Organisation

"Advancing globalisation and a greater proliferation of products are increasing the demands on the data management systems and calling for integrated process environments and system landscapes.

Our staff have both the technical expertise and the social skills to provide customer support with product data and product information management at the interfaces between Development, Production, Marketing and Sales & After Sales".

Career history
Hans-Wilhelm Uphues joined the Group in 1987, taking on various managerial roles in MB Car, MB Truck and the development of smart. Between 2000 and 2005 he was responsible for EDM/PDM methods and product documentation at smart gmbh.
He has been Director at Daimler Protics GmbH since 07/2005.
Given his background in design engineering and data management operations within MCG (smart gmbh), Hans-Wilhelm Uphues has a broad knowledge of process and method optimisation in the full complement of tasks in EDM, PDM and product documentation.

"Product documentation data and release process data form the basis of information for the entire value-added chain from product development, production planning and production right through to sales and after-sales.

Our aim is to provide optimum support for this process both in terms of operational data management and in terms of developing new processes, methods and systems."

Career history
Winfried Rembold joined the Group in 1986 and worked for the QM in the Production division. From 1990 he was in charge of documentation processes, methods and systems in the car development division and took on several different team and project management roles for EDM/PDM processes and systems.
He had been authorised signatory and Head of PDM Division at Daimler Protics GmbH since 05/2003.

"It costs five times as much to gain a new customer than to retain an existing customer. Good solutions for system and data management in sales, after-sales and CRM therefore offer high potential for added value and particularly so in times of recession.

Our aim is to offer our customers a sustainable benefit in their sales, after-sales and CRM solution by also having the ability to offer support in live operation after designing the process and system."

Career history
Wolfgang Schweikert joined Daimer Protics GmbH in January 2005. He had previously been Assistant Director and Head of Multichannel Portal Operations & Technology at StarMobility GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DCAG.
Drawing on many years of project experience and sales in telecommunications and portal systems, he and his experienced team in Sales Systems & Data Management - a division he himself developed - are well equipped to offer optimised solutions for sales, after-sales and CRM.

"Digital data form the basis for our products at all stages of the product life cycle. Having the right view of these data for the task at hand and user-friendly systems for processing these data often determine the quality of the work.

We aim to provide cutting-edge concepts, solutions and services for the intuitive and integrated representation and use of data and processes at all phases of the product and production processes."

Career history
Klaus Grebner joined the Group in 1984 and started by working on image analysis systems for industrial applications in conjunction with artificial intelligence problems. In 1992 he introduced the subject of virtual reality at the Daimler Research Centre in Ulm. In 1996 he was asked by the Group to work with a small team to build up the Virtual Reality Competence Center (VRCC) in Ulm. Until the time he joined Daimler Protics GmbH in 2008 he was heading up Daimler AG's Group Research and Advanced Engineering division which was a spin-off from the VRCC.