ARC's Annual Forum: Driving Enterprise Performance through Next Generation Manufacturing Concepts.

DEDHAM, Mass. -- Top industry visionaries will share their experiences and best practices for driving manufacturer enterprise performance at ARC Advisory Group's Fourteenth Annual Forum, "Driving Enterprise Performance through Next Generation Manufacturing Concepts: Design, Operate, Maintain, and Synchronize". The forum is the only event of its kind that provides the opportunity to learn from the experiences of your peers as well as network with a unique blend of manufacturers, solution providers, and industry organizations. This unique event will bring together over 400 top industry executives to explore best practices for driving top performance from all plant and supply chain resources though coordination across four key performance drivers: Design, Operate, Maintain and Synchronize. The Forum will run from June 26-28, 2006 at the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel in Boston.

Key Theme: Design, Operate, Maintain, Synchronize

Product design, plant design, operational excellence, asset management and supply chain are all critical to Enterprise Performance. Manufacturers must beat the competition in each of these areas to survive in today's challenging markets. And, they must drive interoperability across areas to win. Andy Chatha, ARC's President and Founder, comments, "These are all key issues on the minds of manufacturing executives today. At the forum, top manufacturers will present the strategies, technologies, and best practices they are using to address these challenges as well as the real benefits they are seeing from their efforts."

Featured topics at the forum include:

-- Driving Performance thru Enterprise Interoperability

-- Driving Performance thru Plant Information Lifecycle Management 

-- Driving Performance thru Digital Manufacturing

-- Driving Performance thru Collaborative Asset Management

-- Driving Performance thru Supply Chain Synchronization 

Executive Speakers

ARC is currently in the process of identifying potential speakers for this forum. If your company has an initiative that fits into one of these sessions, please submit us a brief description and the name of a key high level executive who would be willing to share their experience with the forum attendees.

Executive Strategy Report on Improving Plant Performance through Design, Operate and Maintain Interoperability now Available

This strategy report discusses Plant Performance and describes in detail some of the issues and concepts addressed at the Forum. A new model incorporating Design, Operate, and Maintain (DOM) as the three factors of Plant Performance is described and critical interdependencies between these factors are examined. DOM Interoperability is identified as a vital component of Plant Performance Management and steps you can take to implement DOM Interoperability are outlined.

Live Demos at the Innovations Showcase

New, standards-based industry solutions for manufacturing will be showcased at the Innovations Showcase at the Forum including live demos of emerging applications and Interoperability solutions. This will provide executives an excellent opportunity to assess their potential.

For more information on the forum, or to get a copy of the related Executive Report: Improving Plant Performance through Design Operate Maintain Interoperability, please visit: www.arcweb.com/res/forumbos, call 781-471-1000, or email [e-mail].

Founded in 1986, ARC Advisory Group has grown to become the Thought Leader in Manufacturing and Supply Chain solutions. No matter how complex your business issues, our analysts have the expert industry knowledge and first-hand experience to help you find the best answer. We focus on simple yet critical goals: improving your return on assets, operational performance, total cost of ownership, project time-to-benefit, and shareholder value. Further information can be obtained from ARC, Three Allied Drive, Dedham, MA 02026, 781-471-1000, Fax [phone], E-mail [e-mail], Web www.arcweb.com.