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Collaborative Expedition Workshop #35:Design Workshop to Frame National Dialogue on Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing

and Implications for e-Government

September 14, 2004National Science Foundation

Room 555, Stafford IIBallston, VA

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Introduction to Collaborative Expedition Workshop Series

– Learning opportunities for individuals and policy-makers from all sectors: government, business, and non-government organizations

– Practice Intergovernmental Collaboration to advance the Citizen-Centric Government Goal of the President's Management Agenda.

– Accelerate multi-sector partnerships around IT capabilities that help government work better on behalf of all citizens

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Introduction• Organize participation around common purpose, larger

than any institution, including government.

• Learn how to appreciate multiple perspectives around the potentials and realities of this larger "purpose“

• Improve quality of the dialogue and collaborations at the crossroads of intergovernmental initiatives, Communities of Practice, Federal IT research and IT user agencies

• Subsequent actions by individuals representing many forms of expertise, can be expressed more effectively in their respective settings.

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Introduction• Key finding: Apply emerging technologies (web services, grid

computing, and semantic web) to tune up the innovation pipeline with better linkages among business incubators (state economic development programs), innovation diffusion networks (SBIR, angel investors, etc.) and business intelligence centers that understand e-government and e-commerce gaps.

• Many agile business components from small business not easily discovered by e-government managers – leads to lost or delayed opportunities for both parties.

• Quarterly Emerging Components Conference Series initiated. Four national dialogue conferences have been held thus far: two at the White House Conference Center, one at the Washington DC Convention Center and one at MITRE. For more information see: http://componenttechnology.org. Intelligent Manufacturing?

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Introduction• Workshop Series Sponsors:

– The General Services Administration's Office of Intergovernmental Solutions.

– Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the Federal CIO Council.

– National Coordination Office of the Interagency Committee on IT R&D (Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development (SEW) Coordinating Group).

– All value this "frontier outpost" to open up quality conversations, augmented by information technology, to leverage the collaborative capacity of united, but diverse sectors of society, seeking to discover, frame, and act on national potentials.

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Sept. 14 Workshop Organizers

• Susan Turnbull, GSA• Suzi Iacono, NSF• Steve Ray, NIST• Peter Yim, CIM Engineering, Inc.• George Hazelrigg, NSF

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Introduction• To help our Enterprise Architecture, Emerging

Technology, and Federal Networking and Information Technology Research & Development (NITRD) communities understand the broad implications of Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing:– What lessons from the manufacturing sector offer valuable

context for intergovernmental agreements around knowledge sharing and enterprise innovations?

– What is unfolding at the frontier of this important Information Space today?

– What are the strategic priorities and relationships that can frame the planning for national dialogue around this strategic opportunity?

– Who needs to be included in this dialogue?– What are the implications for Intelligent Information Use in

Manufacturing, in light of the global build-out of cyber-infrastructure?

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Introduction• Continued:

– What environmental, trade, and corporate (both tangible and intangible assets) governance mechanisms are inextricably linked to this global connectedness?

– Will automated integration be achieved as trusted relationships mature?

– What are the implications and challenges likely to arise for US industry (regulated and non-regulated), financial institutions, shareholders, state economic development programs, and global intermediaries?

– How can we anticipate the realistic scenarios needed to form sound alliances and manage risk?

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Agenda• 8:30 a.m. - Check-in, Box Lunch Order ($8.00/person)

and Coffee• 9:00 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction:

– Susan Turnbull, GSA, Emerging Technology Subcommittee, Brand Niemann, EPA, Emerging Technology Subcommittee and Semantic Interoperability CoP, Knowledge Management Subcommittee, Steve Ray, NIST, Peter Yim, CIM Engineering, Inc., Suzi Iacono, NSF, and George Hazelrigg, NSF

• 9:15 a.m. - Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing - Some Government Perspectives:– Steve Ray, Chief, Manufacturing Systems Integration Division,

National Institute of Standards and Technology– George A. Hazelrigg, Program Director for Manufacturing

Machines and Equipment, Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation, National Science Foundation

• 10:15 a.m. - BREAK

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Agenda• 10:30 a.m.- Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing - Industry

Perspectives:– Leo Reddy, CEO and Founder, National Coalition for Advanced

Manufacturing– Alexander Morgan, Principal Research Scientist, Manufacturing

Systems Research Laboratory, General Motors– Adrian Walker, CTO, Reengineering, LLC

• 12:00-noon - Networking Lunch• 1:00 p.m.- Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing - Academic

Perspectives:– SK Gupta, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland– Zhi-Long Chen, R H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland– Representative from Semantic Web and Agent Technologies Program,

Maryland Information & Network Dynamics Laboratory, University of Maryland

• 2:00 p.m. - BREAK

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Agenda• 2:30 p.m. - Panel Session addressing some key

questions:– What are the Potentials and Realities for National Dialogue

Around Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing?– What are the Strategic Priorities and Relationships that We Can

Build Upon?– Commitment to Action and Reflection: Next Steps Toward

National Dialogue• 3:45 p.m. - Reflections from workshop presenters and

participants:– What are the principal findings from the dialogue around

strategic priorities and relationships?– How has this "larger landscape" relative to Intelligent Information

Use in Manufacturing influenced your perspective on actions that could be taken toward this purpose as a strategic leader in your setting?

• 4:15 p.m. - ADJOURN

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Some Questions Face-to-Face & Virtual Workshops

• 1. What are the Potentials and Realities for National Dialogue Around Intelligent Manufacturing?– a. What is the future of manufacturing for the US?– b. What is the value of a strong manufacturing sector to the

economy of the nation?– c. Eventually when efficiency and productivity catches up, the

total size of the workforce that needs to be involved in manufacturing (globally) will come down (like what has happened in agriculture)

– d. What are the challenges arising for US industry (regulated and non-regulated), financial institutions, shareholders, state economic development programs, and global intermediaries?

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Some Questions Face-to-Face & Virtual Workshops

• 1. What are the Potentials and Realities for National Dialogue Around Intelligent Manufacturing? (continued)– e. What are the implications of "outsourcing" production, then

pilot production, then engineering, then design and eventually R&D?

– f. How could the nation capture and retain more benefits or earlier benefits from manufacturing research?

– g. What would be a good strategy when facing globalization? What are the implications for Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing, in light of the global build-out of cyber-infrastructure?

– h. What environmental, trade, and corporate (both tangible and intangible assets) governance mechanisms are inextricably linked to our growing global connectedness?

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Some Questions Face-to-Face & Virtual Workshops

• 2. What are the strategic priorities and relationships that could frame planning for national dialogue around this strategic opportunity? Who needs to be included in this dialogue?– a. What lessons from the manufacturing sector offer valuable context for

intergovernmental agreements around knowledge-sharing and enterprise innovations?

– b. How could government, academe and industry more effectively share information on manufacturing technology and research results?

– c. In light of a distributed-intelligence manufacturing scenario:• - What are good strategies for US business?• - What new roles and relationships among manufacturing actors could be

supported by enterprise information integration?• - What is a US business anyway?

– d. What about employment and the job situation?– e. What is the role of new connection-making technologies in advancing

shared understanding among diverse groups of manufacturing domain actors? Will automated integration be achieved as trusted relationships mature?

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Some Questions Face-to-Face & Virtual Workshops

• 2. What are the strategic priorities and relationships that could frame planning for national dialogue around this strategic opportunity? Who needs to be included in this dialogue? (continued)

– f. How could we anticipate the realistic scenarios needed to form sound alliances and manage risk?

– g. How could semantic technologies support rapid connection-making that is valued for enhancing capacity and discernment, as evidenced by the increasing number of effective, but simultaneous roles and relationships that individuals maintain within and across manufacturing and other areas of human endeavor?

– h. What joint governance mechanisms are needed to mature the conducive environments needed by trusted practitioner networks of manufacturers? How can small business innovators be included? How could the manner in which they work (horizontally and vertically) be transformed?

– i. Will business incubators (state economic development programs) and innovation diffusion networks (SBIR, seed investment, angel investors, etc.) have a role as frontier outposts for Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing?

– j. How could Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing contribute to the triple bottom line - Environment, Social and Economic aspects of corporate performance?

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Some Questions Face-to-Face & Virtual Workshops

• 3. Commitment to Action and Reflection: Next Steps Toward National Dialogue– a. What are the implications of new ways of organizing for better

problem-formulation and action?– b. What is the role of Communities of Practice in problem-centered

development that cuts across boundaries using web tools to support connection-making and accelerate learning that contributes to global competitiveness?

– c. How could open dialogue with transparency of records support understanding, trust and mitigate risk within and across interrelated domains?

– d. Will frontier outposts of early adopters deploy open standard, semantic technologies to "distill" the context-aware -data - information and knowledge needed by people and machines to solve problems within complex adaptive systems?

– e. How can the tools needed by diverse people to augment their "collective intelligence" around manufacturing be designed to support and not hobble people's natural forms of expertise?

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Introduction• Continued:

– How can Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing contribute to the triple bottom line - Environment, Social and Economic aspects of corporate performance?

– Will business incubators (state economic development programs) and innovation diffusion networks (SBIR, seed investment, angel investors, etc.) have a role as frontier outposts for Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing?

– Will frontier outposts for Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing be the first adopters of open, semantic technologies (like ontological standards or semantic web-services) that "distill" and "apply" the smart-data, -information and -knowledge needed by both people and machines to solve complex problems within their work environments?

– How can the relationships, business processes, and tools needed by diverse people to augment their "collective intelligence" around manufacturing be designed to support and not hobble, people's natural forms of expertise?

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Introduction

• Past Workshop Archives, Collaborative Pilots, and Related Resources:– http://ua-exp.gov– http://colab.cim3.net– http://web-services.gov– http://componenttechnology.org– http://www.gsa.gov/intergov– http://www.itrd.gov

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Introduction• Upcoming Events:

– September, 20-22, 2004, Enterprise Architecture Conference, September 21, 2:15-3:30 p.m., Session 3-5: Best Practices for Adopting Service-Oriented Architectures.

– October 19, 2004, Collaborative Expedition-Emerging Technology Workshop #36 at the NSF. Evolving a Multi-Stakeholder Process for Identifying Emerging Technology Using Ontology and Taxonomy Best Practices: Introduction to Tiger Teams and Sprints.

– October 25, 2004, Fifth Emerging Technology Components Conference, Hosted at MITRE.

• See Componenttechnology.Org for details.– November 17, 2004, Collaborative Expedition-

Emerging Technology Workshop #37 at the NSF.