| What: | Digital Smart Factory Forum |
| Where: | Orlando, Florida; Hyatt Regency Orlando Airport |
| When: | June 18-20, 2001 |
| Co-Chairs: | Orlando Boleda, VP, Research & Engineering Council
Chuck Gehman, Executive Vice President & CTO, Printable |
| Who should attend: | Calling on senior production managers, business strategists and IT leaders |
| Web Site: | www.gca.org/dsf |
Digital Smart Factory Forum
The goal of the Digital Smart Factory Forum (the "Forum") is to optimize the production process through automation and electronic communications. Now in its third year, the Forum specifically focuses on the application of computer technology to the print production process, from creation to delivery, including: 1) Cover Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2) Information Management and Automated Production for Print, and 3) Theory and Practice. The Digital Smart Factory Forum provides management with the information and resources that you can use to ensure success. The digital smart factory forum will evolve into a venue to help build your internal dialogues and planning between senior executives, production and it management.
Agenda
The Smart Factory agenda includes three major sessions: 1) In-depth tutorials that set the business and technical foundations for computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), 2) Specific issues of CIM through white paper presentations, and 3) Case studies that implement CIM solutions. During each session, attendees, moderators and speakers will examine and discuss content, issues and needs.
This Is Not Your Average Conference
The discussion in the three major sessions will facilitate the development of an on-going Digital Smart Factory Forum agenda for the next 12 months. Like the development of CIM, the Forum will build a process, not a one-time event. Forum participants will be instrumental to this and to making CIM happen. Over the next several years, in fact, driven by economics and competition from other media, CIM is poised to be the focus of much of our industry's development activity, by both vendors and sophisticated users alike.
About GCA
GCA (Graphic Communications Association) is the leading global membership organization that advances the process of information interoperability and dissemination of knowledge in print and electronic communications. GCA accomplishes this by engaging in and supporting the creation and adoption of globally recognized standards for information definition and exchange. www.gca.org
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