28th of September 2004

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Challenges and Strategies, Logistics and Manufacturing
AKJAutomotive, BMW, Bosch, Exel Logistics, DaimlerChrysler, Dräxlmaier, EDS, Exel Logistics, Ford, FORMEX (Magna), FTE, gedas, General Motors, Honda, IPL Prof. Schmidt, ITESM, Kostal, Ryder, Schefenacker Hungary, Siemens VDO, Tremec, UDLA, UPAEP, UNAM, Volkswagen, WOCO Others.

Conference languages spanish and english.

08:00	Opening Conference Office and Exhibition
	Registration and visit exhibition
	Opening of the Conference
08:30	Dr. Roberto Rueda, Rector of Central Zone, Tecnológico de Monterrey Dr. Pedro Grasa, General Director, Tecnológico de Monterrey, State of Mexico Campus Dr. NN, Ambassador of Germany, Mexico City Johannes Hauser, General Director, CAMEXA Prof. Dr. Klaus-J. Schmidt, AKJ Automotive, IPL, Saarbrücken, Germany
	Session A - Challenges and Strategies Automotive Moderation: Prof. Dr. Klaus-J. Schmidt (IPL/AKJ) and Dr. Victor Lopez (ITESM)
09:00 09:40 10:20	Otto Lindner, President, Volkswagen, Puebla Strategies for Mexico - New Challenges and Opportunities for Local and Global Suppliers of Volkswagen in the Global Supplier Context. ----- Dr. Robert Greim, BMW, Vice President, Leipzig, Germany BMW New Plants - The last New Automotive Plant in Germany, Strategy and Concept and Results to get more efficiency in all Plant´s processes. ----- Break and exhibition
	Session B- Challenges and Strategies Automotive Moderation: Tom Rucker (MagnaDriveTrain) and Klaus Ruemler (gedas Mexico)
10:50 11:30 12:10	Hector de Hoyos, General Plant Manager, General Motors de Mexico, Saltillo, Coah, México Plant Scoring – Strategies and activities to achieve pole position in production and logistics. ----- Oscar Albin, Purchasing Director, DaimlerChrysler, Mexico OEM Strategies - Strategies to manage higher Productivity with Suppliers in a more flexible Market. ----- Lunch and exhibition
	Session C - Challenge Logistics Moderation: Peter Zeilinger (AKJ) and NN
14:00 14:35 15:10 15:50 16:25 17:00 19:00	Rudolf Werner, DaimlerChrysler, Manager Processes and Methods, Untertürkheim, Germany Supplier Management Base - Integration and control of Suppliers with processintegrated Workflows, Tools and Systems. ------ Ricardo de la Concha, General Manager, Kostal Suppliers integration- First tier’s global strategies to integrate local suppliers into modular supply chain. ----- Break and exhibition ----- Víctor Torres, General Plant Manager, Valeo Plant Process Improvement - Tools to improve the operation results at Valeo - a practical example. ----- Augustin Croche, Director New Business Development Logistic service provider strategies - 3pl strategies to support OEMs and Suppieres in Mexico. ----- Infos about AKJ Mexico and Cediam K. Ruemler (Gedas), K.-J. Schmidt (IPL), R. Swain (ITESM) End of lectures first day ---- Evening Event [More...]
	Session D - Challenge Manufacturing and Engineering Moderation: A. Preinfalk (Siemens) and Armando Bravo (ITESM)
14:00 14:35 15:10 15:50 16:25 17:00 19:00	Alejandro Sauter, Siemens VDO, General Manager, Guadalajara The Siemens Production System - The way to achieve and implemet a general standard to production facilities in México. ----- Dr. Karl-Heinz Spies, Freudenberg-Simrit, Weinheim, Germany New engineering concepts - Ways to achieve cost reduction and new quality levels with an early collaboration in the design phase. ----- Break and exhibition ----- Logistische Herausforderungen eines neuen Dräxlmaier-Standorts in Mexiko Werner Lexa, Plant Manager, Dräxlmaier Group, San Luis Potosi Implement optimized prozesses - Challenges for logistics at the location of the new Drälmaier location in México. ----- Heiko Chudzick, Technical Director, Thyssen-Krupp-Automotive, Puebla SCM/Logistics to optimize Production - New Concept to produce JiT/JiS and in batches with different signals in just one production line. ----- Infos about AKJ Mexico and Cediam K. Ruemler (Gedas), K.-J. Schmidt (IPL), R. Swain (ITESM) End of lectures first day ---- Evening Event [More...]
	Session E - Challenge Logistics and IT Moderation: Dr. Ricardo Swain (ITESM) and NN
14:00 14:35 15:10 15:50 16:25 17:00 19:00	Dr. Stefan Jacobs, WOCO, Board Member, Bad Soden, Germany New paradigm in the European supply chain – New solutions to control the container flow in the supply chain with sub-suppliers. ----- Heiko Karnitschky, Mahle, Manager Logistics, Stuttgart, Germany Supply Chain Collaboration without backup – New processes to a full integration of suppliers into the supply chain responsibility ----- Break and exhibition ----- German Rivera, Delivery Director of Manufacturing for General Motors, EDS México e-Strategies Automotive - Strategies, Solutions and experiences to implement the Suppliers into a general e-business Platform ------ Gerardo Ruiz, General Director, Linde-Pullman, Mexico Processes and IT-Solutions - Concepts and solutions to program and control company and factory ----- Infos about AKJ Mexico and Cediam K. Ruemler (Gedas), K.-J. Schmidt (IPL), R. Swain (ITESM) End of lectures first day ---- Evening Event [More...]