DoD’s Global Collaborative Manufacturing (GCM)Initiative / Network Centric Manufacturing (NCM)

NDIA Manufacturing Division, August 14, 2008

Eric Mittelstadt, CEO

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Industry(OEM’s & Suppliers)

Government (Local, State, Federal)

Facilitators (Academia, Associations,

& Research Organizations)

NACFAMBelow-the-line: requires “intense collaboration”

NACFAM’s Mission

To Broker the “Intense Collaboration” Required to Strengthen U.S. Manufacturing

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IndustryIndustry

Sample of NACFAM Members

Research UniversitiesResearch Universities

AssociationsAssociations

Research OrganizationsResearch Organizations

Federal Federal AgenciesAgencies

Community Community CollegesColleges

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Sustainable and globally competitive based upon innovative practices & policies that continue to “Raise the Playing Field”

AdvancedManufacturing NetworkTechnologies Centric& Processes Strategies

Workforce SustainableDevelopment & ManufacturingLife-Long Learning Models

NACFAM Scenario for U.S. Manufacturing

Raising the Playing Field Innovation to Commercialization

Superhighway

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Solving Tomorrow's Challenges:

Complex Societal Challenges Include:• Energy, Water, Food, Health Care, Infrastructure, Defense,

Environment, Etc.

Solutions must utilize more:• Sustainable technologies, practices and business models

“Raising the Playing Field” requires more:• Ability to accelerate innovative solutions into the

marketplace (to the warfighter)• Open & collaborative network centric business model

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How can the U.S. compete?

US advantages: • Ability to Innovative• Ability to Commercialize• Collaborative Innovation, Sustainability, GCM/NCM, High

Skills, New Technologies, Entrepreneurialism, Infrastructure, Financial Capital

Mastering and collaborating with these innovation ingredients (within a global network) becomes increasingly critical for U.S. manufacturing to remain global competitive and sustainable

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Global Innovation-Based Competition

In the past, innovation was mostly based upon one’s internal innovation ability• Bell Labs, GM Research, Xerox PARC, GE Research,

Lockheed Skunk Works, et al

Today, innovation is too complex to remain internal to the company• Entire supply chain must innovate (Jointer Striker Fighter)• Not without some setbacks (Boeing 787 Dreamliner)

Tomorrow, open and collaborative innovation will dominate• Networks of innovation (Nanotechnology, Advanced

Energy, Biogenetics, Sustainable Development, et al)

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Target Destination - EnablingNetwork Centric Manufacturing

Network Centric Manufacturing

Where agile partners exploit new capabilities in:

(1) connectivity (for data and information) and (2) collaboration (among people and organizations)

to enable greater advanced manufacturing innovation, productivity, & sustainability throughout the extended enterprise & over the total life-cycle of products.

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Network Centric Manufacturing Terminology

Network for a reason

Not net centric (i.e., we don’t mean just the Internet, which is for data and information)

We do mean network,

which is for people, organizations, companies

For example, one multi-billion $ company said IT

is really big, but it’s only about 20% of the solution;

80% is the people, the relationships, the trust, and the mutual commitment to shared goals

DoD Name – Global Collaborative Manufacturing !!!

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The Macro View – What’s Different?

• Reduce– Rigid Supply Chains– Functional Boundaries & Silos– Hierarchies– Command and Control

• Heighten Capabilities• Digital Thread • Interoperability & Standards• Intense Collaboration & Smart Trust• Performance Measures & Complexity Management

at Systems Level for Product Life Cycle Solutions

• Redefined Manufacturing Skill Sets

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Statement of Intent

A global enterprise capability for manufacturing and

logistics that is customer focused,, information based,

embraces innovation, builds from the best commercially

available capabilities, promotes appropriate

competitiveness, and is resistant to all kinds of

disruptions (known/anticipated and the yet-to-be-

defined/unknown disruptions).

To Achieve National Security Mandated Capability and US Industrial Base Competitiveness Will Require:

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How do we get people to think in terms of the network, change the paradigm?