Announcement
RIETI, together with the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) at MIT and Hosei University, will be holding an international symposium on International Automobile Industry Research on September 12, 2003. IMVP is well known as a 20-year-old international research network which published the best seller, "The Machine that Changed the World," in 1990. This conference offers a general audience the opportunity to become acquainted with IMVP's new research initiatives and their results over the past few years.
Information
- Date: September 12, 2003 10:00-17:30
- Venue: Hosei University (Sky Hall, Boissonade Tower 26F)
- Language: Japanese / English (with simultaneous interpretation)
- Host: RIETI, Hosei University, MIT IMVP (International Motor Vehicle Program)
- Contact: RIETI Taeko Matsukura
Tel: 03-3501-8398 Fax: 03-3501-8416
* The symposium will be videotaped and broadcast via the Internet in the near future. Associated documents will also be available on the RIETI website.
Agenda
10:00-10:15 Welcoming Remarks
| - KIYONARI Tadao (President, Hosei University) | |
| - John Paul MACDUFFIE (IMVP Co-Director / Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania) | |
| - AOKI Masahiko (RIETI President & Chief Research Officer / Professor, Stanford University) |
10:15-10:30 IMVP Overview
| - John Paul MACDUFFIE (IMVP Co-Director / Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania) |
10:30-11:30 Session 1: Managing Extended Enterprise (I)
| "The Second Century - Moving Beyond Lean Factories" | |
| - Frits PIL (Assistant Professor and Research Scientist, University of Pittsburgh) | |
| - Matthias HOLWEG (IMVP Sloan Industry Center Research Fellow) | |
11:30-11:45 COFFEE BREAK
11:45-13:00 Session 2: Managing Extended Enterprise (II)
| "Supplier Parks: Shared Proximity and Dispersed Ownership" | |
| - SAKO Mari (RIETI Visiting Fellow / Professor, University of Oxford) | |
| "Structural Changes of Japanese Supplier System" | |
| - TAKEISHI Akira (Professor, Hitotsubashi University) | |
| "New Strategies of the Japanese Automobile Industry: New Trends in Thailand and China" | |
| - SHIMOKAWA Koichi (Emeritus Professor, Hosei University / Professor, Tokaigakuen University) | |
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:00 Session 3: eAutomotive
| "Opportunities When Value Networks Collide: Telematics at the Intersection of Automotive and Telecommunications" | |
| - Charles FINE (Chrysler Leaders for Manufacturing Professor, MIT) | |
| "The Influence of 3D-CAD on Product Development Process Performance" | |
| - NOBEOKA Kentaro (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Kobe University) | |
15:00-16:00 Session 4: Visions of a Sustainable Future
| "Transition to a Hydrogen Future - Scenarios for the U.S." | |
| - Jamie WINEBRAKE (Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology) | |
| "Recent Development of Fuel Cell Vehicles and Related Issues in Japan" | |
| - DAISHO Yasuhiro (Professor, Waseda University) | |
16:00-16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15-17:25 Panel Discussion: Near-to-Mid-Term Predictions for the Global Automotive Industry
| Discussants: | |
| Yannick LUNG Co-Director, GERPISA, France) | |
| Ulrich JURGENS (Professor, Social Science Research Center, Germany) | |
| Charles FINE (Chrysler Leaders for Manufacturing Professor, MIT) | |
| FUJIMOTO Takahiro (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, The University of Tokyo) | |
| ITO Sadanori (Deputy Director of Automobile Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI) | |
| Moderator: | |
| John Paul MACDUFFIE (IMVP Co-Director / Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania) | |
17:25-17:30 Vote of thanks and valedictory speech
| - John Paul MACDUFFIE (IMVP Co-Director / Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania) | |
| - SHIMOKAWA Koichi (Emeritus Professor, Hosei University / Professor, Tokaigakuen University) | |
| - FUJIMOTO Takahiro (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, The University of Tokyo) |
17:45-19:00 Reception
* The agenda is subject to change.
