Tuesday Afternoon, August 3

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Chair:

Michael Grieves, EDM, Co-Director, University of Michigan Product Lifecycle Management Development Consortium (PLM DC), College of Engineering and Principal, Core Strategies, LLC

Mike Grieves

John Crary, Chief Information Officer and Vice President, Lear Corporation

Mark O'Connell, President and Chief Executive Officer, MatrixOne, Inc.

Michael Richardson, Director of Engineering, Delphi Steering, Delphi Corporation

Charles Grindstaff, Executive Vice President, Products, UGS

Back to the Future

The time has long passed when the principals of the major functional areas were co-located and gathered to meet on a regular and continuous basis to coordinate the myriad of activities necessary to design, manufacture, and sell automobiles. Sheer growth in scale, globalization, and automotive complexity has resulted in a breakdown of this coordination and the building of silos of information, isolating functional areas. In order to get “back to the future” and recapture the information necessary for the functional areas to operate efficiently together, PLM will play a pivotal role. This session featured senior executives from different functional areas who presented the role of PLM from their viewpoint and explored the issues of informational requirements at the intersection of functional areas where the largest issues exist. In addition, since this issue is no longer an internal issue within an organization, the speakers presented their views on how the industry will need to change to reap the greatest benefits of PLM for all industry participants.

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