The executive board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has appointed Prof Dr Holger Kapels as managing director of the institute. In this position, he succeeds Prof Dr Axel Müller-Groeling, who is moving to the executive board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Munich.
Doris Höpfl takes over the board department Human Resources and Legal Affairs in the Harting Technology Group
Thorsten Frauenpreiss promoted to VP global sales and service and Markus Ruetering hired for VP sales and service EMEIA position, both for the photonics solutions division of MKS.
Friedrich Richter is the new managing director of Proleit. He succeeds the previous CEO and Proleit co-founder Wolfgang Ebster, who retired at the end of August.
Captron is making a change in international management: Sean Walters will be responsible for Captron North America LP as General Manager North America from August 2022.
The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) today announced that Oliver Scheel has joined the EMVA team as Business Development Manager, effective September 1st.
Edmund Optics has appointed Samuel Sadoulet as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Sadoulet will succeed Robert Edmund and assume his responsibilities with immediate effect.
She succeeds Robert Edmund who is retiring. She will also continue to serve as chief sales and marketing officer for Edmund Optics.
Hema Electronic has brought Torsten Schairer into its team. His focus will be on expanding and shaping all sales activities.
In the newly created position of senior vice president of corporate development at Edmund Optics, James Fisher will lead business development strategies, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic investment partnerships and activities. The lens manufacturer is thus strengthening its focus on global growth and expansion.
The camera manufacturer Adimec celebrated its 30th anniversary in July. At the same time as this anniversary, Jochem Herrman, co-founder and technical director of Adimec, is retiring.
Markus Mettler, Technical Operations Manager at EBM-Papst, was honoured for his Energy Scout project in Berlin. Energy scouts are trainees who, in addition to their apprenticeship, work to optimise energy consumption and efficiency in companies.
Matthias Lapp (39), grandson of the company's founder Ursula Ida Lapp, will take over as CEO of Lapp Holding from 1 October 2022. His uncle Andreas Lapp (66), Chairman of the Executive Board, and his father Siegbert E. Lapp (69), Chairman of the Supervisory Board, will retire from the operational business of the Lapp Group on 30 September 2022.
Previous commercial manager Mark Naples has almost two decades of experience working across the optics, sensing, and imaging industries.
To build the world’s most powerful quantum photonics processors and scalable, plug-and-play quantum computing solutions, Quix Quantum introduces Dr Ing Stefan Hengesbach as newly appointed chief executive officer.
Marek Domanski has been Operations Director at Buehler ITW Test & Measurement since the beginning of the year. From the company's headquarters in Lake Bluff/Il, USA, he coordinates and manages the production and sourcing of suppliers of all the company's systems for materialography and hardness testing.
Alio Industries has a sales and marketing director in Peter Lehner. He is to increase the market share in the industry.
The northern German camera manufacturer Automation Technology has promoted Nina Claaßen to Head of Marketing. This is a step on the way to expanding the company's internal and external communication channels.
The group’s board of directors met yesterday and paid homage to chairman Leonardo Del Vecchio who passed away peacefully Monday morning. They said he will forever be remembered for his values, robust leadership, passion, exceptional character as well as his dedication toward the company and its employees.
After three years of cooperation, KEB Automation has acquired a majority stake in Brusatori Electric Motors. The takeover brought a change in the company management.
The year 2022 is a special year for the family company Mayr Antriebstechnik: The managing partner Ferdinand Mayr and great-great-grandson of the company founder takes over the position of CEO from Günther Klingler.
Michael Cmok has been with the company from the beginning. His expertise and organizational skills have contributed to the current success of the company.
Peter Sieber has been appointed Vice President Strategic Marketing for the Hima Group. In this newly created position, he will drive forward the digitization of functional safety and further expand the company's position as an independent solution provider in safety-related automation.
Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf joins the Executive Board in the role of Chief Transformation Officer (CTO). With the move to BSH Hausgeräte, Matthias Metz will leave the Executive Board. Effective July 1, 2022, Sven Hermann, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer of Zeiss Vision Care, will succeed him.
Dr Markus Kogel-Hollacher from Precitec and Dr Claus Schnitzler from Amphos were elected as the association’s new managing director and treasurer on May 5.
At the suggestion of the BDI (Federal Association of Industry), the AUMA (Exhibition and Trade Fair Committee of German Industry) re-elected Philip Harting as Chairman of the Board.
Karsten Roth has won the EMVA Young Professional Award 2022.
Chief Financial Officer Hans-Dieter Schumacher (58) has informed the Supervisory Board that, for personal reasons, he will not be available for another term after his current Management Board contract expires in March 2023.
David Hien was director of business development for Europe and Asia. Effective as of April 4, 2022, he succeeds Eric Delmas, who has decided to pursue his career outside the group.
Adriana Pálffy-Buß has been appointed to the new W2 professorship for theoretical quantum information and quantum optics of the cluster of excellence ct.qmat. She is an expert in the new research field of x-ray quantum optics.
Starting May 01, 2022, the standardization organization ASAM e.V. is led by a new management team. Marius Dupuis takes on the role of chief executive officer and Benjamin Engel the newly created position of chief technology officer.
On April 27, 2022, the board of directors of KEB Automation Italia took place to determine the new management. Marino Crippa (former Marketing and Sales Director of KEB Automation Italia) has been appointed Managing Director, succeeding Andrea Menegale who has retired.
Dr Castelo started in April 2022 and will be supporting the technical needs of the growing membership as well as the EU-funded initiatives.
Leading hi-tech business executive will pioneer new growth phase at Isorg, taking over from founder Jean-Yves Gomez, who becomes CIO.
Dr. Martin Krämer is leaving sensor manufacturer Sick on September 30. Nicole Kurek will join the Executive Board on July 1, 2022 and will be responsible for People & Culture.
