June 7 - 9, 2011
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
Bethesda, MD

Don't Miss: Prevention and Early Detection: Best Practices for Controlling and Monitoring Product Quality across Your Global Supply Chain

Global manufacturers wrestle daily with optimizing and leveraging the cost advantages of global supply networks while ensuring product quality to protect their products and patients. From small, single component suppliers to large OEMs, device makers needs to assure that products adhere to quality specifications.

This presenta­tion will teach firms how they can predict quality — and analyze incidents — from internal supply chains and external suppliers.

Attendees will learn:

• Characteristics of a closed-loop approach that enables proactive business decisions — resulting in higher product quality, growth and profitability
• How global medical device companies drive continu­ous improvement in their complex global manufactur­ing and outsourced processes and quality systems
• Industry benchmarks that show positive business results of embracing a closed-loop approach to product quality.

Speaker: Jay Antonellis, Senior Director, Life Science Practice, Camstar Systems

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Supply Chain Quality Networks: Creating Superheros Every Day!
June 14, 2011
1:00 pm ET

Executives, Supplier Quality and Component Engineers are increasingly challenged by global outsourcing and fragmented supply chains. As the depth and breadth of the supply chain increases, the complexity of maintaining control over quality escalates. Undetected quality issues are revealed through the ballooning cost of component defects, scrap, and inspection costs, which in turn drain margins and pose delivery and warranty costs to the final product. This session discusses a unique approach for managing critical component quality across your global supply chain.

You will see:

• The causes and effects of poor supplier quality.
• Dynamic sampling techniques that push inspection to the source and reduce incoming inspection.
• How to encourage suppliers to provide on-time accurate data.
• Three analytical techniques to give you a bird's eye view of your global component performance in seconds.
• Executive views of the supply chain.
• How a cloud-based solution makes deployment effortless to brand owners and suppliers
• Real-life case studies and ROI results.

Learn how knowledge and visibility lets you rescue your company from potential supply chain quality threats - making you a superhero every day.

Speakers: 
Nader Fathi, General Manager, Supply Chain Quality, Camstar
Al Alaverdi, Director, Supply Chain Quality, Camstar

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Over 35 Sessions Featured the World’s Largest Global Manufacturers and Leading Innovators; Superior Ratings Top 98%

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 25, 2011) – Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that its Global Customer Conference 2011 held May 9-12 at Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California was by all measure an outstanding success. The number of customer speakers increased 60% since the last Global Customer Conference, attracting their peers and analysts to the educational event and resulting in a 40% increase in attendance.

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“Overall product quality is the responsibility of the brand owner or OEM, who must have real-time visibility and control over suppliers and contract manufacturers,” said Jaideep Rao, medical device industry manager for Camstar Systems Inc., a provider of enterprise manufacturing software and quality solutions based in Charlotte, N.C. “This cannot be effectively achieved through time consuming onsite audits of your global supply network and redundant quality verification on receipt of materials. OEMs are asking for simple ways to drive supplier and contract manufacturer quality to prevent risky and costly rework, scrap, and other waste downstream. They want early visibility and real-time manufacturing process intelligence [built] into supplier and contract manufacturer processes with the ability to effectively collaborate with the suppliers to correct and prevent problems from occurring.”

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