The Society of Manufacturing Engineers recently announced five keynote speakers for its upcoming fuel cell conference.

The conference, which will focus on emerging fuel cell technology and its impact on manufacturing, will feature the following speakers:

• Ulf Bossel, PhD, director of the European Fuel Cell Forum
• Spencer Abraham and David Garman of the federal Department of Energy
• Hiroyuki Watanabe, chief quality control officer of Toyota Motor Corp.
• General Paul J. Kern, U.S. Army Material Command
• Steven Taub, director of Cambridge Energy Research Associates’ Emerging Generation Technologies

The conference is designed to help manufacturers become future suppliers to the growing advanced energy technologies industry, and to teach them to implement lean energy principles and reduces costs. In addition to the speakers, the SME conference will feature more than 50 other presentations with topics including: reducing the cost of advanced energy technology, high tolerance materials, scalability of components, designing fuel cells for manufacturability, supplier requirements and lean energy management.

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