Ammon Wright, BSME, MSEE is a member of INCOSE, IEEE and Tau Beta Pi and is the Global Development Manager of Model-Based Systems Engineering for Controls Development at Siemens Digital Industries. His professional career spans more than 30 years of leadership in product development, systems engineering, requirements management, hardware and software design, architecture development, integration and test. Throughout his technical career, he has applied the use of the model-based design in the development of control software algorithms for safety-critical systems in the automotive, medical, aerospace and defense industries.

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of Siemens Digital Factory Division, is a leading global provider of software, systems and services in the areas of managing the product lifecycle (PLM, Product Lifecycle Management) and management of industrial operations (MOM, Manufacturing Operations Management), with over 15 million licenses sold and 140 000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano (Texas), Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with clients to offer industrial software solutions that help companies worldwide to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage by realizing their important innovations.