Dr.-Ing. Stefan Kaierle, scientific-technical director of the Laser Zentrum Hannover LZH, has accepted the appointment as Professor for Laser Additive Processing in a joint appointment procedure of the Leibniz University Hannover and the LZH, effective as of August 15th, 2021.
At last, pandemic rules made it possible for the elected board members to gather for a constituent meeting on August 4 and 5, 2021, at the EMVA member Zeiss Automated Inspection Systems' facilities. Of course, everyone is double-vaccinated, the EMVA emphasizes.
On September 1, 2021, Mustapha El Bouchouafi will succeed Cyril Aujard as Managing Director of Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions France.
Onsemi announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which the company will acquire GTAT for $415 million in cash. The transaction, which has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of Onsemi and GTAT, is expected to close in the first half of 2022.
IDS exceeded industry expectations in the first half of 2021. Instead of the 7 percent increase in sales forecast for the machine vision industry by the VDMA, the company has so far more than doubled its growth.
Society’s next vice president is also co-chair of SPIE Photonics West BiOS conference
Torsten Nolting took over as head of ABB's Electrification business area in Germany on August 1, 2021. He succeeds Uwe Laudenklos, who became Lead Business Area Manager Northern and Central Europe for the same business area on April 1 of this year.
Effective immediately, Susanne Kretzschmar will strengthen the strategic market development of the machine vision software Halcon as Commercial Product Manager at MVTec.
Effective August 1, Alexander Lewinsky became Managing Director of camera manufacturer IDS. The engineer takes over the operational management of the Obersulm-based company alongside Jan Hartmann. Company founder and shareholder Jürgen Hartmann remains responsible for development and product management.
Company forms nucleus of the new machine vision solutions division of Atlas Copco.
Photonics specialist had co-founded spectroscopy company Avantes and led it as CEO until 2020.
Company director Stephan Gais hands over the baton and moves to the advisory board as a member.
With a participation of 135 participants from 23 nations the 19th EMVA Business Conference Special Edition 2021 took place online. A total of 20 speeches, two fireside chats and two CEO/Management panel discussions covered virtually all current actual economic and technical topics that the machine vision world currently deals with. During the individual B2B sessions about 90 virtual bilateral video meetings were arranged between conference attendees before and after the conference program in the afternoons.
Andreas Wienke takes over optical components branch from Lars Jensen.
"During the 2020 corona pandemic, the global microelectronics market grew by 6.8 percent to 440 billion US dollars compared to the previous year," said Dr. Sven Baumann, ZVEI expert for microelectronics, sensors and actuators, on the occasion of the ZVEI press conference to present the current ZVEI microelectronics trend analysis. In particular, the strong demand for electronics for the home office (such as PCs) and consumer electronics (such as game consoles and TVs) established this upward trend.
Excelitas Technologies has signed a binding agreement to take over PCO AG from Kelheim. PCO is a privately held company and a developer and manufacturer of high quality scientific CMOS cameras for imaging in biomedical and high-speed industrial applications. Excelitas will acquire 100 percent of the shares in PCO AG from its founder Dr. Emil Ott acquire.
New role will advance company’s market diversification and development of more trend-setting products for new applications.
The company takes care of the practical training of the next generation of engineers: In the photovoltaic laboratory of the electrical engineering department at the HTBLuVA Salzburg, modern automation technology is now available to the students.
In 1964 Günter and Margret Blase founded the igus company in their backyard garage in Cologne-Mülheim. In 2021 the international company will supply customers all over the world with its lubrication-free and maintenance-free products. On the occasion of the 90th birthday of the founding couple, Igus is now bringing the garage back to life.
Internal solution in place until a new CEO has been appointed.
Joachim Ullrich, who has held the presidency since 2012, will then retire due to age.
The General Assembly of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions taking place in an online format June 1st, 2021, has elected the new EMVA Board of Directors.
From September 1, 2021, Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf (52) will take over as Head of Corporate Human Resources at the Zeiss Group.
April survey by Spectaris and OptecNet shows recovery after the crisis year 2020 / Sales in the industry could reach 46 billion euros in 2021 / Industry is experiencing a digitization boost from Corona
The sensor manufacturer Sick is changing the top of its management board on October 1, 2021: Then Dr. Robert Bauer will take his leave and Dr. Mats Gökstorp will follow to take the place as CEO. At the same time, Dr. Niels Syassen will be appointed to the Executive Board. He will assume responsibility for Technology & Digitalization.
Stemmer Imaging AG got off to a good start in the 2021 financial year and was able to continue the upward trend from the second half of 2020. This is already indicated by the recently published preliminary figures, which the company confirms today.
Effective immediately, Mike Hevey will become divisional vice president and global business manager at Ametek Surface Vision.
Following the unexpected death of company founder Ernst Rauscher at the end of 2020, Rauscher has now also officially reorganized management responsibilities.
Like the EMVA Business Conference, this year's General Assembly will take place in virtual space. In this context, the members will elect the new EMVA Board on the afternoon of June 1, 2021.
On August 1, 2021, Dr. Stefan Häberle will become Chairman of the Management Board of Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH. He succeeds Hellmuth Aeugle, who is retiring. Häberle will thus lead the subsidiary of Carl Zeiss AG together with Dr. Bernhardt Ohnesorge.
Omron Electronic Components Europe has appointed Tomonori Morimura as the new Chief Operating Officer with full responsibility for business in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia. His new activity, based in Hoofddorp, Netherlands, began in early April 2021.
Together with the German Industrial IT Center (CIIT), Hilscher has entered into a strategic partnership in Germany's first science-to-business center for industrial automation. The company will set up a new location with three employees in Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia. The start of the cooperation between CIIT and Hilscher is planned for the middle of the year.
Basler AG has released the audited annual report for fiscal year 2020 today. In a declining market environment characterized by Covid-19 in 2020, the group‘s sales increased to Euro 170.5 million (previous year: Euro 162.0 million). Incoming orders amounted to Euro 181.6 million, and were significantly higher than the previous year’s level of Euro 166.5 million.
The initial consideration of £6.3m is being settled out of Solid State’s existing cash resources and banking facilities.
Povlsen will take over his new role as President on March 1, 2021.
