Don Bell (WR-ALC), Sam Easley (Boeing), Ben Thompson (FRC-East), Rick Jarman (NCMS),

Rich Curless (MAG Industries), Lisa Phelps (Boeing)

Members of Volumetric Accuracy for Large Machine Tools (VALMT) project team collect the Defense Manufacturing Excellence Award at the 2009 Defense Manufacturing Conference.  It is the seventh such award for NCMS.  The Defense Manufacturing Excellence Awards are presented by the National Center for Advanced Technologies (NCAT) for outstanding cooperative efforts on technology development between government, industry and academia.

Prepare your organization for the future
The 2010 IW Bests Plants Conference program is carefully constructed to equip you with the knowledge and strategies to achieve your operational excellence goals and take your organization to the next level.

With over 25 sessions across 4 industry specific tracks, these sessions will render concrete solutions to your real-world operational issues. Session tracks include: continuous improvement 101, advanced continuous improvement, workforce development, and supply chain strategies.

Featured Keynote Speaker:

Rebuilding U.S. Manufacturing and Conquering Economic Problems
Daniel R. DiMicco
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Nucor Corporation

Featuring speakers from:

Speakers’ Lounge
Take advantage of this unique opportunity to meet with speakers after their session.

Additional ways to connect include:

•    Monday night welcome reception.
•    Tuesday evening Special Event.
•    Penton Manufacturing & Supply Chain Group Solutions Hall.

Don’t miss the 2010 IW Best Plants Conference.

Register at: www.IWBestPlants.com

If you have any questions, please contact Erika Bailey at 216-931-9512 or erika.bailey@penton.com

NCMS won the award for the best booth in the large booth category at the Symposium.  The NCMS booth showcased four of our collaborative project teams: Kinetic Spray, AP&IG, 3FAST, and CH-53E Readiness & Reliability.

The Marines won the booth competition in the military category.  This is noteworthy because NCMS produced their video and presentation that was the centerpiece of their booth.  This broad exposure of our capabilities is leading to new business from the show.

Watch the USMC Sense & Respond Video

In August, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) tapped NCMS Educational Services to produce high-impact promotional videos highlighting the Corps’ Sense and Respond Logistics initiative.

Watch Sense & Respond Video

The USMC Sense Respond Video recently debuted at the Department of Defense (DoD) Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona.

The video and project presentation created by NCMS helped garner the Marines the best booth award in the military category at the symposium. 

NCMS has the capability to create similar videos for your organization.  If you want help reaching your customers please contact: 

NCMS Educational Services General Manager Bill Chenevert at (734) 995-7989 or billc@ncms.org

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!!!

The 2010 AMT/NCMS Manufacturing Technology Forum will highlight new initiatives addressing “Green in Manufacturing”.  Guest speakers will discuss what is going on, what is needed and what you can expect in meeting new manufacturing requirements.  As in the past, you will also be provided presentations on R&D activities occurring throughout the world.

Don't miss this informative Forum!

AMT/NCMS Manufacturing Technology Forum

Energy & Innovation

March 30-31, 2010

Nashville, Tennessee

If you have any questions, please contact Sheila Kaplan at (703) 827-5274 or skaplan@AMTonline.org.

In August, the United States Marine Corps tapped NCMS Educational Services to produce a pair of high-impact promotional videos highlighting the Corps’ Sense and Respond Logistics initiative. “Sense and Respond is a robust new approach to tackling issues of maintenance, readiness, and lethality,” said Bob Appleton of R.W. Appleton & Associates, a chief project consultant. “It will allow the Marine Corps to be better prepared, quicker to the fight, and highly accountable for all equipment. We turned to NCMS to develop two short videos that communicate the value of this philosophy.” 

NCMS Educational Services is the multimedia development and knowledge transfer arm of the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences. “We have produced several exciting, kinetic videos for a wide array of clients in the past,” said Bill Chenevert, General Manager of Educational Services. “This time the team really took the project far beyond what anyone was expecting. Five days of location shooting, major special effects shots; it was our most ambitious video project yet.” 

The first video, debuted at the Modern Day Marine Symposium in late September, highlighted the four key elements of Sense and Respond: Asset Tracking, Serialized Item Management, Condition-Based Maintenance, and Total Lifecycle Management. Each of these foundational elements are triggered by the application of Item Unique Identifier (IUID) tags to all equipment. Once tagged, a simple hand scanner allows every end item to be tracked and monitored across its entire lifecycle, creating a holistic maintenance opportunity and a centralized data access point for all materiel.

The second video will debut at the DoD Maintenance Symposium in Phoenix on October 26-29, retelling the story of Sense and Respond and IUID as a backdrop to live presentations. “I cannot tell you what an incredible journey this has been thus far,” said Major Brian Spooner, Ground Ordnance Maintenance Officer for the Marine Corps. "I wish everyone could come to Phoenix to watch our team dazzle the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the DoD leadership, as well as the very senior leadership within all of the Armed Forces. We absolutely would not have been able to pull off such a professional product without the NCMS team.” 

Originally tasked with developing e-Learning tools for corporations, NCMS Educational Services has dynamically branched out into video and multimedia production, creative services, web development, and games-based learning applications.

For more information please contact:  

NCMS Program Manager Bill Chenevert at (734) 995-7989 or billc@ncms.org

Please stop by Booth 333 to see these member companies showcasing technology created using the NCMS collaborative process.

• REI Systems , complete predictive diagnostic and repair suite for aircraft
• Aspire Solutions, Inc., automated process & inspection guide.
• Spectro, Inc., FluidScan, quickly evaluates fluid quality using infrared spectroscopy
• Centerline, LTD., advanced kinetic spray repair process.

 For more information contact Debbie Lilu at debral@ncms.org or call (734) 995-7038.

In the aftermath of the bubble economy, America needs to shift resources from the debt-inflated finance and housing sectors to the productive economy.

As part of this long-term strategy, how do we revitalize manufacturing?

Join the editor and several contributors to a new study, Manufacturing a Better Future for America, published by the Alliance for American Manufacturing, to discuss ways to rebuild the foundation of the American economy by means of innovation, industrial policies and trade reform.

What do you think?  How do we as a nation revitalize manufacturing?