Michigan Simulation User Group

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 10/27/2010: Llamasoft will be our third scheduled Vendor session, in the vendor room.  Agenda updated accordingly.

UPDATED 10/18/2010: Siemens PLM Software have filled the vacancy for our second scheduled amphitheater vendor session.  Agenda updated accordingly.

UPDATED 9/30/2010: The updated, final conference flyer, complete with registration form, is now attached.

UPDATED 9/28/2010:  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 27, 2010.  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 the MSUG Treasurer - the address is on the form. Attendance to the conference includes lunch and 2011 membership of MSUG.  Walk-in registrations will be accepted, but advance registration is strongly preferred.

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.

If you are LinkedIn, please visit the MSUG 2010 Annual Conference Event page and let your contacts know you will be attending.

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.

Agenda:

Presenters:

Joe Hugan: Integrating Deterministic Tools in a Stochastic Simulation Analysis

Abstract: As simulation becomes more integrated with the overall decision making process within an organization, one of the challenges is to extend simulation earlier in the system design process.  Early involvement in a project is usually fraught with insufficient data that lacks either quality, quantity or both.  Rather than delay involvement in these situations, it is better to pursue techniques for static analysis that can quickly aid in the decision making process during conceptual phases.

To that end, this presentation will introduce a static analysis tool that has been developed to quickly model deterministic manufacturing settings without losing the complexity of part flow, operator interaction, and other synchronous conditions.  As the project progresses, these relationships can be exported into a neutral file format for use in commercial simulation packages.  The presentation will walk through an example system showing the application of the tool and its eventual use in a discrete event simulation.

Biography: Joe Hugan is the president of Forward Vision, a simulation services consulting company located in Michigan.  Joe has worked on hundreds of simulation projects worldwide over the past 25 years.  He is the current general chair for the Winter Simulation Conference that will be held in Baltimore from December 5-8, 2010.  He has his B.S. in Manufacturing Systems from GMI Engineering & Management Institute and his MBA from Wayne State University.

Dr. Erica Klampfl: Using Operations Research to make Urgent Sourcing Decisions in a Distressed Supplier Environment

Abstract: In 2006, Ford Motor Company committed to restructure the $1.5 billion ACH Interiors business. This extensive undertaking required a complete re-engineering of the supply footprint of 42 high-volume product lines over 26 major manufacturing process and more than 50 potential supplier sites. We will present details of the business problem, the approach we developed to solve the underlying large-scale mixed-integer nonlinear program (MINLP), and the business outcome that resulted in savings of approximately $40 million in upfront investment over the previously preferred alternative. The new tool we developed provided a state-of-the-art, data driven, and quantitative basis for sourcing decisions in an area of strategic importance to the company and enabled Ford to make faster and better decisions on how to restructure its ACH Interiors business.

Biography: Erica Klampfl leads a Strategy and Sustainability Analytics Research Group at Ford Research & Advanced Engineering.  Her research interests include the application of Operations Research techniques to manufacturing, workplace efficiency, logistics, supply chain management, strategic planning, sustainability, and intelligent vehicle functions.  She received a Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University in 2001.  Dr. Klampfl is an active member of INFORMS and is currently the Chair of the INFORMS Prize Committee and a member of the 2011 INFORMS Practice Advisory Council and Edelman Gala Committee.  In addition, Dr. Klampfl is a member of the University of Michigan's Industrial and Operations Engineering Advisory Board, Ford's representative for the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and Michigan State University's Industrial Math Program and has served periodically as Ford's INFORMS Roundtable representative.  She was selected to attend the 2005 National Academy of Engineering 11th Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering and is a 2008 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize finalist:  her  internal awards include the 2010 Henry Ford Technology Award and the 2010, 2009, and 2008 Ford Technical Achievement Awards.

Greg Boos: Healthcare Modeling of Emergency Room, Radiology, Computerized Tomography, and Cardiac Catheterization, with a Panel Discussion on Discrete-Event Applicability

Abstract: Health care is looking to reinvent itself like many other industries. What can we do better and what would better look like?Health care organizations are now using Lean teachings to improve their processes and modeling techniques to predict outcomes and assist in decision making. This presentation will demonstrate some of the issues facing healthcare and how they were resolved using Lean and modeling. Examples will be taken from actual projects in the Emergency, Radiology, and Cardiac Catheterization Departments to demonstrate how healthcare uses modeling.

Biography: Greg is a Project Manager in the Performance Improvement department at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital. He has 25 years experience in healthcare, with the last 6 years dedicated in performance improvement. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and has also been trained in the Lean methodology. His role in performance improvement includes running Kaizen events, Hoshin planning and education of Lean to the hospital employees. He has bachelor degrees in Chemistry, Education and Computer Science from Wayne State University.

Vendor Sessions:

Our confirmed vendor sessions, in alphabetical order, are:

Emulate 3D Ltd
Siemens PLM Software, Inc.
Llamasoft, Inc.

Besides vendor sessions, you will also have the opportunity to interact one-on-one with many vendors in their booths during the break room sessions.

Call for Nominees:

We are looking for volunteers to serve on the MSUG Steering Committee; please contact Mark Jeffery at president at m-sug dot org.

Map & Directions:

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From I-75 take the Crooks Road exit (#72). Turn right at the ramp and go ½ mile north on Crooks to Square Lake Road. Turn right on Square Lake Road (heading east). Management Education Center is the first driveway on the right.