Michigan Simulation User Group

A not so warm March evening, warm Mexican cuisine combined with a hot topic to made for an excellent membership meeting.  Dr. Jayant Trewn (the presenter) from Beaumont University gave an invigorating talk on integrating the various aspects of process improvement techniques such as Lean, PDCA & Six Sigma.  The 18 attendees comprising a multitude of industry verticals had their intellectual fill on the topic.

Steering Committee member Karthik Vasudevan has published the 2009 Quarter 2 edition of the MSUG newsletter.  You can download the newsletter via the attachment below...

UPDATED 5/20/2009!

Our June General Membership Meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 9^th, 2009 at BD's Mongolian BBQ, Novi.  The event starts at 4pm and is expected to conclude at 6pm.

Dr. Ahad Ali, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technical University, will be presenting Intelligent Modeling and Simulation in Electronics Manufacturing for Performance Improvement.

Read full article for presentation abstract, speaker biography, venue address & map.

Dinner will follow the discussion, providing an opportunity to network and to discuss the presentation with fellow members.

Admission (includes dinner, non-alcoholic drink & gratuity):
Members: $15
Non-Members: $20
Students (Student ID required): $10

Cash, personal checks, Visa & MasterCard payments accepted.

Please join us there!  If you plan to attend, please notify our General Meeting Chair, Dave Stone, at general DOT meeting DOT chair AT m-sug DOT org.

Hi!  I'm Mike Allen and I'm the MSUG Steering Committee member responsible for looking after the web-site throughout 2009.

Last year, we discussed ways to make our web-site a little more useful to you, our members and to the simulation community in Michigan in general.  The result is our new, re-launched web-site.  As before, we'll use the site to announce events such as our General Membership Meetings and Annual Conferences, publish papers presented at these events, publish our newsletter, list simulation-related software, organizations and service providers and tell you about MSUG.  In addition, the new site provides some new features that we hope you will find useful too: news, blogs, discussion forums, job postings and opinion polls.  It's now also possible to search the site's content.

Steering Committee member Karthik Vasudevan has published the 2009 Quarter 1 edition of the MSUG newsletter.  You can download the newsletter via the attachment below...

MSUG Steering Committee member Marcelo Zottolo has set-up a group for MSUG on the LinkedIn business networking site.  If you are LinkedIn, you can access the group via this link.  (If you're not LinkedIn, you'll need to register for an account in order to join.)

Membership of this group is open to all, not just to MSUG members.

This year's Winter Simulation Conference will be held at the Hilton Austin Hotel, in Austin, TX from December 13th through December 16th.

The theme of this year's conference is Energy Alternatives.

For further details, please refer to http://www.wintersim.org/.

Our March General Membership Meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 24^th, 2009 at Juan's Hacienda in Madison Heights, MI.  The event starts at 4pm and is expected to conclude at 6pm.

Dr. Jayant Trewn of Beaumont Hospitals will be presenting Demystifying PDCA, Six Sigma and Lean Improvement Methodologies - A Systems Approach.

Read full article for presentation abstract, speaker biography, venue address & map.

Dinner will follow the discussion, providing an opportunity to network and to discuss the presentation with fellow members.

Admission (includes dinner, gratuity & non-alcoholic beverages):
Members: $10
Non-Members: $15
Students (Student ID required): $5

Cash, personal checks, Visa & MasterCard payments accepted.

Please join us there!  If you plan to attend, please notify our General Meeting Chair, Dave Stone, at general DOT meeting DOT chair AT m-sug DOT org.

There are so many new things that you can do on the new MSUG website that I don't know where to begin!

I've installed a new WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor on the site for editing content.  It's a fairly sophisticated system, but is a little temperamental and may require further configuration.  Please notify me of any issues that you have using it.