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Oracle Open World 2009- Focus on Manufacturing and MOC

Posted by Wise Desi on September 24, 2009

Manufacturing companies, plant IT and manufacturing users, looking for relevant sessions at OOW?  Attached documents provides you all the details you need.

Focus On Manufacturing

http://www.oracle.com/ocom/groups/public/documents/webcontent/033958.pdf

Focus on EAM

http://www.oracle.com/ocom/groups/public/documents/webcontent/033957.pdf

For MOC,  specifically, we have two dedicated sessions and a dedicated demo pod. You can find the information in any of the above two documents.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

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APICS 2009, Toronto

Posted by Wise Desi on September 24, 2009

Looking forward to connecting with broader manufacturing community at APICS 2009, Oct 4-6.

We’ll have a demo pod for Oracle MOC and some speaking slots so looks like an exciting event.

http://www.apics.org/education/conference/schedule/

My schedule – arriving on Sunday evening, leaving on Tuesday night.

Oracle is hosting a dinner for select customers on Monday evening. I’ll be joining rest of my colleagues and many customers at dinner. Details here

When: Monday, October 5 @ 5:45pm (wine/beer/hors doeuvres meet & greet) / 6:15ish dinner
Where: Victor Restaurant (3 minute walk from Convention Center) in Hotel Le Germain — http://dine.to/profile_features.php?feature=gallery&id=4578
Hatley Room (private room on 2nd level overlooking the restaurant)
Who: Scheduled dinner for 30 (5 rounds of 6 / can be adjusted)

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Posted by Wise Desi on July 13, 2009

Please join us for a webcast on Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center.

Date and Time: Thursday July 16, 9 am, Pacific Time

Please enroll using the following link

https://conference.oracle.com/imtapp/app/conf_enrollment.uix?mID=146477531

Conference Key is “advisor”, all lower case.

Title:   Introducing Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center in Release 12.1.
Abstract:
In the current economic environment, manufacturing customers are focused on cost cutting and are increasingly looking for ways to get better returns from their manufacturing assets. This one hour session will introduce customers to Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center (MOC), an ideal solution for the current environment. Customers will learn how Oracle MOC has been designed to deliver value in a very short period of time- weeks instead of years.  Customers will hear about the unique standards based data model and other key capabilities of the solution.

We’ll cover topics including:

  • How Manufacturing IT can provide real-time information on plant operations to their users
  • How customers bring together bits and pieces of manufacturing data from different sources in a single unified data repository
  • How customers can integrate shop floor systems and equipment with their back end ERP system including EBS Release 11.5.10
  • How customers can get value in a very short period of time while implementing a solution that is architected for long term

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Learn more about Oracle MOC

Posted by Wise Desi on May 27, 2009

Here’s a recent podcast that tells you more about Oracle Mfg Operations Center and mentions the blog

 

 

Improving Shopfloor Data Collection with Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center

Posted: 18 May 2009 05:00 PM PDT

Successful factories around the world leverage information to drive their production and supply chains. New tools are available today to further catapult the data collection, analysis, contextualization and collaboration to the various stakeholders involved in the manufacturing process. Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center (MOC) addresses the factory’s need for accurate and timely information about product and process quality, insight into shop floor operations, and performance of production assets. It solves the complex problem of connecting fragmented disconnected shop floor data to the business context of your ERP and provides the solid foundation for running Continuous Improvement (CI) programs such as Lean and Six Sigma.

  

 

This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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Oracle Manufacturing Summit is here

Posted by Wise Desi on April 16, 2009

Oracle’s 2nd Annual Manufacturing Summit at Pella

Annual Oracle Manufacturing Summit

Be part of Oracle’s performance Driven Manufacturing and plan to, attend the 2nd Annual Oracle Manufacturing Summit at Pella. If you have experience applying application solution to manufacturing operations you should not miss this event!

27 – 28, April, 2009

Pella Corporation
102 Main Street
Pella, IA 50219

Learn from leading companies, who have experience applying application solutions to their manufacturing operations, as they share effective practices, process improvement initiatives and lessons learned. Oracle Strategists will provide insight into the direction and tools they are delivering to support customer’s reliability initiatives.

Highlights

Manufacturing in the Economic Downturn – How Oracle can Help you Achieve Manufacturing excellence in a tough economic climate.
Nagaraj Srinivasan Oracle, Vice President Supply Chain Products

Customer Success Stories

Transforming your business with Lean Manufacturing – How IT leaders can drive business value to the bottom line.
Gregory Fell, Terex Corporation, CIO

Emerson’s Oracle-in-a-Box- Accelerating the Time to ValueJim Southwick, Emerson, Director IT Services and Project Governance
Tim Hertzig, Deloitte Consulting, Oracle Senior Manager

G-James – Getting the Most from your Manufacturing Information
Bruce Moy, G James, VP Operations and Amit Singh, Oracle

Customer Panel – Best Practices for Information Driven Manufacturing
Siva Jayaraman, Oracle

Manufacturing SIG Update – Sandie Foster, Abeam, Communications Director

Breakout Sessions

  • Process Manufacturing Product Direction/Q&A
  • Discrete Manufacturing Product Direction/Q&A
  • Driving Product Profitability with Oracle Product Lifecycle (PLM)
  • Advanced Planning Command Center: Enabling Information-Driven Value Chain Planning
  • Oracle BI: An Analytic Application to Support Actionable Intelligence
  • Achieving Supply Chain Excellence through SOA
  • And much more!

Click here for complete agenda and times

Click on the register now button on the right side or call 1.800.820.5592 ext. 6103 to register today for the 2nd Annual Oracle Manufacturing Summit.

Travel to Pella Iowa, from Des Moines, IA airport (approx. 1 hour driving time to Pella, IA)

Recommended Hotels – Click here

It’s Manufacturing Week in Pella Iowa!

Click here now for another Oracle Exclusive Opportunity.

Oracle Customer Showcase Pella Corporation

Deloitte
Date 27-April-2009 To 28-April-2009
Starts At 11:00 am
Venue Pella Corporation
Street Address 102 Main Street
City Pella
State IA
Zip 50219
Country United States

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Upcoming Events for Oracle Mfg Operations Center

Posted by Wise Desi on March 10, 2009

Spring Events Calendar

Free Event - Oracle’s Applications Unlimited Experts Live! Virtual Show - Wednesday March 11, 2009.
This action packed day kicks off in high gear with a compelling keynote from Ed Abbo, Oracle’s Senior Vice President of Applications Development. The remainder of the day is packed with live sessions as well as live chats with Oracle applications experts.

Free Event -Oracle’s Second Annual Manufacturing Summit at Pella – April 27-28
It’s Manufacturing Week in Pella Iowa!

Be part of Oracle’s performance Driven Manufacturing and plan to, attend the 2nd Annual Oracle Manufacturing Summit at Pella. If you have experience applying application solution to manufacturing operations you should not miss this event!

Learn from leading companies, who have experience applying application solutions to their manufacturing operations, as they share effective practices, process improvement initiatives and lessons learned. Oracle Strategists will provide insight into the direction and tools they are delivering to support customer’s reliability initiatives.

Then stay the week for Oracle Customer Showcase Pella Corporation – Lean Manufacturing - April 27 – 30
During the event, Pella will showcase how applying Oracle’s solutions is contributing to success for today, tomorrow and beyond. Functional groups will provide insight into their experiences with flow manufacturing, sales, service and support, warehouse management, financials, intelligence, expenses, and technology hardware, infrastructure upgrades and support and much, much more.

Registration Fee Event - OAUG Collaborate 09 Technology & Applications Forum (http://oaug.collaborate09.com/ - May 3-7,2009 Orlando Florida -
Access to 1,000+ User-Led Sessions
Packed with Best Practices and Case Studies
19 Educational Tracks
8 Deep Dive Workshops
Peer-to-Peer Interaction
Dozens of Networking Events,
Geographic and Special Interest Group Meetings
150+ Cutting Edge Exhibitors
Unparalleled Training Value

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Big 3 and UAW must discover the flexible knowledge worker NOW.

Posted by charlieg021163 on November 30, 2008

For the Big 3 and UAW to compete globally, they must change their monolithic manufacturing methods to adaptive manufacturing like Nissan who was the only auto manufacturer to make their 08 sales projection.   Why?  Nissan’s newest plants are able to adapt to market change by making 2-5 models across lines and adjust based on demand, i.e. SUV to crossovers and small cars.  They moved to paperless plants years ago.   Second, the UAW and other unions are the second barrier to global change management at the plant. They do not allow Lean or MES/MOM technologies to be applied in any real way.  85% of American plants still run on paper-based workflows and workers are not permitted to be trained and then applied in 3+ jobs so process can flex to demand and resource commitment.  Big 3 and UAW MUST create the “knowledge worker” whose pay is based on margin contribution.  I work on 7 different international standards for manufacturing operations management and am an internationally recognized expert in the field.  The Big 3 business model must change from one based on departmental finance metrics such labor per hour to a supply chain process based business model based on margin per unit or car.  If the company makes money so does the worker.   Interested? I can direct you to a number of organizations driving this change against the old paper-based guard.  The plant needs to be a profit center, not a cost center.  I once worked in the largest Ford plant in Canada where we installed $1MM workflow optimization system and the UAW went on strike based on “safety concern” of tracking worker performance.  A similar situation occurred at a GE Aviation plant where overtime was removed by optimizing workflow so the Union striked due to tracking worker performance so then GE simply build a competitive plant in Czech Republic.  Lots more examples.  The Bailout will not work til Big 3 and UAW transform the 21st century manufacturing plant and worker.  Worker hourly rate is no longer the issue.”

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Leadership Required: Business for Social Responsibility Conference in New York

Posted by rkroes on November 18, 2008

A very timely conference on the subject of the leadership required to manage the sustainability of our world. On the eve of the event the citizens of the United States elected a new president after 8 years of George W. Bush (it was quite a scene in Times Square…).

Valuable perspectives were provided on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) including by CEO’s of GE, IKEA, Levi’s, and SK Telecom. General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt laid out what he considers to be the four pillars of a successful CSR program:

- Remember the first part of CSR is “corporate”—you have to be competitive.
- Run your company on trust, which means compliance, governance, and transparency.
- Have a long-term commitment to your people.
- Orient your company to solve social problems, including energy and the environment.

Immelt also drove home the point that CSR must be strategic (YouTube).

Here are some session highlights relevant to the role of IT in supporting companies to be more sustainable:

- Is IT So Green?
- A Global Approach to Internal CSR Communications
- Reporting as a Conversation Starter
- CSR’s ROI: Does It Matter?
- How to be Lean and Green
- Innovating CSR Online

Summaries of all the sessions are available at:
http://www.bsr.org/bsrconferences/2008/session-summaries.cfm

Cheers,
Rich

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How everyday things are made..?

Posted by Wise Desi on October 30, 2008

Came across another interesting link. This is a resource provided by Stanford University and can be very helpful in teaching kids or anybody about manufacturing. They have online videos on the making of most everyday things from candy to cars and airplanes.

Here’s the link

http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/

Enjoy!

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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – OAGi Meeting Dec 3-4 in San Francisco

Posted by Wise Desi on October 30, 2008

From Guest writer Charlie Gifford:

Charlie is busy running around Europe and getting IICI off the ground. He sends this post by email:

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Please make your travel plans as soon as possible - registration is now open for our fall face to face OAGi meeting on Wednesday – Thursday, December 3-4, 2008 near Oracle’s offices south of San Francisco.

You can fly into the San Francisco, San Jose, or Oakland airports, depending on what is most convenient to you.

Registration and meeting details are available on our web site at: http://www.oagi.org/global/FallMeeting/OAGi%20Fall%20Meeting%20Page.htm

SPECIAL OAGIS BUSINESS TRAINING SESSION

In addition to our action packed agenda highlighted by customer case studies, our convergence activities, and discussions of future directions, we will be having a special OAGIS Business Training session on the morning of the second day.

We will be finishing by 3 PM at the latest on Thursday, for those who wish to fly back to the east coast that evening.

Please write to me if you have any questions.

Thanks, I look forward to seeing you there,

David

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MEETING LOCATION INFORMATION

Location Address:

Oracle Conference Center
350 Oracle Parkway
Redwood City, CA 94065
Phone: 650-633-8300
Fax: 650-633-8399

Link to Map

Here is also a link to download directions


Directions to Oracle Conference Center

Southbound – Take Highway 101 South (toward San Jose) to the Ralston Ave./Marine World Parkway exit. Turn left at the signal at the top of the exit which will take you over the freeway. Make a left at the second light onto Oracle Parkway. 350 Oracle Parkway will be on the right.

Northbound – Take Highway 101 North (toward San Francisco) to the Ralston Ave./Marine World Parkway exit. Turn right at the signal at the top of the exit . Make a left at the first light onto Oracle Parkway. 350 Oracle Parkway will be on the right.

Parking – The Conference Center has a designated parking lot located directly across from the building. If the lot is filled there is also additional parking in any of the parking garages located near by. No parking permits are needed.

HOTEL INFORMATION

Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay Airport
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065

Special Conference Rate is $179.00 per night

Make sure you ask for the Open Applications Group Rate


Tel: (650)598-9000 No Credit Card Access Charges
Fax: (650)598-0459 6 p.m. Cancellation Policy
Parking: Free

The Sofitel will also provide shuttle transportation to and from the Oracle facility at no charge. The shuttle will run every 15 minutes.

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