Please note: ARC's Bangalore Forum has been postponed, we will announce new dates as soon as we can.
ARC's Sixth India Forum
Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Discrete Industries
November 21-22, 2008 - Bangalore, India
Various global developments, such as the crisis in the global financial markets, economic slowdown in developed countries, and increase in commodity prices, are shackling the growth of the Indian economy. Driven by these global negative sentiments and worrisome inflationary pressures, consumers in India have reasons to become cautious in their discretionary spending. While this trend could potentially affect the growth prospects of the discrete industry in the country, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are optimistic of maintaining the growth momentum in industries such as aerospace, automotive, capital equipment, consumer products, defense, electronics, high technology, medical equipment, and others.
The country’s fundamentals, which have contributed to India’s economic expansion in recent years, are still strong. With increasing disposable incomes among India’s expanding middle class, the demand-side pull remains strong in the country. This has contributed to the growth of the discrete industry resulting in the country emerging as a demand-spurred investment driven economy, but this scenario is changing. While these factors would continue to spur the demand for wide range of products, such as automotive, consumer packaged products, communication and entertainment equipment, medical equipment, and white goods, among others, captains of the industry must initiate steps to sustain the end user demand. They must recognize that their main challenge is not so much the declining demand, but their ability to spur the demand further while protecting their margins, by addressing escalating energy and input costs. They have to cut costs along the entire supply chain and the design-manufacture-maintain cycle. Manufacturers must recognize that consumer-spending is sustainable only with falling average selling prices. This means that suppliers must continually discover new ways to reduce costs and to achieve efficiencies throughout their supply chains and their Design-Operate-Maintain cycles. Manufacturers must increase their investments in systems and solutions and adopt best practices that help them achieve productivity improvements.
Manufacturers must shorten design and engineering cycle times, reduce the iterative actions necessary to take a product from concept stage to market, and design products for manufacturability, maintainability, and quality. They must invest in technologies that help them achieve efficiencies along the entire supply chain. Successful companies achieve these goals by leveraging digital manufacturing, third-party product engineering services, and collaborative production management systems, backed up by state-of-the-art factory automation, supply chain management, and product lifecycle management and digital manufacturing systems. OEMs must have state-of-the-art plant floor automation systems and integrate them with all other decision support systems.
This two day forum focusing on discrete industry challenges and solutions will be attended by industry thought leaders. They will share their experiences and strategies for success in these challenging but opportune times. This event will bring together key decision makers and thought leaders from various manufacturing industries, along with suppliers of automation systems and manufacturing IT solutions, to discuss the latest trends, case studies, and best practices relating to success in a global marketplace. The knowledge transfer will come from case study presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and peer-to-peer networking.
Presentations will highlight how manufacturers are leveraging product lifecycle management and digital manufacturing solutions. Speakers will also discuss how they integrate plant-level systems with enterprise solutions and deploy collaborative production management systems to achieve continuous productivity improvements and supply chain efficiencies. Independent design and engineering service providers will discuss how they are helping many OEMs successfully launch product upgrades and new products, how they can help design products for manufacturability, and reduce costs through value engineering. There will be workshops on integration challenges, interoperability issues, wireless in automation, industrial networks, vision systems, and such others.
Attendees will have the opportunity to:
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Gather intelligence on strategies that will help your company be performance-driven and flexible
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Find out about approaches that will help you achieve operational excellence and emerge best-in-class
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Learn how to achieve collaboration and synchronization between the plant floor and the boardroom
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Understand how to use digital manufacturing and innovative technologies to reduce time-to-market
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Discover how to exploit global resources throughout your value chain
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Hear from your peers how they have improved profitability by integrating production and business systems
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Network with top industry executives
Join us in Banagalore to get guidance from global industry leaders on helping you develop your own winning strategy. Learn from the strategic thinking of others and leave with perspectives and ideas for your own team. Whether you are a manufacturer or a technology supplier, you cannot afford to miss this event!