Implementation of Materials Declaration Management Standards
Material Composition Data Exchange (completed)
Data Exchange Convergence (completed)
Virtual Factory Information Interchange (completed)
Plug & Play Factory (completed)

PDX 2.0 (APEX 2004 meeting, February 24)

Agenda

Product Data eXchange Overview & Adoption, Richard Kubin (E2open), Chair, NEMI Business Leadership Team

PDX Use at Lucent Technologies, Butch Morel (Lucent)

Agile Software's Perspective on PDX, Dries D'hooghe (Agile)

PDX 2.0 Activities. Richard Kubin (E2open)

In Search of the Perfect Bill of Materials: Improving NPI Metrics, presented by Chuck Richardson (NEMI), September 22, 2003, SMTA International conference (Chicago, IL). (paper)      (presentation)

APEX 2003 Presentations

"Product Lifecycle Information Management: Business Trends and Anticipated Technology Needs," Barbara Goldstein, NIST.

"The PDX Standard at Work: A View From the Field," Doug Furbush, Manufacturing Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology.

"NIST Internet Commerce for Manufacturing Testbed: Exploring Supply Chain Integration in Manufacturing Using E-Commerce Standards and Technologies," John Messina, NIST.

The Perfect Bill of Materials (BoM)

"Improving Supply Chain Communications (Dismantling the Tower of Babel)," Jim McElroy, proceedings of Convergence 2002 Transportation Electronics Conference, October 21-23, 2002, Detroit, MI.

NEMI has had several projects related to shop floor and supply chain communication. Link to the project sites listed below for additional information, including press releases, articles and presentations.

Data Exchange Convergence Project (completed)
Virtual Factory Information Interchange Project (completed)
Plug & Play Factory Project (completed)

APEX 2002 Presentations

Spanning the Virtual Factory - Managing Supply Chain Communications (January 21, 2002)

CAD/CAM Data Convergence (January 24, 2002)

APEX 2001 Presentations

Data Exchange Convergence project presentations (January 15, 2001)

Supply Chain Partners in Collaboration - A Standardized Industry Approach (January 17, 2001)

Miscellaneous articles

"The Key to the Electronics Lifecycle," Richard Kubin, E2open, and Barbara Goldstein, NIST, APICS - The Performance Advantage, November/December 2003 (cover story), pp. 33-35.

"NEMI's Jim McElroy: 'e-commerce fits new supply chain'," M&A/Partnerships, PCB 007 (01.24.01).

"Restructuring of Electronics Industry: Anchors on the Slippery Slope of Outsourcing," Jim McElroy and Rod Walker, Future EMS International, Issue 3, 2000.

"Open Architecture Platforms," Dave Faulkner, Ben Levy, and Tim Garner, Circuits Assembly January 1999.