Michigan Simulation User Group

Elections to the MSUG Steering Committee for 2010 were held at our Annual Conference at the MEC in Troy on 10/28/2009.

The following MSUG Steering Committee 2009 members had reached the end of their current terms and stepped down.  On behalf of the MSUG membership, we'd like to thank them for their hard work, for volunteering their time and energy over the last few years and for helping to promote the cause of discrete-event simulation in Michigan:

• Cindy Schiess, Design Systems, Inc. (2009 President)
• Jeff Miller, General Motors (2009 Secretary)
• Marcelo Zottolo, Production Modeling Corp. (2009 Membership)

(This event is hosted by the Michigan chapter of INCOSE.)

You are cordially invited to participate in this discussion forum event, which will focus on the select theme of Engineering Modeling and Simulations.  The purpose is to foster lively idea exchanges on the selected theme.  In short, this event is an "idea exchange and meet up".  This meeting shall include several representatives from select companies who are focused on products or services of engineering modeling and simulations.

Interested in learning more about Demo3D? Attend a one day workshop in Auburn Hills, MI and receive the use of a full license of Demo3D for three weeks. Cost for training: $300, lunch provided.

Contact Matt Hobson-Rohrer for details:

www.demo3d.com
Matt Hobson-Rohrer
matt AT demo3d DOT com
801.831.5105

Management Education Center
811 West Square Lake Road
Troy, MI 48098

The Michigan Simulation User Group (MSUG)'s Annual Conference includes presentations by prominent speakers on a wide range of topics designed to be of interest to the simulation practitioner and their management.

UPDATED 10/26/2009:  Conference Agenda included.  Read full article for details.

Based on your feedback we have specifically selected 3 speakers from across different industries. In addition to great presentations, we are continuing with our restructured agenda to give attendees the opportunity to see a variety of products showcased in vendor sessions.  You will also have the opportunity to talk to these and other vendors during our break room sessions so that you can get detailed information about their full line of product or service offerings.

The conference is on Wednesday, October 28, 2009.  We invite you to register for the conference and ensure a place for this exciting event. Just fill in the Registration form (see conference flyer attached) and mail it to Mark Steury - Treasurer, MSUG.  Attendance to the conference includes a one year membership to the MSUG.  We are accepting payments through postal mail only.  The address is on the form.

Please e-mail treasurer AT m-sug DOT org if you have any questions regarding payment.  Please direct all other questions to annual DOT conference DOT chair AT m-sug DOT org.

Read full article for agenda, presentation abstracts, speaker biographies, vendor sessions details, call for nominees for election to the MSUG Steering Committee, venue map & directions.

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...