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Automotive Manufacturing & Production, May, 2000

Such things as the Internet and math-based simulation and processing will be key parts of the SAE Automotive Manufacturing Conference and Exposition (AMCE 2000), which will be held June 5-7 at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn, Michigan. General Motors is the host of this year's event, which has the theme "Manufacturing @ Web Speed." General Motors is working hard on "order-to-delivery;" Robert Anderson, plant manager of the GM Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant that's under construction in Lansing, MI, notes, "We'll be at the edge of that." Those people who attend the AMCE 2000 sessions will be, too.

Major tracks at the event are: e-development; integrated supply chain, e-factory, and the lean enterprise (Jim Womack, undoubtedly the most widely noted authority on lean, is scheduled to be there).

And although GM is the host, this is a cross-industry event, with representation from other major auto manufacturers, and suppliers (not only component suppliers, but even from the companies that are involved in developing the Internet exchanges being established in the industry).

Concurrent with the AMCE 2000 technical program will be the Automotive Manufacturing Expo, with an assortment of manufacturing systems hardware, software and services being represented.

(By the way: AM&P is the "official" magazine of AMCE 2000.)