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What? PLM Road Map™ 2007

 

When? September 19 & 20, 2007

 

Where? The Inn at St. John's, Plymouth, Michigan

 

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CPDA is pleased to announce that Detlef Bielohlawek, Global Director - CAD and Visualization, General Motors and Dr. Thomas Gielda, Director, Global Mechanical Structures and Systems, Whirlpool Corporation will join  Dr. Durward K. Sobek and Michael Kennedy with keynote presentations at its annual PLM Road Map conference, to be held at The Inn at St. John's, Plymouth, Michigan on September 19 and 20.

In his presentation, Globalization Challenges: Supporting the Transformation to Global Engineering with Global Information Technology, Detlef Bielohlawek will discuss how GM transformed Product Development from a group of regional engineering centers into one global development organization. To facilitate this transformation, IT initiated a world-wide effort structured to enable global virtual engineering. Detlef Bielohlawek will describe the path taken – from the communications and technical challenges experienced to the benefits that ensued. Learn more about the tools, synergies, opportunities, risks, and personal impacts that were encountered on the way.

 

In Driving Simulation-Based Design in the Home Appliance Industry, Dr. Thomas Gielda will show how simulation has become integral to the design process for the reduction of physical prototypes, the evaluation of design functional objectives, and the shaping of design decisions up front at Whirlpool Corporation. Dr. Gielda will share lessons learned in driving a major paradigm shift and will update us on progress achieved to-date following Whirlpool's recent implementation of MSC SimEnterprise™.

 
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About Detlef Bielohlawek, Global Director - CAD and Visualization, General Motors
 

Detlef Bielohlawek was appointed Global Director for CAD/Visualization Development and Deployment, Global Product Development in April 2007. In this role he supports virtual engineering in all of GM's engineering centers with world-class math and visualization capabilities.

 

Detlef works not only with GM's user communities but also with all core system providers in order to drive system functionality and product development processes to new global levels. He reports to Terry Kline, Process Information Officer (PIO), Global Product Development. Before his current assignment, Detlef led the negotiations for the new outsourcing CAD/Visualization global service contract.

 

In 1977 he joined Adam Opel AG, Russelsheim, Germany as an engineer in the Plant Layout department. In 1979 through 1980 he joined GM's fellowship program and graduated from General Motors Institute, Flint, Michigan. After returning to Germany he introduced CAD/CAM systems in Manufacturing Engineering. He was part of GM CAD/CAM council which prepared the ground for GM's single core CAD/PLM strategy. Before his global assignments, he led various IT projects in GM Europe, in the end as a Chief Engineer Math Based Systems in charge of Virtual Engineering systems and processes.

 

Detlef holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Applied Science in Wiesbaden, Germany.
 
About Dr. Thomas Gielda, Director, Global Mechanical Structures and Systems, Whirlpool Corporation
 

Dr. Thomas Gielda was named the director, Global Mechanical Structures and Systems, shortly after joining Whirlpool Corporation in February 2004. Prior to this assignment, he served as the director, Innovation and Technology, Simulation Based Design.

 

Gielda joined Whirlpool from Visteon Automotive Systems, a leading full service supplier that delivers consumer-driven technology solutions to automotive manufacturers. His position at Visteon was as a Distinguished Technical Fellow.

 

Before joining Visteon, Gielda was a senior scientist at the McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratory (MDRL). While at MDRL he developed interdisciplinary Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis codes. These codes were used extensively on the National Aerospace Plane and Single-Stage-to-Orbit (SSTO) Delta Clipper Rocket.

 

He holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering from North Carolina State University and bachelor and master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University.

 
About PLM Road Map™ 2007
 
PLM Road Map™ 2007 is a strategic conference focused on the critical tradeoffs that shape product development. Explore first hand the progress, opportunities, and roadblocks leading-edge end-users are confronting. Presentations will cover eBOM/mBOM synchronization from the U.S. and Japan to drive modularity, reuse, and product platform strategies; a scorecard and benchmark for simulation driven design; the challenge and potential for integrating mechanical, electrical/electronics and software; requirements management to optimize critical parameters; knowledge engineering; process standardization for continuous improvement, and more.