Dean Hu
2026 Speaker

Dean Hu

Virtual Execution Engineer

General Motors

About

Dean Hu is a Virtual Manufacturing Execution Engineer at General Motors within the Global Propulsion Systems Manufacturing Engineering department. Starting his career at GM, Dean was part of the TRACK rotational program where he gained experience throughout GM’s manufacturing life cycle, from laboratory design to plant engineering. Dean lead the creation of the GPS ME Virtual Reality Lab where Immersive technology is leveraged to model and evaluate product, process, and equipment, seeking to identify manufacturing issues before physical prototyping and fabrication begins. The GPS ME Virtual reality lab has seen utilization for all of GM’s newest powertrain powertrain programs including electric drive units, batteries, transmissions, and engines.

2026 Sessions

Oct 1412:00 PM12:25 PM
Blue BreakoutCase Study

Case Study - Using XR Tech to Build the Cars of Tomorrow (General Motors)

Atrium Ballroom B

Our presentation will discuss how we at General Motors Manufacturing Engineering leverage Immersive and XR technology to develop products faster, more efficiently, with less cost, and deliver safer production equipment to our manufacturing plants. We will discuss how XR technology has been injected into the manufacturing development pipeline and what sort of benefits that has yielded.