2007

Deadline 15 December 2006

Please consider presenting a paper at the 22^nd annual DFMA International Forum.  The forum will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Providence-Warwick, Rhode Island.  The dates are June 19 and 20, 2007.

From attendees' responses to our previous conferences our audience is particularly interested in learning about successes in implementing DFMA techniques during the design of new products, during benchmarking, and in purchasing.  Attendees wish to learn from your experiences and are especially appreciative when these deal with the problems to be overcome in introducing and implementing DFMA design tools.

Specific items of interest would include:

• Studies of product design from concept to production
• Company case studies of the use of DFMA during early product definition and concept development
• Lean manufacturing initiatives
• Experiences with life-cycle analysis, including design for service and design for the environment
• Procedures for implementation of concurrent engineering tools
• Implementing PLM

As before, we expect a large audience and do not plan to organize parallel sessions.

If you would be interested in presenting a paper, please complete the form at http://www.dfma.com/forum/callforpapers.htm by December 15, 2006.  Notification of speaker selection will be mailed in January, 2007