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4 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE THIRD NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
4 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE THIRD NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
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, had the theme "Manufacturing Technology Needs and Issues: Establishing National Priorities and Strategies." It was oriented toward national manufacturing issues. The second conference, held in 1995, had the theme "Toward a Common Agenda." While this second conference inclucled elements of policy, its primary goal was to help develop a coherent strategy for developing manufacturing technologies.
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These processes include decisions by the National Science and Technology Council and decisions by manufacturing technology program managers within individual federal agencies. Clarifying the roles expected of industry, academia, and government in accomplishing the national goal of manufacturing excellence would provide a
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The status of this study on next-generation manufacturing should be a focus of the next national manufacturing technology conference. Clarifying how the activities of government agencies involved in significant manufacturing technology research (especially the departments of Commerce, Defense, and Energy, and the National Science Foundation)
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. Provide a review and description of the overall technology planning process, including the identification at previous workshops of the manufacturing infrastructure as a national need and the rationale for the manufacturing infrastructure categories, the use of the next-generation manufacturing study results by various government agencies, and assessment of how current projects fit into the technology plans.
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION AND PLANNING To accomplish the above objectives, the conference must be structured to gain maximum benefit from the expertise of the participants. The roles and duties of the speakers, workshop chairs, anct participants shouicT be clearly identifiect and communicated before the conference to allow the selected conference theme to be properly executed, to reinforce objectives, and to assure the conference achieves tangible results.
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Actual examples of how portions of the manufacturing infrastructure (e.g., tools, process equipment, education and training> helped achieve success in the marketplace would reinforce their importance and the conclusion that these are the right areas to receive attention. Conference Program The conference program suggestions offered here are based on the conference framework and conference goals and objectives recommendecI above by the NRC committee, as well as the committee's conference planning guidelines.
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The third day of the conference should be a plenary session in which the several workshop chairs present their results, followed by a roundtable discussion to extract common themes and identify differences across the industry sectors. The general audience would be able to participate in the discussions and suggest ways to consider the needs of their industries in the technology development plans.
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