OMAC NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Jennifer Infantino
(919) 990-9287
jinfantino@omac.org
OMAC Symposium Finalizes Program
Research Triangle Park - (13 November 2007) The first Annual OMAC Integration and Operability Symposium will take place 28-29 November at the Boeing Future of Flight Aviation Center and the Hilton Garden in Everett, Washington.
The theme of the symposium is "Bridging the Gap between the Discrete and Process Industries" through improving integration by leveraging best practices and lessons learned, with integration through standards like those for CAM and CNC control, inspection, CAD definition, data packaging, process planning, and the automotive industry.
Attendees will work together to establish a collaboration and integration roadmap, creating a forum enabling better collaboration between the process and discrete industries via the OMAC Working Group.
Event highlights include Working Group meetings, a tour of the Boeing
787 Dreamliner Manufacturing Facility, case studies and presentations, breakout sessions, a social event for networking, and more.
The presentations for the symposium have been finalized and will contain presentations with titles like ""CNC-ERP Connectivity - Top Floor to Shop Floor", "ISA 88 Part 5: Modular Concepts for Automated Systems", "Enabling & Deploying Operational Performance", "Global Strategy and Scalable Architectures", "Training, Opening the Door behind the Door", "OMAC to THINC to Factory (The Red Queen Inference)", "'Swimming Upstream with Your Friends', Enabling and Implementing Open Standards for Manufacturing", "PLM / MES Integration -Closing the Loop from As-built to As-Designed", "On the Road to OMAC HMI Best Practices", and "Best Practices and Applications in Manufacturing IT."
Presenters include Sid Venkatesh, Isaac K. Opoku , Robert Maki, and David Odendahl, the Boeing Company; Dan Seger, Rockwell Automation; Rob Aleksa, Procter & Gamble; Jerry Yen, General Motors CCRW Group; Robert Hampton, Hampton Leadership Development, Inc; Bob Tain, Okuma; Dick Slanski and Al Bissmeyer, ARC Advisory Group; John Michaloski, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); and Erik Goode, Cargill.
Visit the OMAC Symposium website, www.omac.org/techsymp2007, to read descriptions of these presentations, to view a PDF of the event program, and to register. Registration is limited to 150 attendees, and is on a first come, first serve basis. For more information or to register, visit www.omac.org, email info@omac.org, or call 919-314-3900.
About OMAC
OMAC–The Open Modular Architecture Controls Users’ Group (www.omac.org) works to collectively derive common solutions for both technical and non-technical issues in the development, implementation, and commercialization of open, modular architecture control (OMAC) technologies, and to facilitate the accelerated development and convergence of industry and government developed OMAC technology guidelines to one set that satisfies common use requirements. OMAC has about 500 member representatives from end-user companies, OEM's, and technology providers and integrator companies. OMAC currently operates three Work Groups: Packaging Machinery, Manufacturing Infrastructure, and Machine Tool. OMAC is a charter member of The Automation Federation.
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