The MESA Unconference
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Your topics. Your discussions. Your Answers.
Tired of just sitting and listening at conferences?
With the new MESA Unconference on June 23rd, you can directly engage and learn about topics that you pick - and get answers to your most pressing challenges. At the Unconference, you can share and learn in an open, participatory environment. It is an intense multi-discussion, multi-room event with no script. Bring your ideas and desire to interact with peers - and test the brains and bounds of the MESA community. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is invited and welcome!
In this "confer and conquer" environment, you can present ideas or questions and discuss operations topics with other practitioners and subject matter experts in the spirit of MESA's mission - to provide an environment for the sharing of best practices. Leading industry experts, including members of the MESA Technical Committee, will be on hand to help facilitate discussions.
What kinds of topics?
Here's an example from a major battery manufacturer - how to deal with the challenges of operational excellence in an ultra high-volume production environment. Other ideas include ISA-95 implementations, cloud computing, virtual machines, Lean implementation in process production environments, and much more.
Tee up your topic ideas for the Unconference! E-mail your topic today to Gary Mintchell, Editor-in-Chief, Automation World and MESA Unconference Director.
MESA Unconference
The Unconference portion of the MESA International North American Conference is designed to be an open forum where participants can ask questions around specific topics and share their thoughts and experiences with their peers. There are three tracks, each facilitated by a team of experts in manufacturing operations management. Each team is interested in learning what the broader community is thinking. At the conference, attendees will be provided a means to suggest questions or topics of concern for the tracks they are interested in attending. The Unconference is held in three 45-minute blocks on Wednesday June 23 from 9 until 12.
Beyond Standards--Unlocking Your Operations Potential
The first track will be led by industry expert Charlie Gifford, who is Chair, ISA-95/MESA Best Practice Working Group and Chief Manufacturing Consultant, 21st Century Manufacturing Solutions LLC. Co-facilitators include Dr. Tim Thomasma, Capgemini Americas and Michael Grasley, Director, MES Consulting, ASECO Integrated Systems. The general topic is "Unlocking Your Operations' Potential."
• Potential specific topics include the following with final conversations determined by the participants' requests:
• ISA-95 Maturity Model Assessment and Migration Strategies
• Architectures for manufacturing operations master data. And who and how should it be governed?
• Applying SOA to manufacturing operations architectures
• B2MML Integration Patterns and Data Mapping
• Integration PLM, ERP and MOM in a Discrete Manufacturing Environment
• Integration of Manufacturing Intelligence with MOM
• ISA-95 Contextualized Operations Workflows for Industrial BPM
Metrics That Matter--Developing Metrics For Solving Business Problems
The second track is facilitated by industry analyst Julie Fraser, Chair of the MESA Metrics Committee and Principal Industry Analyst at Cambashi. Co-facilitators include John Jackiw of AltaVia Consulting and Darren Riley of Rockwell Automation. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss what metrics for performance measurement are important with the Metrics That Matter Working Group. Participants can discuss the MESA Metrics Guidebook and offer insights from thoughts and experiences about what practitioners need for using metrics for solving business problems.
Information Systems for Solving Sustainability Issues
One of the hottest topics from boardrooms to plants is how to achieve sustainable operations for both corporate responsibility and for manufacturing efficiency and profitability. Industry veteran Wayne Filichowski of AVS Systems, will facilitate this Unconference session on using Information Systems to achieve sustainability and eco-efficiency.
