Broaden expertise; apply proven technologies more quickly: Jerry Yen, of General Motors Powertrain and OMAC Users Group, addresses PLC, PC-based, and wireless controls; the Web; legacy integration; business of manufacturing; and interoperability via standards.(GM Powertrain)

Control Engineering, September, 2004 by Hoske, Mark T.

Jerry Yen received his M.S. Physics in 1976 and M.S.E.E. in 1980 from Ohio State University. He later received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He worked for Westinghouse Electric Co. for three years before joining General Motors Corp. in 1983.

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After joining GM, Yen designed and implemented image processing hardware and systems for manufacturing applications, worked with various GM divisions intechnology development and automation system implementations, and led the development and implementation of machine intelligence technologies, including vision systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic, and sensing systems. Yen worked at the GM Technical Center until April 1996, when he...

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