Keynote Address:
Jamie McDonald

In his current role as Director of Business Development, Jamie McDonald is leading the effort to integrate the acquisition of former Ram Industries into one Schneider Electric brand. Prior to taking on the role of Director of Business Development, Jamie was the plant manager of the Lincoln, Nebraska Square D plant for five years. In 2007, Jamie and his team were named as recipients of the Plant Engineering Top Plant award, which recognizes outstanding manufacturing facilities around the world. Plants are judged on their record of safety, energy efficiency and productivity. In the keynote address at the Virtual Manufacturing Summit, Jamie will discuss what it takes to become a Top Plant.

SESSION 1:
NFPA 70E 2009: Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace

Speaker:

Joseph Weigel, Square D

Joseph Weigel is a veteran of over 30 years in the electrical industry in the United States and in China.  He currently works for Square D Services in Nashville Tennessee as their Product Manager for the arc flash awareness program.  He is a member of the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.).

Mr. Weigel has had extensive experience leading the Square D Services program to help to develop the NFPA 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace, and to increase awareness of these new evolving NFPA standards and OSHA requirements that affect Square D customers.  He has written and published over 60 articles in electrical industry publications on strategies to mitigate arcing faults in electrical distribution equipment, and has lectured extensively in North America and Australia to increase awareness for these new safety standards and requirements.

SESSION 2:
Energy and Sustainability
There has been no more volatile issue for plant managers in the past two years than energy. The discussion continues to evolve past just energy usage into creating a sustainable manufacturing environment that utilizes all energy resources without creating waste. We'll look at how such plants turn energy from a cost center into a profit center.

Speaker:

Rod Ellsworth, Infor

Rod Ellsworth is Infor's Vice President of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Solutions. He brings over 30 years of related energy and enterprise asset management experience and holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and a post graduate Fellowship in Applied Statistics from Miami of Ohio. Prior to joining Infor, he was one of the lead architects of a technology solution that has been adopted by a majority of nuclear energy organizations in the United States. Combining his knowledge of Enterprise Asset Management systems and facility change management, his depth of experience in the energy industry and his keen interest in understanding how managing assets can affect corporate sustainability and profitability, Rod has spearheaded the development and application of Infor's global asset sustainability solution, Infor EAM Asset Sustainability Edition.

SESSION 3:
Workforce Development
Plant Engineering readers have identified workforce development as the number one issue facing them - ahead of energy, taxes and foreign competition. The issue is getting more attention, but it's also becoming more critical. We bring together all the key stakeholders - manufacturers and educators - to look at how this issue needs to be addressed.

Speaker:

Bill Wilder, Life Cycle Engineering

Bill Wilder is the Director of Education at Life Cycle Engineering (LCE). Bill holds a Masters of Education degree from East Tennessee State University. As Director of Education, Bill manages LCE's Life Cycle Institute, the learning source for Reliability Excellence. The Institute was created in response to the need for a life long learning resource for people engaged in optimizing asset reliability and performance. Bill's facilitator's utilize adult learning methods that minimize lecture and emphasize learning by doing. His courses are specifically designed to be "active training" programs. Prior to working with LCE, Bill worked as the Director of Sales and Marketing at Greenville Technical College where he created the Asset Performance Institute in collaboration with Fluor. He established a successful speaking, training and consulting practice focused on communications and sales skills.

SESSION 4:
Enterprise Asset Management
It's never been more important to keep your plant running efficiently and effectively, especially if capital improvement budgets are being cut. We'll focus on the technology and strategy behind effective asset management, and how it can drive greater productivity and lower costs throughout your organization.

Speaker:

Mary T. Bunzel, IBM

For the last 22 years, Ms. Bunzel has been serving the Enterprise Asset Management Community in a variety of roles. After graduation in 1986 from Marquette University Business Administration program, she took on customer support and implementation work, helping maintenance departments become successful with new processes and technologies to support maximum production efficiency through Asset Management, eventually growing into VP and General Manager for the Midwest division of a technology firm in the same field. Leaving management for closer customer involvement was an easy decision and the following 13 years with MRO Software and then with IBM have created the opportunity to work with companies such as 3M, Miller Brewing, Harley Davidson, Target Corporation, ADM, General Motors, Whirlpool, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, and many more industrial firms to enhance their use of Asset Management tools to become more efficient with their maintenance operations and equipment efficiencies. Today she is serving as IBM's Worldwide Industrial Leader for Manufacturing, a role in which she is able to bring experience and expertise to worldwide organizations.