D.H. Brown Associates, Inc., Announces Opening Keynote Speakers for PLM Road Map 2003

PORT CHESTER, N.Y.--July 24, 2003--D.H. Brown Associates, Inc. (DHBA) announces the keynote speaker lineup for opening its conference, Product Lifecycle Management Road Map 2003, to be held October 28 & 29 at The Dearborn Inn, Dearborn, Michigan. The conference theme covers Operational Innovation for Cross-Functional Collaboration.

Chris Couch, Toyota North America's Manager of Operations Strategy, will address Cross-Functional Business-Process Kaizen; John Waraniak, Director of DHBA's Automotive/Aerospace Advisory Board, will discuss Design for Supply: Accelerating Bill-of-Material Reuse; and Lorie Buckingham, Visteon Corporation's VP and CIO, will present on Visteon's program for Aligning IT and Engineering for Transformational Change.

The last thirty years have seen the creation of ever-higher walls around the silos of functional specialists. Relatively little coordination was achieved between silos to define final products, or to speed reconciliation of tradeoffs across product lifecycles. The drive to reconcile and share multiple views across the enterprise now supports the potential to drive design cycle times and design costs down dramatically. Many companies have aggressively moved to Up Front Simulation and Manufacturing early in product design, driving virtual representations through manufacturing and downstream. Now, the greatest opportunity and pressing need to further apply technology will link isolated silos and provide consistent information architecture serving the complete product lifecycle. The potential for productivity gains across the full enterprise has never been greater.

For the latest information on PLM Road Map 2003 visit our website at http://www.dhbrown.com/events/plm2003.cfm or e-mail events@dhbrown.com. Members of the Press wishing to attend this event should e-mail Cheryl Peck at cheryl@dhbrown.com.

About Product Lifecycle Management Road Map 2003

Product Lifecycle Management Road Map 2003 is a strategic conference focused on the use of multiple representations across the full product lifecycle, knowledge capture and reuse, design collaboration, PLM interoperability, physical architecture, systems engineering, reduction of complexity in product and process, manufacturing simulation, sourcing, business benefits of PLM integration, and more. The conference provides an unparalleled opportunity to meet with DHBA's team of industry analysts and key industry players as they share their experiences with making technology work by linking it across the full product lifecycle.