Business and Technical Strategies for Metal Processing Industries...to Compete in Today's Global Economy

May 26, 2004
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Olin Hall 107

Agenda

Time	Event
7:45 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m.	Welcome and Overview of the Metal Processing Institute (MPI) Diran Apelian
8:30 a.m.	Metal Casters' Global Positioning Strategies (GPS) to Find Their Future Dan Twarog (NADCA)
9:10 a.m.	Briggs & Stratton: Die casting... a core competency? Vince Shiely (Briggs & Stratton Corp.)
9:50 a.m.	Metal and the American Manufacturing Base Guy Briggs (General Motors Corp.)
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:50 a.m.	A Mid-Size Automotive Metal Manufacturing Company View of the Automotive World - Past, Present and Future David Schaefer (Cloyes Europe GmbH)
11:30 a.m.	Building a Global P/M Company Donald Spence (GKN Sinter Metals)
12:30 p.m.	Lunch Campus Center, Odeums A & B
1:30 p.m.	Presentation of Awards Merton C. Flemings Awards Ray H. Witt Awards
2 p.m	Understanding the Chinese Manufacturing Environment Duane Becknell (Ford Motor Co.)
2:40 p.m.	Ipsen International Process Heating Manufacturing in China Mario Ciampini (Ipsen International Inc.)
3:20 p.m.	China - Metal Processing Capital of the World in the 21st Century (Case Study - Bicycle Industry) Donald Graber (Huffy, Inc.)
4 p.m.	Innovation through Partnership Kesh Narayanan (National Science Foundation)
4:40 p.m.	Wrap-up
5 p.m.	Adjourn

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