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NACFAM's 20TH ANNIVERSARY NATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE 
  

 October 6-7, 2009 - Sheraton National Hotel - Arlington, VA 

Attendees were provided two opportunities:
  • Provide input for building one voice for presentation to Ron Bloom, the first White House Senior Counselor for Manufacturing Policy, and key Congressional leaders about the policy issues most important to manufacturing.
  • Learn how to take advantage of the cost savings and business growth opportunities offered by Sustainable Manufacturing.   

Agenda (PDF)

Oct 7: NACFAM Senate Roundtable (PDF)

OCTOBER 16 MEETINGS

On October 16th, NACFAM met with Ron Bloom, President Obama’s recently announced “Senior Counselor for Manufacturing Policy,” and reviewed with him the recommendations that came out of the October 6th & 7th NACFAM Annual meeting plus subsequent additional refinements from attendees.
 
Mr. Bloom understands well the importance of manufacturing to the economy and wants to have impact on the ground in practical pragmatic ways to quickly reinvigorate U.S. manufacturing to make it more globally competitive and create well-paying sustainable jobs.  He is very interested in NACFAM bringing projects to him to make such things happen, and NACFAM is also positioned to provide additional inputs to him as our members develop new points.
 
The same day NACFAM also met with two key members of the staff of Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) who are working on his proposed legislation for a “Quadrennial Manufacturing Strategy” as he mentioned in our October 7th meeting.  This is a “grand strategy” approach that contains most of the recommendations NACFAM proposed. Since it will incorporate some additional ideas from the Bloom presentation and our meeting discussion with them, they said they will continue to ask for our feedback and support of their legislation draft.
 
Thus, from our various meetings in the last few weeks it is obvious that NACFAM is appropriately positioned with respect to the current administration’s views and with respect to Congress and the various government agencies.  The input provided in our Annual Meeting is very consistent with those who are thinking “Grand Strategy” and also gives us a framework for proposing projects for those who need immediate action.  Frankly it seems to us that both are needed and NACFAM’s strategy of doing projects to help inform its policy recommendations seems especially important.

Oct 16: Presentation to Ron Bloom (PDF)
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Oct 14-15: DSN Innovations 3rd Annual 2009 NCM Forum 

 

DSN Innovations will be hosting the 2009 NCM Forum at the Pittsburgh, PA Marriott Center City. Come hear real-world case studies from industry leaders who are overcoming distributed manufacturing challenges through Network Centric Manufacturing (NCM). Learn how they’re reducing costs and time while increasing agility, collaboration and visibility across geographically-dispersed supply chains.

NCM is the rapid assembly and seamless coordination of dynamic supplier networks to accelerate production and reduce costs. Previous forums helped establish the framework for NCM – this year the forum will talk about the results now being achieved. 2009 NCM Forum Speakers Include:

  • Mr. Tom Burbage, Executive VP and General Manager of Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)
  • Mr. David Galuska, Senior Vice President, Module Centers and Operations, Pratt & Whitney
  • Mr. Paul Gosling, Vice President, Global Procurement and Supply Chain Defense, Oshkosh Corporation
  • Dr. Bill Rouse, Executive Director, Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Dr. Susan Smyth, Director, Manufacturing Research Lab, General Motors R&D, Chief Scientist for Manufacturing, General Motors Corporation

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