News from GLACOe

GLACOe elected a new president and vice-president in September. GLACOe is pleased to welcome Jeff Donegan (INCAT) as the new President and Tim Reske (BOSCH) as the new Vice President. In addition, Barbara Sergus (DaimlerChrysler) has done an excellent job as GLACOe Secretary and will continue as the organization's secretary. All of these outstanding individuals are highly qualified to lead the GLACOe organization. Please give them your full support as they continue to grow the organization and deliver high quality automotive industry content. It has been a pleasure serving as your president and I thank you for your support.

For meeting minutes and presentation slides from prior GLACOe meetings, visit the Web site at http://www.glacoe.org/meetings.html. These meetings are conducted at no-charge to attendees. The Great Lakes CATIA Operators Exchange is an organization that promotes the exchange of technical information between users of Dassault Systèmes PLM solutions.

Mike Fecek, GLACOe President
mf@virtualgrp.com

The following was the agenda for the previous meeting in September:

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