Action Engineering is hosting a series of free virtual events for the MBE community in 2020. These sessions leading up to 3D CIC 2021 feature industry experts, vendor interviews, and group discussions.
- August 26: Solving The People Piece: Social Science Tools For Successful MBE Adoption – Rhiannon Gallagher, Action Engineering
- September 9: Title TBA – Philip Jennings, Newport News Shipbuilding
- September 23: Title TBA – Daniel Madureira, DMB Reflex & Annalise Suzuki, Elysium
Sessions will be streamed live every other Wednesday, alternating start times of 9:00 am & 11:00 am MT. If you can’t join us for a live event, sessions will be broadcast the following day at 1:00 pm MT.
Recordings are available in the 3D CIC app for registered 3D CIC attendees.
August 26 ᛫ 11:00 am MT ᛫ Zoom
Solving The People Piece: Social Science Tools For Successful MBE Adoption
Rhiannon Gallagher, Action Engineering
The technical tools are often the easy part. Join our social scientist Rhiannon Gallagher as she introduces you to the social science tools behind successful MBE adoption. She will take a group of Action Engineering Personas through some of the ways we can make this an organizational change, not just an engineering one.
Live audience Q&A will follow the presentation.
Meet the personas of 3D CIC to learn what personas are and why they’re so important.
Rhiannon Gallagher
Chief Social Scientist
Action Engineering
Can’t make it to the live event? Watch the broadcast on August 27 at 1:00 pm MT, or register for 3D CIC 2021 to access the recording.
September 9 ᛫ 9:00 am MT ᛫ Zoom
An Analysis of Digital Readiness
Philip Jennings, Newport News Shipbuilding
Learn how Newport News Shipbuilding is leveraging existing digital readiness models to answer these strategic questions:
- How do we gain alignment across the organization?
- Are we focusing on the right projects and programs to shake-out success?
- Are we spending the budget on the right things?
- How do we turn a digital readiness model into actionable roadmaps, next steps, and projects which provide measurable results?
Philip Jennings will share a summary of the HII-NNS plans to meet these digital readiness models.
Live audience Q&A will follow the presentation.
Philip Jennings
Engineering Innovation Cell Manager
Newport News Shipbuilding
Can’t make it to the live event? Watch the broadcast on September 10 at 1:00 pm MT, or register for 3D CIC 2021 to access the recording.
September 23 ᛫ 11:00 am MT ᛫ Zoom
Topic TBA
Daniel Madureira, DBM Reflex
Annalise Suzuki, Elysium
More details will be announced shortly.
Daniel Madureira
CATIA V5 Class-A Surface Specialist / Application Engineer
DBM Reflex
Annalise Suzuki
VP of Technology & Engagement
Elysium
Can’t make it to the live event? Watch the broadcast on September 24 at 1:00 pm MT, or register for 3D CIC 2021 to access the recording.
Additional virtual sessions will be announced shortly. Stay tuned!
Previous Events
Recordings are available on-demand for 3D CIC 2021 attendees in the 3D CIC event app.
July 15 ᛫ 9:00 am MT ᛫ Zoom
Why Your MBE Transformation Should Be Agile
Action Engineering
Rhiannon Gallagher, Chief Social Scientist of Action Engineering, will host a roundtable discussion of how & why the Action Engineering team approaches model-based transformations with an Agile mindset.
Participants include Emily Cosgrove, Scrum Master; Pamela Gillaspie, Social Architect; and Kate Hubbard, CMO.
Rhiannon Gallagher
Chief Social Scientist
Action Engineering
Pamela Gillaspie
Social Architect
Action Engineering
Emily Cosgrove
Scrum Master
Action Engineering
Kate Hubbard
CMO
Action Engineering
July 29 ᛫ 11:00 am MT ᛫ Zoom
Digital Transformation in an Adverse Environment
Jerry Richhart, Allison Transmission
Join us to see what Allison Transmission is doing to develop a Digital Transformation Roadmap and build capability at pace.
“Taking the Right Steps at the Right Time” is easier said than done. Learn how Allison Transmission has divided their massive journey into smaller pieces, implemented their roadmap in stages, and structured their small team to maximize the power of their people.
Jerry Richhart has successfully implemented Model-Based Definition on an aerospace engine program with high leadership support for MBD/MBE. He is now driving digital transformation efforts at Allison Transmission, a leading manufacturer of commercial-duty automatic transmissions and hybrid propulsion solutions.
Jerry Richhart
Digital Transformation Engineer
Allison Transmission
August 12 ᛫ 9:00 am MT ᛫ Zoom
A Former Insider’s Guide to Model-Based Technical Data in the DOD
Ben Kassel, LMI
Longtime 3D CIC member Ben Kassel will take us on a journey into MBD and the DoD. Learn more about government technical data needs, the purpose and history of the DoD Engineering Data and Manufacturing Working Group, what the future holds for government technical data, and a little bit about intellectual property and rights in technical data.
Ben says, “I can no longer count the number of years I have been involved in the acquisition of model-based technical data. All I can say is it has been tough. It is as if we are trying to purchase something that the program offices do not want to buy, from suppliers that do not want to sell. Compound this with CAD vendors that really do not have much of an incentive to develop translators that in effect provide a gateway to their competition.”
But times are changing. 3D Model-based technical data is no longer a ‘nice-to-have,’ it is a ‘need to have.’ This presentation will be a look into the needs for a harmonized policy at the highest DoD executive level, buy-in at the user level to follow specific modeling guidelines, and the discipline by mid-level managers to enforce the policies.
Ben Kassel
Senior Consultant, Mechanical Engineering
LMI
