Schedule

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

1:00 pm - 7:00 pm[MC]2 Conference Registration (Bronze Foyer A)
6:00 pm - 8:00 pmOpening Reception (Crossroads)

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

7:00 am – 5:30 pm[MC]2 Conference Registration (Bronze Foyer A)
7:00 am – 8:00 amContinental Breakfast
8:00 am [MC]2 Welcome How to Get the Most Out of [MC]2 2013
Dave Edstrom, President & Chairman of the Board, MTConnect Institute
8:15 am – 9:00 am Keynote:
Manufacturing with Darwin, Moore and Metcalfe
Steve Fritzinger, Network Appliances, BBC - Technologist, Java Author & Economics Writer
9:00 am – 12:30 pmGENERAL SESSIONS (Bronze Ballroom)
9:00 am – 9:30 amDriving Change with MTConnect
John Turner, Director of Technology, FA Consulting & Technology
9:30 am – 10:00 amMTConnect: A Pragmatic Approach to Manufacturing
Dave Edstrom, President & Chairman of the Board, MTConnect Institute
10:00 am – 10:20 amMorning Break
10:20 am – 11:40 amThe Myths and Realities of What's Happening on Your Shop Floor
Customer Panelists: Mark Albert, Editor-in-Chief, Modern Machine Shop Magazine
Joel Neidig, Systems Engineer, ITAMCO
Nate Price, Production Manufacturing Engineer, Task Force Tips, Inc.
Roy Sweatman, President, Southern Manufacturing Technologies, Inc.
Pat Walsh, Vice President, Ehrhardt Tool and Machine Co., Inc.
Shop Floor Monitoring Software Panelists: Josh Davids, President, Scytec Consulting Inc.
Rick Caldwell, President & CEO, SCADAware
Will Sobel, President & CEO, System Insights
Ken Tock, President, MacKintok Information Architects & Designers
Moderators: David McPhail, President & CEO, Memex Automation Inc.
Dave Edstrom, President & Chairman of the Board, MTConnect Institute
11:40 am – 12:05 pmGeneral Session:
The Need for the Next Killer Manufacturing Technology/ Application
John Wilczynski, Program Manager, NCDMM
12:05 pm – 12:30 pmGeneral Session:
MTConnect Challenge - Creating Manufacturing Intelligence
Dr. John D. Russell, D.Sc., Program Manager, AFRL/RXMS
12:30 pm – 2:30 pmLunch & Exhibits (Grand Ballroom)
2:45 pm – 5:40 pm Technical Workshop (Colonade AB) and Sessions (Bronze Ballroom)
2:45 pm – 3:30 pmBusiness Session:
Exploring the Power of Linking [MTConnect + OEE = Profits]
Robert C. Hansen, R.C. Hansen Consulting, LLC
Technical Workshop:
MTConnect Architecture Overview as PREPARATION for Hands-On Labs
(Item Code: HANDSONLAB1)
Joel Neidig, Systems Engineer, ITAMCO
Dave Edstrom, President & Chairman of the Board MTConnect Institute
3:30 pm – 4:30 pmTechnical Workshop:
Adapters, Adapters, Adapters(Item Code: HANDSONLAB2)
Will Sobel, President & CEO, System Insights, Inc.
3:30 pm – 4:00 pmBusiness Session:
MTConnect Sensors: Anywhere and Everywhere

Panelists: Neil Desrosiers, Application Engineer/Developer, Mazak Corporation
Jim Hoffman, Principal Engineer, GE Aviation
Kang Lee, Intelligent Systems Division, NIST
Brian Sides, Director, Technology, Okuma America Corporation
Moderator: John Turner, Director of Technology, FA Consulting & Technology
4:00 pm – 4:30 pmBusiness Session:
How the Aerospace Industry Uses MTConnect
Panelists: Bill Blomquist, Manufacturing Engineer, Remmele Engineering Inc.
John L. Michaloski, NIST
Sid Venkatesh, Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing Company
Moderator: Paul Warndorf, V.P. Manufacturing Technology, AMT
4:30 pm – 4:50 pmAfternoon Break
4:50 pm – 5:25 pmGeneral Session:
Predicting the Future of Manufacturing by Inventing It
Courtney J. Hill, Consultant, CJ Hill Consulting Services
5:25 pm – 5:40 pmMTConnect Leadership Award Presentation
5:45 pm – 7:30 pm [MC]2 Reception and Exhibits (Grand Ballroom)
8:00 pmBirds of a Feather (BOF1), Topic TBD, (Pavilion B)
9:00 pmBirds of a Feather (BOF2), Topic TBD, (Pavilion B)

Thursday, April 11, 2013

7:00 am – 12:30 pm[MC]2 Conference Registration (Bronze Foyer A)
7:00 am – 8:00 amContinental Breakfast
8:00 am[MC]2 Welcome
Dave Edstrom, President & Chairman of the Board, MTConnect Institute
8:15 am – 9:00 amKeynote:
Processing Zetabytes: The Technologies Enabling Big Data and Analytics
John Meyer, Senior Technical Competitive Analyst, IBM Systems and Technology Group
9:10 am – 10:10 amTechnical Workshop:

Building Adapters Hands-On Lab (Item Code: HANDSONLAB3)

Will Sobel, President & CEO, System Insights
9:10 am – 9:40 amBusiness Session:
Empowering Power Savings with MTConnect
Amit Deshpande, Machining Systems Engineer, TechSolve, Inc.
Joel Neidig, Systems Engineer, ITAMCO
9:40 am – 10:10 amBusiness Session:
The Profits and Prophets of Interoperability
Panelist: Paul Hunkar, Consultant, DS Interoperability
ISO-13399 Panelist: Tom Muller, Manager-Innovation Ventures Group, Kennametal Inc.
DMSC Panelist: Fred Proctor, Controls Lead, NIST
Moderator: Paul Warndorf, V.P. Manufacturing Technology
10:10 am – 10:25 amMorning Break
10:25 am – 11:00 amBusiness Session:
Virtual Poka Yoke Solution
Eraldo Jannone da Silva, University of Sao Paulo
Technical Session:
How to Use the MTConnect-OPC UA Companion Specification
John L. Michaloski, Computer Scientist, NIST
Paul Hunkar, Consultant, DS Interoperability
11:00 am – 11:45 amBusiness Session:
Connecting the Future of Manufacturing
Douglas K. Woods, President, AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology
11:45 am – NoonWrap-up:
The Future of MTConnect Is Our Future

Dave Edstrom, President & Chairman of the Board, MTConnect Institute