10 - The Michigan Daily Summer Weekly -Wednesday,August 5, 1992
Seminar emphasizes educating
students on manufacturing need .
by Adam Hundley
Daily Staff Reporter
More than athousand industry ex-
ecutives are meeting this week at the
University's Management Briefing
Seminarstodiscuss the future ofmanu-
facturing and the University's role in
automotive and industrial sectors.
At the Traverse City conference,
speakers are addressing strengths and
weaknesses in all industries, but they
are focusing on manufacturing and qual-
ity assurance in the automotive indus-
try.
"When you talk manufacturing in
Michigan, you have to talk automo-
biles," said Downs Herold, research
program manager of the University's
Engineering Industrial Development
Division.
DuringMonday'sseminars,"World
Class Manufacturing" and "Quality
Assurance," speakers emphasized the
need to educate students about the im-
portance of manufacturing and recruit
top students from the University.
"IfMichigan isnotaleaderinmanu-
facturing, we're really in trouble,"
Herold said. "When we're not attract-
ing the best and brightest from the Uni-
versity into the auto industry, it's in-
dicative that changes have to be made."
Donald Petersen, former chair and
CEO of Ford Motor Co., and Richard
Dauch, formerexecutive vicepresident
for world-wide manufacturing at
Chrysler, attributed the problem to the
dirty, "assembly-line" image of manu-
facturing and the comparatively attrac-
tive images of design engineering and
other positions.
Petersen and Dauch claimed that
manufacturing involves team-oriented
problem solving and all the challenges
andbenefitsofotherindustrypositions.
At the quality assurance seminar,
MIT Prof. James Womack and other
speakersemphasized theneed for"lean
production" and continuous improve-
ment techniques to strengthen the auto-
motive industry. Womack praised
corporations like Chrysler for put-
tingtogetherproductivedesignteams
and responding to the recession, but
he said work still needs to be done.
Chrysler Chair Lee Iacocca,
President and CEO of Mazda Corp.
Yoshihiro Wada, and other top ex-
ecutives will lead today's through
Friday's automotive briefing semi-
nar, "Working together."
"Speakers will focus on the fu-
ture of the global industry and the
establishment of better working re-
lationships between all who are part
of the automotive industry," said
David Cole, chair of the seminar and
director of the University's Office
for the Study of Automotive Trans-
portation.
The seminars are sponsored by
the University'slIndustrialDevelop-
ment Division of the College of En-
gineering and the Office for the Study
of Automotive Transportation.
Fox to speak at D.C. student assembly
by Purvi Shah
Daily News Editor geographical region than their home be forced to deal with the repercus-
Michigan Student Assembly Presi- base of Washington D.C. sions of an exorbitant deficit.
dentEdeFoxwilltraveltoWashington, "They'relookingtogetawiderange SeveralotherMSAmembersare
D.C. today in order to deliver a two- of support from students across alsoattending the United States Stu-
minute speech for a group demanding America,"Fox said."I'llbetherespeak- dent Association Conference in
politicians be accountable to younger ing on behalf of 18 to 21-year-olds in Washington, D.C. However, the
Americans. the Midwest." University contingent will not be
The activist group, LEAD ... or Student goveraments from such allowed to vote since it has not ful-
Leave, was begun by two members of schools as Penn State, the University of filled the minimum distribution of
the twentysomething generation-Rob Virginia, University of Wisconsin, and delegates.
Nelson and Jon Cowan as a non-parti- Vanderbilt have already voiced their A certain number of women and
san, non-profit effort to corral 18 to 30- support for the organization. Fox plans people of color must be part of each
year-olds to believe "our generation to broach the possibility of MSA sup- delegation.
can have real power in politics." port at a later meeting. "At the last minute one of the
Former Presidential candidate and LEAD ... orLeave demands thatall women that we were going to send
former Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Md.) and candidates for federally elected office was unable to go because her thesis
Sen.Warren Rudman(R-N.H.)-who "takeapledge promisingto seekreelec- is due Friday," Fox said.
are alsosponsorsof the organization- tion only if the FY 1996 federal deficit Fox added she might register for
will be the featured speakers. is 50% lower than that of FY 1992." the conference while in the city so
Fox said she was selected to speak The group is asking that future thattheUniversity delegatesnotonly
at the news conference because the Americanleadersmakethispledgesince be able to participate, but would also
group wanteda woman froma different it is the younger generation which will have a vote.
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The original piano for the film "Casablanca" is on display in the Fox
Theatre lobby in Detroit to commemorate the film's 50th anniversary. In
1988 this piano was sold to a California doctor for $154,000 - the
second-highest sum ever paid for a piece of movie memorabilia to date.
Turner Entertainment Co. has restored the master print to its black and
white splendor. "Casablanca" comes to the Michigan Theater Friday.
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