"Strategic Direction for the Motors & Drives Industry"

April 30 - May 2, 2003

Fess Parker Resort, Santa barbara

Wednesday, April 30

9:00 am - 5:00 pm SMMA Motor & Motion College Course: Fundamentals of Brushless Motor Control

Instructor: Dal Y. Ohm, Ph.D., President, DriveTech Inc., (separate registration required, lunch included).

The purpose of this course is to provide fundamental concepts and knowledge necessary to design or apply dc and brushless motor drives for design engineers and field application engineers in the motion control industry. The course will include a brief discussion on the magnetic and mechanical structure of the various motor types to understand torque production mechanisms and to derive a circuit model. Course content will also cover most of the basic skills in designing brush and brushless dc motor drives including power electronic circuits, analog and digital motor control hardware, gate drive and feedback sensors, with particular emphasis on motor control algorithms and servo systems. Practical and useful procedures in selecting components and methods, rule of thumb design rules and performance versus cost tradeoff will be discussed from the instructor's years of experience in research and development of many different types of drives.

1:00 - 5:00 pm EMERF (Electric Motor Education and Research Foundation) Workshop: Combining the EMERF Lamination Steels Database with Motor Simulation Programs

Daniel B. Jones, President, Incremotion Associates Inc., and Steve Sprague, Sales Manager, Proto Laminations Inc. (separate registration)

The EMERF database for soft iron and steels used in electric motors, continuously being refined, is an important tool for more accurate motor design techniques. The magnetic saturation (first quadrant) curves and the core loss curves provide the motor design engineer with key design information. The EMERF data will be combined with PC-BDC, a SPEED brushless permanent magnet motor design program, to illustrate the basics of precision motor design. The workshop will cover the selection and evaluation process for soft irons, steels and permanent magnets, as they pertain to overall motor performance.

1:30 - 4:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

2:30 - 4:30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

2:30 - 4:30 Motor & Motion College Committee Meeting

3:00 - 4:30 Marketing Communications/Membership Committee Meeting

3:00 - 4:30 Technology Committee Meeting

6:00 - 9:00 Santa Barbara Reception and Barbeque

Reception hosts: Ispat Inland - Morrill Motors - Proto Laminations - RENCO Encoders - Thermik Corp - Machine Design - Tempel Steel

Thursday, May 1

7:30 - 8:00 Contintental Breakfast with Table Top Exhibits by:

Accenture; Drives Research Corp.; EMERF; Entry Group; Globe Products Inc.; Michael Day Enterprises Inc.; Motion Tech Trends; Proto Laminations Inc.; RENCO Encoders Inc.; SIB Engineering; Shin-Etsu Magnetics; SolidWorks Corp.; Superior Essex; Thermik; Tuson Corp.; Yeadon Energy Systems Inc.

8:00 - 12:00 MEETING IN SESSION

8:00 - 8:15 Welcome, Introductions and Announcements

Robert L. Fisher, Vice President Engineering, Danaher-PMI, HV Group and SMMA President who will introduce Bruce Vaughan, Marketing Consultant, Tempel Steel Co., SMMA Board of Directors and Conference Chair.

8:15 - 9:00 The Strategic Side of Execution

Charles J. Schultz, President, Entry Group A strategy is a plan that is in sync with the realities of the marketplace, the economy and the competition. Once the strategy is in place, it is linked to an operating process that results in the implementation of specific programs and actions that assign accountability. Chuck has over 25 years technical and sales/marketing experience in the motion control industry. His presentation on The Strategic Side of Execution will be tailored for the motors and drives industry.

9:00 - 9:45 Relationship Management

Bill Reed, Engineering Manager, Baldor Electric Co. What we all want to do is attract and keep good employees. Unfortunately, even in bad economic times, many companies still lose the best and brightest. Why? The answer may surprise you, but they don't leave because of the company, but because of a poor relationship with their boss (manager). If we want to attract and maintain the best employees, we will have to build relationships with them. This is good management.

9:45 - 10:15 Break with Table Top Exhibits

10:15 - 11:00 Industrial Telematics: Today, Emerging and What the Future Holds

Jim Wejman, Associate Partner, Industrial Equipment Practice, Accenture Innovative companies in the manufacturing/industrial space are beginning to recognize the value of telematics- wirelessly enabled, two-way communication between a vehicle or piece of equipment with embedded computing power and its external environment. While some of the supporting technologies for telematics have been around for more than a decade, the transformational potential it represents is only now being fully understood.

Industrial facilities involved in manufacturing and power generation are particularly ripe for transformation through telematics. Embedded computers and communications devices, which already exist at most industrial sites, can be combined with wireless technologies to transform a factory floor into an "aware environment" where intelligent pieces of equipment are in effect conscious of their status and surroundings. They can interact with technicians and automate record keeping and, ultimately, the regulatory and compliance process.

In the past, the enormous cost of tethering pieces of equipment in industrial settings together with a central monitoring facility prohibited the spread of self-monitoring systems. But that's changing as technology costs decline and new methods come online.

11:00 - 11:30 Marketing Industrial Components with Downloadable CAD Models

Ramsay Hoguet, Product Marketing Manager, SolidWorks Corp. Manufacturers of motors, actuators, bearings and other industrial components are quickly realizing that offering downloadable CAD models of their products through online catalogs is a cost-effective way to attract new engineering customers and increase their market share.

With shorter and shorter product development cycles, engineers need to complete their designs for finished goods faster than ever. Supplier websites that offer interactive 3D models and 2D drawings of their components help design engineers increase productivity by allowing them to download and 'design in' a supplier's components. The result: a distinct sales advantage essential for growing your business and outpacing the competition. Learn how component manufacturers are using 3D-powered catalogs to:

· Attract New Customers

· Build Customer Loyalty

· Increase Sales

The session will include success stories of leading component manufacturers; demonstrations of production websites; and a demonstration of an online CAD model resource that brings highly qualified sales leads from an audience of many design engineers.

A Thursday afternoon break-out session is scheduled for additional information on 3D PartStream.NET

11:30 - 12:00 The Death of American Manufacturing

John Bank, Chairman and CEO Phoenix Electric Manufacturing Co. An objective analysis of what is currently happening with American manufacturing: its present condition, an examination of the causes and viepoints underlying the present state of affairs and a discussion of what the future holds.

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch on your own

1:30 - 2:30 - Tour of RENCO Encoders Inc. Host - Dan Baxter, VP/GM

1:30 - 3:00 - Breakout Group: 3D PartStream.Net Facilitator - Ramsay Hoguet, Product Marketing Manager, SolidWorks Corp.

1:30 - 6:00 Golf at Glen Annie or other recreation

7:00 - 8:00 Cash Bar Reception

8:00 - 10:00 California Wine Country Buffet

Friday, May 2

7:30 - 8:00 Contintental Breakfast with Table Top Exhibits

8:00 - 12:00 MEETING IN SESSION

8:00 - 9:00 The Motors Business in China

James R. Dick, Senior VP Strategic Marketing, Johnson Electric Group, Mr. Dick will provide an overview of industrial developments in China and a snapshot of the micromotors business. He will look at motor outsourcing trends in China, and review partner/supplier selection criteria. Dick also will present an overview of the competitive situation for motors in China ("China Brandscape").

9:00 - 10:00 Global Electronic Motor Drive Market & Industry Update

Thomas C. Kaporch, President, Drives Research Corp. Despite the current global economic slowdown, the worldwide market for electronic motor drives continues to grow driven by the need for greater energy efficiency, higher productivity, greater precision and more flexibility in traditional products and processes and by a host of new mechatronic products and processes that both require and are enabled by electronically-controlled electric motors. The size and direction of the market for electronic motor drives is examined by type of drive, geographical region, power level, end-market and application. The evolving structure of the industry and its competitive environment is also discussed, with leading trends and players identified. An assessment of the industry's current and future technologies is also made.

10:00 - 10:30 Break with Table Top Exhibits

10:30 - 11:00 SMMA Annual Meeting

11:00 - 12:00 Economic Outlook or The End of the "Abnormally Mild Recovery Trend"

Martha Thomas, Economist, Institute for Trend Research An economist with ITR since 1995, Martha Thomas has used applied research techniques to examine business cycle trend analysis, growth cycle trend analysis and the utilization of cyclical analysis at a practical business level. Through the Institute she has been consulting and advising companies throughout the United States and Europe on how to plan for, and prosper through, the business cycle, specifically targeting potential ramifications on capital, resource needs, labor, capacity, pricing, interest rates, competitive pressures and gross margins. Marty will review domestic and international economic issues with emphasis on markets important to the motors and drives industry

12:00 Adjournment

12:00 - 3:00 Table Top Exhibitor Tear-Down

12:30 - 4:30 SMMA Board of Directors Meeting with working lunch at 12:30 pm.

Saturday, May 3

8:00 - 11:30 EMERF Board of Directors Meeting with continental breakfast at 8:00 am

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