WJR Radio To Cover AutoMan Global 2004 Meeting

LONDON, May 27, 2004 -- In a unique partnership, AMS magazine and WJR-AM 760 will showcase speeches and discussion from automakers' and suppliers' top executives on 8 and 9 June at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dearborn, Michigan in the first global automotive manufacturing conference, AutoMan Global 2004.

Organised by Automotive Manufacturing Solutions (AMS) magazine, the AutoMan Global conference aims to provide top executives with an exclusive platform to share their knowledge and concerns with the objective of searching for global solutions. It offers key industry players the opportunity to meet and discuss, in open debate or through private conversations, the latest trends, strategies and opinions.

WJR-AM 760 reaches 1,000,000 people per week both nationally and locally, delivering up-to-date information to the state's largest group of auto executives, engineers and chemists, reaching over 36,000 auto industry professionals weekly. The station features 35 automotive reports weekly that also go out to other key areas outside of Detroit, ie Ann Arbor, Lansing, Grand Rapids and beyond in Ohio, Indiana and Canada.

Simon Duval Smith, conference chairman says "With sessions including flexibility and lean manufacturing, automation and robotics, press shop, safety and plant design and integration, AutoMan Global promises to be the must-attend automaking forum of the year. We have speakers and visitors from all over the US, Canada and Europe, testament to the need for such a global event."

Confirmed speakers and panel members include: Charles Wu, Ford Motor Co - Sundar Balu, Woodhead Industries - Ross Robson, Utah State University - Al Hufstetler, UGS PLM Solutions - Phillip Disch, General Motors - Mariana Forrest, DaimlerChrysler Corporation - Stanley Ream, Edison Welding Institute - John Pabst, Su-Dan Corporation - James Thomas, DaimlerChrysler Corporation - Harold Shelton, General Motors - Mike White, General Motors - Thomas Pilz, Pilz Automation Safety - Joseph Lazzara, Scientific Technologies, Inc. - Mark Wiktorski, Liberty Precision Industries - Erich Kibler, Nothelfer Inc - Neil Willetts, Comau Pico - Joseph Hinrichs, Ford Motor Co - David Logozzo, Delphi Corporation - William Guerra, DaimlerChrysler Corporation - James Ricci, Harbour and Associates, Inc. - Peter Schmitt, Delmia Corporation - Paul Wollschlager, Jr., Ford Motor Co - Hans Hofele, Schuler Presses GmbH & Co. Kg - Klaus Rothenhagen, Müller Weingarten Ag - Manfred Eibeck, Magna Steyr - Lizabeth Ardisana, Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce - Keith Cooley, FocusHope - Mahesh Lunani, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants LLC.

AutoMan Global 2004 is supported by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Detroit Regional Economic Partnership; and sponsored by Arcelor Auto, Delmia, IIC, IPF America, KabelSchlepp, Pepperl + Fuchs, Pilz, Schneider Electric, STI, City of Sunderland, Tornos, Uddeholm, UGS PLM Solutions and Woodhead.

Last minute registrations still open. More information about AutoMan Global 2004 can be found on www.automanglobal.com

Press release contact: Alex Campos Morales, Marketing Manager, alex.campos@ultimamedia.org, +44 (0)20 8987 0967