ANN ARBOR, MI--Maik Schminke was recently named Manager of Controls Engineering & Programming at the Ann Arbor facility of GMTA.  According to GMTA President Walter Friedrich, “This appointment fills our need to provide and support customers with machine tool controls, SPS, PLC and CNC programming.”   Schminke has worked for the past 12 years at the German partner to GMTA, Diskus, part of the large DVS Group in Germany.  Prior to Diskus, he worked at Pittler, another GMTA partner company in Germany and also a DVS Group company.   Schminke completed his apprenticeship program, while at Pittler.