executive Director,

Manufacturing


DR. DAVID COLE

Chairman

PAUL LINDEN



Development

PANEL DISCUSSION BREAKING DOWN SILOS WITH THIRD PARTY PARTNERS TO DRIVE PRODUCTIVITY AND GROWTH

• How can auto manufacturers increase sales even as the market fluctuates?

• Analyzing the fundamental challenges and disruptions for automakers

• Three economic indicators manufacturers should be focused on:

• vehicle miles traveled

• consumer sentiment

• interest rates

• Addressing trends for budgetary spend in 2019-2020

• Overcoming trade wars by leveraging industry-specific data analysis to anticipate market trends

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