LFM-SDM Web Conference

Flexible Manufacturing Summit

This Summit (along with the December 6th Lean in Product Development Summit) are outgrowths of this September's Industry Faculty Research Forum held at MIT to facilitate matching faculty research interests with key company challenges. The goal of the Forum was to bring together faculty and industry for closer linkage in their research and collaboration with the expectation that we will see LFM internship projects and SDM thesis projects with greater impact for all stakeholders. These summit sessions will focus on topics that were generated at the Forum in two key areas of Lean in Product Development and Flexible Manufacturing. Alumni interested in these topics are welcome to join in the upcoming web casts. This would be particularly helpful if you plan to be an advisor/sponsor in an upcoming project.

The LFM Alumni Council meeting is open to all LFM Alumni. Meetings are held once a month in the effort to understand the needs of the alumni. Key Initiatives are discussed each month, and there is always time to bring up new issues important to the alumni community.

To Attend, you must RSVP to Alison McCaffree.

Topics:

1. Product and Process Design Flexibility
2. Designing The Factory for Flexibility
3. Flexibility Tools
4. Quantifying Flexibility

Instructions on how to participate in this web conference:

1. Join the web conference at: http://www.vspan.com/, select "Join a Webconference." Use the Participant Code: 19247030. Please type in your name and company when prompted.
2. Join the phone conference call at:  800-573-0319  (International
   number: 610-312-0239) and use the same Participant Code: 19247030.
   If you have not participated in a WebEx conference before, you can test
   your computer setup by joining a WebEx's live demo (WebEx Overview) anytime during business hours (9am - 7pm ET) at http://try.webex.com/mk/get/DailyDemo.  The number for technical help is 888-283-8550 at any time, during your test or during the actual conference.