Manufacturing
Issue No. 21 - February/March 2005
Making a smart future
International Manufacturing Leaders Forum 2005
If your business has anything to do with automotive manufacture, it would be a mistake to miss the International Manufacturing Leaders Forum 2005.
The second such event to be hosted by the University of SA’s Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Research, IMLF 2005 will see more than 70 research papers presented by globally recognised authorities in leading edge manufacturing techniques.
It’s the kind of discussion South Australia needs, both to examine options in a highly competitive global marketplace and to meet the co-located partners any business needs to succeed nowadays.
"To compete in today’s global economy, firms cannot go it alone," IMLF speaker Bob Buderi says.
"They must plan and innovate in multiple dimensions – short term, long term, research, development, manufacturing, marketing and more – and they must forge new partnerships within industry, academia, and even amongst competitors."
A star-studded show includes Chuck Agne (director supplier management and procurement, integrated defence systems, for The Boeing Company, California), Bob Buderi (editor at large, MIT Technical Review), Eberhard Stotko (chair, European Automotive Initiative Group), Laurie Sparke (head of Holden Innovation) and Johnsee Lee (president, Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan).
A late change of keynote speaker gave organisers some heart flutter until IBM said it was replacing the initial speaker with Peter Robison, the...
