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Web seminar - Mar 17, 2010

Developing a Materials Strategy

Guest speaker: TRW Automotive

How do you select or substitute materials to ensure that you design great products, control costs, and minimize the risk of problems in the supply chain or manufacturing? It is hard to reconcile such conflicting objectives. This web seminar, with guest speaker TRW Automotive, will show how engineering and product design teams can work more effectively alongside procurement and supply chain organizations to meet key business objectives, while maximizing product performance.

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What will you see and hear?

You will hear first-hand from TRW Automotive about the materials challenges that face a global manufacturing organization, and how they are putting a structured solution in place to address them.

Granta Design will demonstrate the latest software for systematic materials selection, substitution, and cost optimization. We will introduce the work of the Materials Strategy Consortium, an industrial collaboration that drives the development of this software via peer-group review.

Here about the application of this software to:

• Guide designers in optimal materials choice, considering both functional requirements and overall cost objectives
  
  
• Address key business issues, including cost reduction, rationalization or diversification of suppliers, and materials equivalence in global manufacturing and design
  
  
• Help product design and development teams to work more effectively with other functions, such as procurement and supply chain management

Who should attend?

Managers in materials, design, engineering, or technology departments who want to enhance the impact of their functions on the strategic objectives of their businesses.

Senior managers in purchasing, supply chain management, regulatory compliance, manufacturing and other functions who seek to drive integration of their requirements into the product design and development process.

Executives responsible for business process improvement, cost reduction, or other strategic initiatives, who are facilitating cross-functional collaboration.

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