With nearly 25 years in the Priorclave service department, 10 years as Field Service manager, he brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise and management skills that will ensure the service team consistently provide one of the finest support roles to all their customers around the world. Prior to his appointment as Service Manager, Ranjit provided a lead role to service...
UWT Level Control India Pvt. Ltd., India gains further support for the Indian market. Mr. Sumit Majumder is responsible as Country Manager for India. Prakhar Kapoor will support as Asst. Area Manager Sumit Majumder, Country Manager for the region of Gurgaon. Sunirmal Bardhan is responsible as Regional Manager for the Office Eastern India in Kolkata of UWT Level Control...
Labthink International, an international technology company and manufacturer of materials testing instrumentation, is pleased to announce that Raymond Velazquez Jr. has been appointed to the position of Regional Sales Manager. Ray Velazquez Jr. a native of Boston Mass. joins us with 20+ years of “Fortune 50” management, operations and executive sales experience. He ...
"Demand is more for solutions providers and not so much for product suppliers" Mr. Baumeister, you have been Manager of the Palletizing and Packaging Systems Division at the BEUMER Group in Beckum since October 2015. In this function, you control and coordinate the global competence center in this sector. What are your tasks and which goals do you want to achieve? ...
SP Industries, Inc. (SP) has announced the appointment of Ian Whitehall as Chief Sales Officer managing and directing all global sales programs for the company’s three divisions, SP Scientific, SP Scienceware and SP Ableware. Most recently EVP for SP Scientific Sales & Service, Whitehall joined SP in 2005 when the company acquired Genevac Ltd. from Thermo-Fisher Scie...
The Bavarian company, ViscoTec Pumpen- u. Dosiertechnik GmbH, is a specialist provider of solutions for precision dosing technology tasks and highly repeatable dosing processes in the fully automated industrial production. In his position as Business Development Manager Aerospace, Franz Kamhuber strengthens the sales team in order for Viscotec to continue providing the b...
Labthink International, an international technology company and manufacturer of materials testing instrumentation, is pleased to announce that Martin Bryant has been appointed to the position of director of sales. Martin’s career in test and measurement instrumentation sales and marketing spans almost 20 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree (Bsc) in Chemistry and Bus...
Rockwell Automation's (NYSE: ROK) board of directors has elected Blake D. Moret, a 30-year veteran of the company, as president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective July 1, 2016. At that time Keith D. Nosbusch, 65, who has been president and CEO since 2004, will transition from those roles while continuing as chairman of the board. Moret, 53, is currently senior ...
Resolve Optics has appointed Mr Peter Chamberlain to the newly created position of Production Manager. The key responsibilities of this new position will include production planning, ensuring orders are produced on time, maintaining and improving product quality and production processes, management of ISO 9001 and 14001 accreditation as well as identifying and implementi...
Hopfgartner has a large expertise in sales and knows the company since its foundation. Prior to joining Nextsense in 2009 as International Sales Manager, he worked as a consultant where Nextsense was amongst his customers. During the last seven years he was in charge of the worldwide acquisition of customers and sales partners and took over the representation of Franz Sc...
HIMA has announced to have engaged marketing and strategy specialist Eva Meiswinkel to consult management on global projects. As an executive staff member, she is responsible for further development of the corporate strategy as well as for initiating and implementing strategic projects for the global organization. Her appointment became effective February 1. "We are d...
My name is Georgia Grace. I work as a wind turbine service technician working for Siemens, having just finished my Apprenticeship. I love working offshore and to have the novelty of saying I go to work on a boat every day is great! I’ve always known that I wanted to do a practical job. My father was an engineer in the Army and at school I had a very keen interest i...
The award recognized Mr. Crotts, founder of Crotts & Saunders LLC, a machine tool distributor, for his outstanding support of the manufacturing technology industry. His distinctive bow tie was also honored! “Why are so many people wearing bowties to this business meeting?” I thought. AMT’s business meeting (which took place during the MFG Meeting, the conference for m...
The Amiga was a pioneering graphics computer first introduced in 1985. It is still used by enthusiasts today, a group that call themselves Amigans. These Amiga fans took to Twitter immediately after word of Needle’s death went public. A few samples: P Scott Paterson (@OriginalPSP): “In honor of gaming pioneer Dave Needle, who passed away yesterday - [video] A name all...
The 19th edition of the renowned prize "Entrepreneur Of The Year", awarding distinguishing leadership excellence in mid-sized German companies, honored Dr. Ralf Köster, winner in the category "industry". Since 2004, Dr. Ralf Köster has been managing BARTEC Group, headquartered in Bad Mergentheim, as CEO. The jury particularly recognized Dr. Ralf Köster's exemplary commit...
From the 1st of November, Andreas Conrad is the new Senior Vice President Operations at the HARTING Technology Group. He succeeds Torsten Ratzmann. Mr. Conrad graduated in mechanical engineering and later completed a further degree in industrial engineering on an extra-occupational basis. Mr. Conrad's last position was Managing Director at Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & ...
Methods Machine Tools Inc. promoted Robert Nakash general manager to head up Methods’operations in Phoenix, Arizona. Since 2007, Mr. Nakash has held the position of sales engineer at Methods’ Phoenix, Arizona, branch. Prior to that, he was at Mori Seiki USA Inc. for 17 years in various positions, including regional manager, application/service manager, and applicatio...
John Soukup has been appointed southeast U.S. regional sales manager for Hainbuch America. Mr. Soukup brings an excellent applications engineering background to the position and has spent the past 4 years in technical sales representing the Okuma and Chiron lines of CNC machines. Prior to that, he spent 2 decades in application engineering and machine design. Jim Woo...
Hwacheon Machinery America has appointed Robert Nedler to the position of managing director, in charge of sales, service and general operations at Hwacheon Machinery America covering North and South America, according to the company. Mr. Nedler previously was V.P., sales and product manager, milling at Hwacheon. He has been with the company since 2012. Mr. Nedler repl...
Methods Machine Tools Inc. recently appointed Peter S. Jung to the position of marketing manager. Mr. Jung will be responsible for Methods’ branding; content direction, development and production via the company’s website, digital and print media; sales collateral; trade shows, open houses and other marketing support endeavors for Methods’ corporate and partner brands, i...
Matt Block has joined Royal Products' sales team as a regional business manager. Based in Waukesha, Wis., Mr. Block will support Royal's distribution network throughout Wisconsin, Illinois, Northeastern Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. Mr. Block comes to Royal with 15 years of industry experience, having held engineering and sales positions with several major machin...
Röhm Products of America recently hired Mike Padilla as national sales manager. With more than 18 years of industry-related experience and strong management skills, Mr. Padilla oversees sales in the U.S. and Canada of Röhm’s comprehensive offering of chucks, centers, vises, tool clamping and automation systems as well as customized solutions for turning, milling, drillin...
His role is to be multifaceted and includes taking care of global customers in this fast moving, highly competitive and demanding sector and supporting the regional sales team within their key account business. His role will also incorporate analysing emerging trends and markets within the industry such as software and networking convergence and the growing integration o...
The International Society of Automation (ISA) named James Keaveney as its 2016 President. As President, Keaveney will work with society leaders and staff to increase the ISA's range of capabilities and resources for automation professionals, which includes standards development, education, training, certification, certificate programs, publications, and technical symposi...
Around 440 members of staff at SCHURTER AG, Switzerland, and 1,600 employees at the SCHURTER Group worldwide are active in the development, production and manufacture of electronic components, both for standard products and client-specific solutions. With SCHURTER exporting 85 % of its products, similar to other export companies, the enterprise is now confronted with the...
Precision bearing manufacturer Schaeffler has announced the appointment of Martin Ryan as Industrial Aftermarket Director at Schaeffler (UK) Limited. Martin joined Schaeffler UK in 1990, working in various roles within the sales department, including Commercial Manager. In his new role as Industrial Aftermarket Director, Martin is responsible for all UK distribution a...
The Schmersal Group has appointed Michael Mandel as the managing director of K.A. Schmersal GmbH & Co. KG (Wuppertal/ Wettenberg). The 45-year-old will run the company alongside the managing directors and shareholders Heinz Schmersal and Philip Schmersal. In his new position, which he took over on 1 April 2015, Michael Mandel will also continue to take responsibility for...
Mitsubishi Electric declares the appointment of Yoji Saito to the role of President and CEO of the company's European operations as of 1 April 2015. Based at Mitsubishi Electric's European Corporate Office in Uxbridge, Mr. Saito's new responsibilities include leading the European Sales Company Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V., as well as the role of head representative of...
He holds an MSEE and Ph.D. from Warsaw Technical University, Poland and has completed the Executive Management Program at Stanford University. An early MEMS champion, Dr. Bryzek is co-founder of nine MEMS companies in Silicon Valley. Inspired in part by a very popular book, “Abundance” by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, he is the primary force behind the TSensors Sum...
Current President Berend Bracht (photo, right) will pass the baton onto Cooke after serving in the position for approximately nine years. “We thank Mr. Bracht for his high level of commitment in the many years of service to Bosch Rexroth. We wish him all the best for the future,” said Dr. Karl Tragl, Chairman of the Executive Board of Bosch Rexroth. Since joining Bosc...
Colm Lavery previously headed the Northern Ireland operations of rival firm EC Harris, where he was invovled in such projects as Titanic Belfast, the Lyric Theatre and Bangor Aurora Aquatic & Leisure Complex. Turner & Townsend clients in Northern Ireland include Belfast City Council, Queen’s University Belfast and NI Water. “I am very excited to be joining the Turn...
Mark Butler takes responsibility for business development at Toppesfield to help the firm continue its recent growth trajectory. Mr Butler was commercial director at EM Highways for 16 months until June 2014. His previous employers include Flowline, Atkins, Accord and Thames Water. He began his career as a trainee with Amey Construction where he graduated as a quanti...
Paul Dodsworth joins Wates from Bowmer & Kirkland, where he spent eight years as construction director overseeing projects in the North East and Scotland. Wates is currently building the £100m Central Square office development in Leeds and wants to grow its presence in new markets in Newcastle, Teesside, Sunderland and Durham. At Bowmer & Kirkland, Paul Dodsworth l...
Eric Olsen – who is presently executive vice-president of Lafarge in charge of operations – will be in office as from the closing of the merger project. The 51-year-old has been a member of the Lafarge’s executive committee since 2007 and his appointment was proposed by Lafarge chairman and CEO Bruno Lafont. He has dual American and French nationalities and has held s...
The Michigan-based company elected Norman Davis, Jr. to serve as its new president and succeed Dr. Verne Brown, who held the position for 43 years until his passing. Davis brings a wealth of knowledge to this position with a background in executive management and business development, focused in the safety and instrument sensor technology market He has held a wide va...
