Featured Guests
Gamal Lashin
Manager Strategy & Performance, Vaillant Group
Gamal Lashin is currently Strategy & Performance Manager at the Vaillant Group, Germany. He has spent more than 25 years evaluating, implementing and operating different applications for virtual product development such 3D CAD, PDM and Simulation (FEM, CFD, acoustic etc.) leading international teams at AEG Westinghouse, SIEMENS DUEWAG and Vaillant Group. He also was responsible for the definition and operation of release and engineering change management process, definition and management of standard components, creation of design rules and guidelines and process to control product master data quality. In 2014/2015 he was key responsible for the creation of the long-term PLM concept and roadmap at the Vaillant Group. During his Ph.D research between 1988 -1992 he was evaluating the potentials of 3D CAD technology for the offline programming of assembly operations using robots.
Currently, he defines the division functional strategy and identifies necessary action fields and success metrics to ensure high business performance.
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