Innovative Production Machines and Systems Conference

I'll try to explain some of the reasoning behind this year presentation format and why video of all things.

Last year we went ambitiousy with html based presentations derived from S5. This has caused a lot of confusion for the authors. To be fair, we are not in the business of changing people's habits. So for this year we decided to simplify the procedure. You can use your favourite tool to prepare a presentation. Then capture your presentation delivery off the screen. In my opinion this is a minor headache and complication, while maintaining the advantage of presenting the content for all (ok, most) platforms.

We are working hard on seeding the papers and their abstracts in the conference forums (sessions). Unfortunately this involves quite a bit of manual intervention. When those are ready, you will be able to upload your video presentations.

This short tutorial assumes that you have Windows Media Encoder installed. This software can be downloaded for free from Microsoft (if you have a genuine copy of Windows). This is not the only available software. In fact, you can use any software, which can export to a movie/video file.

The Welsh Assembly Government has confirmed its support for IPROMS 2006.

We are most grateful for the Government's continuing sponsorship.

In particular, we wish to acknowledge the help given to our Manufacturing Engineering Centre by the Welsh Development Agency (now part of the Government) with the preparation of our successful bid to host the I*PROMS Network of Excellence, the organisation behind this IPROMS conference series.

Just as he was thinking he might have acquired immunity against blogging, we have decided to feature our quietly effective CCT member @ in today's blog.

Unlike the Av brothers, @ is more biased towards mechanical engineering, manufacturing and management. He is our Fit Manufacturing guru and MAS Master.

Like the Terrific Twins, he is a traveller, each day clocking up many miles along the M4 between work and home. He is also a polyglot, knowing Welsh, English and German, as well as Six-Sigma Speak.

Unlike most of our rather hedonistic CCT, @ has an incredible capacity for hard work.

He is yet to be converted to blogging, being still cyber-shy. However, as the author/co-author of several IPROMS 2006 papers, @ will soon have to overcome any shyness and go online. Watch this space!