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VISTAGY Webcast Series Presents: How to Improve Communication between OEMs & the Supply Chain to Accelerate Seat Design



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Thursday, June 9, 2011
8:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 15:00 UTC/GMT

Join Jim Wehrle from WEHRL-WIND ENTERPRISES and Marc Attar from VISTAGY for an informative Webcast entitled: How to Improve Communication between OEMs & the Supply Chain to Accelerate Seat Design.  This Webcast will discuss how improving communication between OEMs and their suppliers lead to a more efficient seat design process.

Seat design engineers face the unique challenge of creating complex seat definitions.  The creation and use of engineering data is extremely inefficient and engineers cannot easily obtain all the data they need to make decisions, which slow the seat bidding and engineering process.  As a result, they make decisions with multi-million dollar impact and don’t even know it. 

OEM, Tier 1, and supplier communications become more efficient when more complete seat product definitions are utilized.  By using master models that encompass both geometric and non-geometric data, the seat bidding and engineering process is accelerated so you will get your product to the market more rapidly. 

You will learn:

  • How developing a seamless flow of information from bidding to engineering processes will avoid the duplication of effort and get your product to market faster
  • How to efficiently create and access the engineering data you need, when you need it, in a form that easily flows to everyone in your organization who needs it

Overcome your toughest product development challenges and deliver products that meet specifications on-time and on-budget. 

Reserve your Webcast seat now!
 

Who Should Attend:

  • Process Improvement Managers
  • Seating System OEMs and Suppliers
  • Program Directors
  • Manufacturing Engineers
  • Design Engineers
  • Analysts

Featured Speakers:

Jim Wehrle
Owner
WEHRL-WIND ENTERPRISES

Mr. James Wehrle is an Automotive Engineering Specialist and Owner of WEHRL-WIND ENTERPRISES, an engineering consulting company he started after retiring from General Motors Corporation.  Jim worked for General Motors for 38 years and during this time he held several engineering and management positions and achieved numerous accomplishments.  Jim became one of the first members of the 1993 Buick Seat Comfort Team, which developed the Seat Ride Process that became a Corporate Common Process in 1997.  Jim also led the development of ERL which provides the capability to meet the needs of rapid seat development for today’s Vehicle Development Process.  Jim holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute as well as a Master of Science of Engineering in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Marc Attar
Automotive Technical Consultant
VISTAGY, Inc.

Mr. Marc Attar is a Technical Consultant at VISTAGY.  Marc has been with VISTAGY for over 6 years and is the lead consultant for the automotive industry. He has worked with the leading automotive manufacturers and suppliers to develop VISTAGY’s software.  Marc holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Master of Software Engineering from Brandeis University.