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Autonomy promises better mobility and safety for more people at lower costs. But the implications for the auto- mobile industry could be profound. Burns leads attendees through what that journey may look like and how to best prepare.
• Dan Sharkey, partner with Brooks Wilkins Sharkey & Turco PLLC, exam- ines legal and regulatory developments as well as their impacts on automotive suppliers.
• Plante Moran’s Lou Longo, inter- national consulting leader, Alejandro Rodriguez, country manager, and Daron Gifford, automotive leader, lead an inter- active panel, It’s a Chain Reaction: NAFTA and Your Business. The panel discussion explores the status of NAFTA negotiations and their possible impacts on the automotive supply chain.
• In Automotive Lightweighting: The Past, Present and Future, Abey Abra- ham, managing director at Ducker Worldwide, explores the increased use of lightweighting materials driving
advancements in hot forming steel, warm forming aluminum and composite molding, along with new joining methods using lasers, fasteners and adhesives.
• Metal-Additive Man-
ufacturing for Automo-
tive, a special session
sponsored by Metal-
Forming’s sister publica-
tion, 3D Metal Printing,
features presentations
by two industry experts.
Practical Guidance from
Design to Production, by
Dan Skulan, national
sales manager for Ren-
ishaw, shares a systematic approach to automotive design, prototyping and production that uses a comprehensive suite of technologies. Challenges and Opportunities from the E.U. to the U.S., by Jon Walker, automotive specialist with EOS, discusses how additive man-
Production tallies, forecasts and supply-chain trends all will be on the agenda at PMA’s Automotive Parts Suppliers Conference, April 25-26 in Detroit, MI.
ufacturing can play a role in future mobility.
The event also features an APSC- anniversary networking reception and dinner at the Detroit Athletic Club. For more details and to register, visit www.pma.org/apsc. MF
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