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Bay Named Associate Director for the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG)

12 May 1997

Bay Named Associate Director for the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG)

    SOUTHFIELD, Mich., May 12 -- The Automotive Industry Action
Group (AIAG) board of directors today announced that Frank J. Bay has joined
AIAG as an associate director on loan from Deere & Company.  At AIAG, he
succeeds Jerry Widmer, who had been on loan from Eaton Corporation since 1995
and recently retired.
    With more than 35 years computer-engineering experience, Bay will manage
AIAG's AutoSTEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data) pilot -- a
project aimed at standardizing CAD/CAM data exchange to reduce the number of
redundant CAD/CAM systems throughout the supply chain.
    Most recently, Bay served as a systems research associate with Moline,
Ill.-based Deere & Company, where he was responsible for special projects,
including estimating product cost from  CAD data.  From 1989 until 1994, he
was the manager of part modeling systems, where he led a team that was
responsible for standardizing Deere & Company on a single CAD system.
    Earlier, he spent 10 years as European manager of engineering systems at
Deere & Company's Mannheim, Germany facility.  Bay joined Deere & Company in
1961 and served in a variety of computing and engineering positions.
    Bay earned a bachelor of science degree in physics and a master's degree
in computer science from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb.
    Founded in 1982, AIAG is a not-for-profit trade association of more than
1,300 automotive and truck manufacturers and their suppliers. Originally
recognized for its efforts to standardize electronic data interchange (EDI)
and bar code standards to assist Tier-one suppliers, AIAG's mission has been
expanded to cover all levels of the automotive supply chain, as well as to
include numerous programs and initiatives aimed at improving its members'
productivity and quality.
    More information about AIAG and the annual AUTO-TECH Conference and
Exposition being held August 25-28, 1997 in Detroit can be found on the World
 Wide Web at http://www.aiag.org.

SOURCE  Automotive Industry Action Group