Event Details
Event Title:	Shaping the Future of Manufacturing
Start Date/Time:	6/3/2009  -  8:00am
End Date/Time:	6/3/2009  -  12:00pm
Location:	Illinois Institute of Technology Wheaton Campus 201 East Loop Road, Wheaton, IL 60187
Contact Info:	MEF: 630 305-0005; E-mail: info@MidwestEntrepreneursForum.org; Online Registration Problem please contact with Helen Yang at yhuaa@yahoo.com; or 630 705-9888
Description:	SHAPING the FUTURE of MANUFACTURING Successful Strategies for Competing in a Low-Cost Manufacturing World As we enter into one of the most challenging global economic times of this era, the importance of leadership, globalization & innovation has never been greater. What we really need is a fresh perspective. Too many times manufacturing management gets bogged down in day too day operating details and forgets to look at their business from a distance. This seminar can assist you in refocusing on achieving your goals and objectives. The competitive landscape is crowded and dynamic. Small and medium size businesses have their own challenges in addition to being pressured by very large businesses that are very resource rich. The future requirements are very clear. Companies that move toward higher level relationships on a global basis and higher process implementation do much better in attaining the objectives required to grow their business. The face of global competition for U.S. manufacturers has changed dramatically in recent years. In this global market where low-cost countries are gaining market share in manufacturing, some U.S. companies are not just surviving, but actually thriving. Effectively focusing on today's problems while also charting a business strategy to take advantage of future prosperity in the new growth economy will set a business apart from its competition. The best executives make the tough decisions about markets and products when the environment is at its worst. What is done at the top level sets the tone for the business, the investors, and the employees. This seminar will provide useful and practical insights on a range of areas where manufacturing businesses can quickly and sustainably improve their cash flow. WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND We know that it is always difficult giving up your time to come to a seminar. I always ask myself several questions when deciding whether to attend: 1. What will I get out of the seminar? 2. Will it provide me with some information that can help with some of the strategies that I am putting in place? 3. Will I meet anyone who could be of benefit to my organization? This seminar will suit you if your organization has any of the following challenges or needs: • Can see market opportunities that you cannot respond to. • Are stagnating in the market place and losing competitive advantage. • Need additional resource to get new products to market. • Need to add more value into your products at the same or less cost. • Need to make changes but unsure of who to select as new partners. • Need design and manufacturing partners who are stable in the market place with a strong supply chain. • Problems that need to be solved fast. • Opportunities that need to be acted upon now. • Challenges from competitors, customers and suppliers that you need to meet more efficiently and profitably. • There will be other companies attending that you would like to meet. This seminar brings together a variety of high profile industry and educational leaders to share their wealth of knowledge and expertise to help attendees sustain and navigate their way through the global manufacturing maze. Five great companies! Five great speakers! Agenda 8:00- 9:00 A.M. Continental Breakfast/Networking/Pick up your badge. 9:00-9:15 Welcome Dr Robert Carlson -- Director, Rice Campus / Associate Dean, Graduate College Jerry R. Mitchell -- President of The Midwest Entrepreneurs Forum 9:15- 9:45 Pam McDonough -- CEO/President Alliance for Illinois Manufacturing/NORBIC "Working with Government and Private Resources to become Globally Competitive" www.illinpoismanufacturing.org 9:45-10:15 Stella Su -- Head of Blackman Kallick's China Practice and a Director in the firm's Corporate Finance Consulting Group Blackman Kallick "Surviving the recession - how to boost the long term value of your business?" www.bkadvice.com 10:15-10:30 Break 10:30- 11:00 Jerry R. Mitchell -- CEO Jerry R. Mitchell and Associates Inc. “Partnering With China for Mutual Benefits” www.jerryRmitchell.com 11:00-11:30 Dr. Keith E. McKee -- Director Industrial Technology & Management Manufacturing Productivity Center Illinois Institute of Technology "Supply Chain Futures" www.intm.iit.edu 11:30-12:00 Luis Solano -- CEO Trivalent Solutions Inc. "How Future Manufacturing Trends will impact your Business Systems" www.trivalentsolutions.com Cost: $50.00 per person. Registration: Online Registration only. www.MidwestEntrepreneursForum.Org/CalendarEvents.aspx chose Special Events from box. Seats are limited and reigistration will close on 10:00pm May27. Manufacture Seminar Speaker Bios Pam McDonough Currently, Pam McDonough simultaneously serves as CEO/President of the Alliance for Illinois Manufacturers/NORBIC, and as CEO of DeAngelo McDonough Construction Management Company. She was the former Chair of both the Local Labor Relations Board and the Illinois Research Park Authority. Previously, as the first woman director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA) she managed the state’s economic development agency with a nearly $2 billion budget and a staff of over 500. Under her leadership, Illinois was ranked first in the nation for economic development in 2001 and 2002 by Site Selection magazine. She also served as part of the Governor’s negotiating team which successfully avoided a strike of the Chicago Hotel Workers in September of 2002. She was Governor’s point person that brought The Boeing Company’s global headquarters to Chicago. Other successes include, retaining Solo Cup and the Ford Motor Company expansions on Chicago's Southeast side; an expansion of ATA’s presence at Midway Airport and development of a training center for ATA; a downtown expansion for ABN-AMRO; and the $1Billion redevelopment of the Joliet Arsenal into North America's largest intermodal hub. Due to her efforts in organizing a team of government, industry and civic leaders, Chicago, will host the international 2006 Bio Conference, the first time ever in the Midwest. During McDonough's tenure as DCCA director, the agency helped create and retain more than 110,000 jobs for Illinois. On the international front, she organized the first Humanitarian trip to Cuba in 40 years, met with Fidel Castro, opened a trade office with a trade delegation in South Africa, and accompanied the Governor with a small delegation to meet with newly elected President Vincente Fox of Mexico. Additionally, she made presentations to various chambers of commerce, foreign press, tourism and trade representatives in London, Paris, Berlin and Dublin with a special emphasis on Illinois’ success story relating to Boeing. Participated as a representative of the United States at the ecumenical service at the Pro Cathedral during a national day of mourning in Dublin, Ireland following 9/11/01. Most of McDonough’s adult life has been spent working for or with state government. She was simultaneously president of McDonough Consulting, a government consulting firm, and executive director of the Illinois Federation of Women Contractors. She has held senior legislative/policy positions for four Illinois state departments: the Department of Administrative Services (now Central Management Services), the Department of Public Aid, the Capital Development Board under Governor Jim Edgar, and the Department of Transportation. She was deputy director of legislative affairs under Governor James R. Thompson and served as chief of staff for a House Minority Leader. In the private sector, she was head of state government relations for the Illinois Bankers Association. WBE’s. McDonough has served on a number of major task forces, including Chair of the Governor’s Transition Team on Economic Development, the Illinois Council on the Future of Public Service, the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Property Tax Reform, and the Statewide Building Requirements Task Force. She chaired the Governor’s Task Force on Universal Certification for M/ McDonough is the former Vice-Chair of the Women Executives in State Government. She served on the boards of the University Of Illinois College Of Engineering Advisory Board the University of Illinois Research Park. Currently she is on the boards of the Women’s Business Development Center, Guerin College Prep High School Board, Secretary of the Architecture, Construction and Engineering Technical Charter High School, the President’s Advisory Committee for Wilbur Wright College, the Leadership Roundtable for the University of Illinois at Springfield, member of the National Commission on the Future of UIS, serves as a board member and Chair of the legislative committee for the Federation of Women Contractors and is the former Chair for the Miss Illinois Scholarship Foundation. Her professional and volunteer activities have yielded numerous recognition and leadership awards: 2002 Motorola Excellence in Public Service Award; 2002 Leadership Award from the Illinois Development Council; 2002 Maitland Biotechnology Leadership Award; 2002 Friend of Agriculture Award from the Illinois Soybean Association; Women’s Advocate of the Year and Outstanding Leadership Awards by the Federation of Women Contractors; Appreciation Award from the Forum of Chicago Health Executives; Friend of Young Adults from Misericordia, Heart of Mercy; Leadership Advocate and Government Support Awards by the Women’s Business Development Center; Leadership Award from the March of Dimes; Distinguished Alumni Award from Northeastern Illinois University, the Small Business Administration’s Vision 2000 Award; the Women’s Bar Association’s Women of Vision Award; Distinguished Service Award from the Asian American Small Business Association; and the Economic Development Award from the Hispanic American Contractors Industry Association. Today’s Chicago Woman named her as one of 100 Women Making a Difference and 2002 Hall of Fame; and she was named to I-Street’s Top 100 people of Chicago’s High Tech Economy. McDonough earned a Master of Public Administration degree with honors from Sangamon State University (now the University of Illinois-Springfield), and a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Northeastern Illinois University. A native of Chicago, McDonough and she has two daughters, Brehan and Meghan Stella Su Professional Background Stella Su is the head of Blackman Kallick’s China Practice and a Director in the firm’s Corporate Finance Consulting Group. The China Practice provides consulting, audit and tax services to Chinese companies investing in the United States as well as to American businesses with operations in China. The Corporate Finance Consulting Group assists clients with mergers and acquisitions, valuations, raising capital, financing, operational improvements and business planning. Ms. Su has executed M&A buy-side and sell-side transactions in many industries including manufacturing, automotive aftermarket, distribution, contracting and construction, insurance, metals, chemicals, printing, consumer products, retail and real estate. Ms. Su also advises clients on raising capital and business valuations in industries such as software, financial services and health care. Prior to joining Blackman Kallick, Ms. Su was a senior associate at KPMG Corporate Finance, LLC, a broker-dealer investment banking practice, where she provided mergers and acquisitions, business valuation and capital raising advisory services to middle market clients. Prior to working at KPMG, Ms. Su was a senior capital/M&A analyst at CNA where she was responsible for business valuations in a variety of industries. Her valuation work included making recommendations to the board of directors on acquisitions and sales, assisting in the development of corporate strategies and providing advisory services to different strategic business units. Education and Professional Certifications Ms. Su earned her Master of Business Administration and Master of Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago with concentrations in Finance and Economics. She holds a Bachelor of Science in International Finance from the People’s University of China. Ms. Su is a CPA and an ABV (accredited in business valuations by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) and a chartered financial consultant (ChFC). Other Relevant Experience Ms. Su is a member of the Illinois CPA Society and serves on the Society’s M&A Special Interest Group Committee. Ms. Su also has industry experience as controller of the Focus Group, a privately owned construction equipment manufacturing and service company. Jerry R. Mitchell Jerry is president of Jerry R. Mitchell and Associates Inc. The firm incorporated in 1989 and is designed to specifically assist managers of technology- based companies in the planning and exploitation of existing and new business opportunities. Several of the firm’s clients have become public companies. Its unique experience in start-ups is especially important for new firms and new product endeavors. Jerry is also CEO of Asian Business Company, Inc. an importer and exporter of products from Asia. Jerry is also Chairman of Modularis Inc. http://www.modularis.com. In addition he is also Chairman of Apsiva www.apsiva.com. Jerry has been in the high tech industry since 1961 where he has held positions of: Salesman, Sales Manager, Vice- president Sales, Vice-president Marketing, Executive Vice president Sales and Marketing, President/CEO. Jerry has been a partner/founder with 12 companies that received over 50% international revenue, 8 of which successfully went public or were sold/merged. In November 1997 he and three other entrepreneurs were described in Fortune Magazine as serial entrepreneurs because of their accomplishments starting multiple successful companies. He is President/Founder of The Midwest Entrepreneurs Forum since its formation. He is the publisher of Bootstrapping newsletter. With his partner he holds monthly seminars called Bootstrapping sharing his knowledge with up and coming entrepreneurs. He serves on the Advisory Board of DePaul Universities Coleman Entrepreneurship Center. Jerry enjoys mentoring other entrepreneurs. Jerry has been appointed North American Representative for the city of Qingdao, China by the Mayor of Qingdao. He is a proven leader in taking new technology to market. Listed below are some of the ideas he helped bring to the international market. •First read only memory (emulated other computers including IBM 360) •First Computer Output Microfilm •First Non IBM Optical Scanning System •First Key To Disk Input Devices •First Computer Aided Design Systems •First Computer Aided Manufacturing Systems •First Digital Telemetry Systems Used to Monitor the Astronauts and taken to the market to monitor hospital patients including fetal monitoring •First automated pay Telephone Company •First high-resolution graphic display (2500 squared) system •First integrated logic design simulation system •First independent DSL Company Luis R. Solano Luis R. Solano is the president of Trivalent Solutions. He leads an organization whose goal is to serve enterprises by helping them achieve financial performance through process and system improvements. Luis was previously the Vice President and General Manager of Con-Way Business Solutions. This division of Con-Way Transportation Services, Inc. provided supply chain management and technology consulting solutions to mid-market manufacturers and distributors. He also served as a senior consultant with a RSM McGladrey, Inc., where he assisted firms with a variety of projects such as operations improvement, accelerated cost reductions, lean manufacturing improvements, as well as ERP system selection and implementations. He possesses expertise in supply chain optimization, facility layout and design, cycle time reduction, capital planning, high spot operational reviews and inventory control. Luis has helped clients with equipment justification, specification, installation and validation, resulting in significant ROI and improved operational efficiency. He has experience with site selections through the use of economic and socio-economic factor analysis. His inventory control programs at process manufacturing firms have resulted in improved accuracy, increased turns, improved cash flow, and customer service. A certified implementer of several ERP packages such as Sage X3, Ross Systems and Ramco Systems, Luis utilized this knowledge to help companies restructure their back-end operations and automate customer facing activities. He has successfully implemented packages at various types of manufacturers and distributors with multiple locations and divisions. He has also served as a business turnaround consultant, during which time he returned an electronics device manufacturer back to profitability within five months as part of a business turnaround team. Responsible for operations, he reduced direct labor costs by 17%, lowered the monthly burn rate by 35% and streamlined manufacturing operations. As a result of his team’s efforts, the corporation was able to find a suitable buyer for its operations. Previously, Luis worked as a plant manager with profit-and-loss responsibilities exceeding $60 million in revenue with a workforce of over 150. He had responsibility for a dry dosage pharmaceutical facility where he improved cash flow by focusing on inventory turns, downtime reduction, and other cycle time improvements. He also served as an operation professional at various Fortune 100 and mid-market companies, including Abbott Laboratories, Ralston Purina and GC America, where his efforts decreased safety stock levels and reduced back order to less than 2% of sales. In addition, that project decreased WIP levels by more than 80% while reducing downtime and direct labor costs. Luis' experience with facility layout and redesign, IQ/OQ/PQ methodology and testing, and equipment operating procedures and operator training programs has provided him with a full understanding of business operations. Luis Solano has a B. S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Buffalo, and an M.B.A. from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. Keith McKee Technical Expertise Industrial Technology and Management Education with specializations in Industrial Logistics, Industrial Facilities, and Manufacturing Technology. Lead for developing courses on eergy systems: The Carbon Economy and Energy Options Positions – Illinois Institute of Technology • Director Bachelor of Industrial Technology and Management and Master of Industrial Technology and Operations since 1993 - Specializations in Industrial Logistics, Industrial Facilities and Manufacturing Technology • Professor Armour College since 1993 • Adjunct Professor 1976-1993 teaching in Stuart School of Business, Mechanical Engineering Department, and Civil Engineering Department. • Director, Manufacturing Productivity Center since 1976. • Publisher of Logistics Frontiers – quarterly published 2004 to 2008 • Chair of Industrial Logistics Conference, IIT, May 26, 2004 • Teaches courses in Supply Chain Management, Quality Control, Operations Management, Resource Management, Manufacturing Processes, Industrial Entrepreneurship and Energy Options • CoPI on KEEN Foundation Industrial Entrepreneurship Program Education Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, 1962 from Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Experience Director, Manufacturing Productivity Center, since 1976 Director, IIT Industrial Technology and Management Programs, since 1992 Research Professor, IIT-wide, since 1993 Adjunct Professor at IIT, 1976-1993 Other Related Experience IIT Research Institute: Director Engineering Research, 1967-1986: Director, Manufacturing Research, 1986-1992; Director, Engineering Research, 1968-1984; Educational Coordinator for INFAC Program, 1989-1993 Andrew Corporation, Director, Mechanical Design, Product Assurance, and Manufacturing Engineering, 1962-1967 Consulting International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 134 – advised on development of for-credit AAS program with Community College Chicago Manufacturing Center (CMC) – Led Assessments of 250 Chicagoland companies City Colleges of Chicago, Daley College. Consultant for development of AAS degrees in Transportation, Distribution and Logistics, Manufacturing Technology, Maintenance Technology and Electronic Manufacturing Indiana Labor and Management Council (ILMC) – Consulting and Training for over 40 companies. Consulting for a wide variety of company on training/education, systems, quality control, plant layout, automation, and a variety of management issues Principal Publications Dr. McKee is editor and/or author of six books including: Managing Technology Dependent Operations (with Tijunelis), MPC, 2004 Manufacturing High Technology Handbook (with Tijunelis), Marcel Dekker, 1987; Productivity and Technology, ILMC, 1988; Eighth International Conference on Automated Inspection and Process Control, Springer-Verlag, 1987. McKee is author of over 200 publications relating to industrial technology and productivity including: “Process Control State of the Art Review” (with Mannebach), MTIAC, 1989; “Artificial Intelligence Concepts” (with Wisnosky and Walk), MTIAC, 1988; and “Computer Integrated Manufacturing Concepts and Applications” (with Wisnosky and Walk), MTIAC, 1988. Manufacturing Productivity Frontiers was published by Manufacturing Productivity Center monthly from 1976 until 2000. Dr. McKee wrote the editorials and directed preparation of this monthly publication. Logistics Frontiers is published by Manufacturing Productivity Center quarterly. Dr. McKee prepares editorials and directs preparation of this monthly publication. Honors and Awards SME Gold Medal 1990 Fellow, World Academy of Productivity Science, 1993 Who’s Who Worldwide Who’s Who in America Who’s Who in Frontiers Science and Technology Who’s Who in the Midwest
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