In a recent message, I indicated that NIST's ATP program was looking at funding an effort in the Virtual Enterprise. Nominally, Focused Programs are on the order of $100M. Here is an announcement of a workshop. Such workshops are the primary mechanism (together with white papers) that ATP uses to judge the appropriateness, merit and industry strength a program has.
Best, Ted
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Virtual Enterprise Working Group Meeting Hilton Hotel, San Jose, CA January 18, 1995
sponsored by the Agility Forum, the Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing International (CAM-I), the National Center for the Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS), and Smart Valley, Inc., in support of the NIST Advanced Technology Program.
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For several months, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP) has been working with industry to define a focused program which, if funded, would provide cost-share funding to industry to overcome technical barriers associated with the Virtual Enterprise paradigm.
A workshop met in March 1994, at NCMS that resulted in one working paper. Others have developed additional working papers. There is, however, no well-defined, consensus set of technical thrusts around which an ATP might be constructed.
The Virtual Enterprise Working Group will meet on January 18, 1995, at the San Jose Hilton Hotel and Towers, 300 Almaden Blvd., San Jose, CA., to develop a consensus on a recommended set of technical thrusts for an ATP focused program on virtual enterprise (VE). The tentative agenda is:
8:00 - 8:30: Registration/Continental Breakfast 8:30 - 9:00: Objectives of the Working Group Meeting 9:00 - 9:30: Working Paper from the March Workshop 9:30 - 10:00: Agile Virtual Enterprise Reference Base 10:00 - 10:30: A Silicon Valley Perspective on VE 10:30 - 10:50: Break 10:50 - 12:15: Identifying Key Technology Thrusts for VE (breakout sessions)
- Infrastructure - Models for Integration - Applications - Data Structures, Models, Standards - The Human Interface
12:15 - 1:15: Lunch (provided) 1:15 - 2:15: General Discussion of Technology Thrusts 2:15 - 2:45: Brief Survey of Related Federal Programs 2:45 - 3:15: Break 3:15 - 4:15: Prioritization of Key Technology Thrusts for a VE ATP focused program (breakout sessions) 4:15 - 5:00: General Discussion of Priorities 5:00 - 5:30: Summarization, Establishment of Consensus, and Closure
Attendees will be asked to volunteer to write or contribute to working papers that would explore each of the recommended technology thrusts in the full context of the ATP (good technical ideas, business case, need for ATP funding). These would contribute to a more widely publicized ATP Workshop that would be held in conjunction with the Agility Conference the first full week in March.
The number of participants in the Working Group Meeting will be limited. To register, call Mary Ann Cockrell at 817/860-1654 (FAX: 817/275-6450; e-mail: mac@metronet.com). Registration fee will be $50.00, payable to 'CAM-I', and inclusive of lunch.
For further information about the Working Group Meeting, contact Jim Jordan (408/253-0134; e-mail: jjordan@cup. portal.com). For further information about the proposed NIST ATP focused program, contact Barbara Goldstein (301/975-2304; e-mail: barbara@eeel.nist.gov).
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