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Fireside Chat: Advancing the Production System
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Fireside Chat: Advancing the Production System

Paisley Matthews is the Vice President of Manufacturing and Safety for Boeing Defense, Space and Security and a member of the Boeing Manufacturing Operations Council. In these roles, she is responsible for ensuring the Defense, Space & Security production system consistently operates in an integrated, lean and effective manner. In this session, Paisley will discuss integrating data visualization tools for better process visibility, as well as implementing Six Sigma methodologies to reduce defects, enhance product quality, and optimize processes for consistent outputs.

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3D Printing that Transforms Supply Chains: An Interview with HP’s David Woodlock
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3D Printing that Transforms Supply Chains: An Interview with HP’s David Woodlock

At North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit 2019 last month in Chicago we spoke with David Woodlock, an Engineering Manager with HP 3D Printing. HP has an enormous supply chain organization supporting a business that ships more than two printers and PCs every second. To improve productivity, HP has invested in additive manufacturing capabilities not for rapid prototyping, but to remove the need to physically move parts from one place to another. If every facility can 3D print the parts it needs when it needs them, huge simplifications are brought to supply chain and manufacturing operations. HP has found great success…

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One Little Part: Our Digital Transformation in Manufacturing

As part of the 2019 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit, Scott Schiller, HP 3D Printing’s VP, Global Head of Customer and Market Development, gave an in-depth interview on how Industry 4.0 solutions are changing the very nature of Integrated Business Planning. The full transcript of the interview is below, or you can download a PDF version. Tell us a little about how HP is using 3D printing technology to change its supply chain. At HP, we believe digital manufacturing can completely revolutionize major industries from auto to healthcare to heavy industry, and that core digital technologies like 3D printing enable…

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Push Button Manufacturing: The Future of Making Things
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Push Button Manufacturing: The Future of Making Things

The nature of work is changing How can we remove the constraints on design that traditional manufacturing processes impose? What are the major catalysts for disruption that we are seeing? There is a convergence of new technologies in manufacturing and our goal is to make these available to everyone Our prediction: “As designed” will become “as built” with the push of a button — At the 2018 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit, Greg Fallon, Autodesk’s VP of Generative Design and Manufacturing Products, gave a breakfast briefing on Push Button Manufacturing. Afterwards he sat down for a follow up…

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