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Time and distance have a way of blurring the hard edges, sharp points and intense disputes that accompany innovation. Years later, what once seemed a ridiculous or foolish idea is thought of as an obvious, "of course, we knew it all along" approach. One example is the "disposable" approach to the NASA Apollo mission's lunar module lander, which was largely conceived a...
Standards organization ASTM has named new directors who will serve on the organization’s board of directors. The new directors are Christina Lomasney, Brent Stucker, James Simnick and Jun Sasaki. Christina A. Lomasney, president, CEO and co-founder of Modumetal in Seattle, Wash., a manufacturer of nanolaminated coatings, claddings and alloys, will serve a three-year t...
In the latest edition of our quarterly e-magazine we talk disruptive energy innovations with Cleantech investor Alain Harrus. CEO of California-based Kateeva, Harrus was an early investor in Tesla motors and is still just as passionate about finding technologies that are as equally innovative as Tesla’s energy control system for cars. He explains to us how flow batteries...
Mass production. The assembly line. The Model T. We’re talking about industrialist extraordinaire, Henry Ford. He revolutionized industry, has his own ‘-ism’ (Fordism) and is an icon of manufacturing. So who today is living up to the standard set by Mr. Ford himself? Here are our Top 3 candidates for today’s Henry Ford: 3.) Jeff Bezos, Amazon Ford didn’t inve...
Töging, Germany, 01.08.2018: "Mr. Pössnicker brings the necessary knowledge, has the experience to lead a team and convinces with a lot of commitment and ideas. Our goal is to continue to increase sales in this business unit in the coming years". Says Georg Senftl, Managing Director of ViscoTec. Daniel Pössnicker's sales team serves customers in a wide variety of ind...
– What are the main technological challenges of the sector? The Basque Country positioned itself as the unskilled and cheap workforce of European industry 25 years ago until different changes began to take place, such as the qualification of production, investment in improvement and different indicators that were marking a clear path towards which is now the Basque In...
Virgilio Perez Guembe is the new Head of Sales at SCHWING Technologies, a leading international manufacturer of thermal cleaning systems based in the Lower Rhine region. Born in Spain, he has been working for the medium-sized company since 2014. As sales manager, he was previously responsible for the sales of cleaning systems for extrusion, injection moulding and recycli...
Bryan Cullis new President for Hirose Electric EMEA As part of Hirose Electric Co. Ltd.’s Global policy to localise and strengthen management, it is with great pleasure that Hirose Electric Europe B.V has promoted Bryan Cullis from Vice President to President of EMEA with immediate effect. Bryan joined Hirose Electric UK Ltd in December 2006 and was instrumental in th...
It was our great pleasure to welcome Mr Salman Mohamed Almalek of Vibrant Machines for Technical Services from Bahrain for service training. Vibrant Machines for Technical Services have been an exclusive distributor of Cygnus Instruments since 2012 and are now committed to offer full aftersales support, since receiving service training at our UK Head Office. Vibrant M...
Edouard Ferreira an ACIMEX employee since 35 years has moved to a higher level position, he has been actually appointed technical director of the company. Today he is the expert for segment vacuum handling in the tunneling area. The ACIMEX company is the worldwide leader for the supply of handling and lifting equipment to the tunneling market. ACIMEX is today looking to...
American producer Pharrell Williams has joined forces with Dutch denim manufacturer G-Star Raw to create a line of eco-denim made of…plastic bottles. These high-fashion confections are spun in Bionic Yarn, a high-performance eco-thread made of processed plastic waste recovered from the ocean. The Raw For The Ocean project aims to “turn plastic into something fantastic;” ...
FlexQube is excited to welcome the newest member of our quickly growing US Sales Team, Shawn Lynch! Shawn is joining us as our newest Regional Sales Manager and will be managing the US Southeast. Shawn is a Design Engineer, who loves networking and working alongside people, so he found his passion within sales. He has joined FlexQube from Creform and had been working ...
Adam will be joining us at FlexQube HQ as the Operations Manager. Adam joined us while we were exhibiting at MODEX, towards the beginning of this month. He also spent last week over in the USA at our assembly facility in Swainsboro, Georgia, getting hands on with the assembly process and the products. Adam is joining FlexQube after spending several years within the lo...
At March 31, 2018, Manfred Bär hands over the IEF-Werner management in Furtwangen to Stefan Deck and Manfred Meyer. Both are from the sales department and have been with the company for many years. However, who knows Mr. Bär, is aware that this is less of an end than the beginning of something new. The 66-year-old Manfred Bär is now able to dedicate himself to challenges...
The Fritz Studer Award is aimed at graduates of European universities and technical colleges. Creative ideas and solutions in the area of the machine tool industry are targeted. "The goal behind the research award is, on the one hand, feasible solutions and ideas which strengthen the innovative power of the machine tool industry and, on the other, our desire to use th...
SpotSee announced today that it has appointed Jan Van Niekerk as the company’s vice president of engineering and innovation. In this role, Jan Niekerk will be responsible for the gathering of direct insight from targeted customers and translating customer problems into innovative solutions for current and future products. Jan's Niekerk's history as a leading innovator wi...
Mr. Larkin brings to SP broad experience as a senior executive having spent the last 27 years in commercial and executive leadership roles in the medical device industry. Most recently he served as Vice President and General Manager for Becton Dickinson's US Diabetes Care business and prior to that was Senior Vice President and General Manager of LifeCell Corporation. Be...
Mr. Shomaker brings 27 years of experience in the metalworking industry to SCHUNK. His extensive background includes engineering, technical sales, sales management, general management and strategic account management. Bo started his career in engineering and quickly moved into technical sales where he has held positions in territory sales, application solutions and was t...
Morris will receive the 2018 Pittcon Heritage Award on Monday, February 26, 4:45 p.m. during a ceremony in Chapin Theater (W320) at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, USA. If you are at Pittcon this week, please join us to celebrate Mike’s passion for science and his boundless creativity that lead to one of the most fascinating innovations in optica...
Lévis, Québec, February 22, 2018—Creaform a worldwide leader in accurate portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, today announced the promotion Fanny Truchon as Business Unit Manager, effective March 1, 2018. Ms. Truchon succeeds Martin Lamontagne, Creaform founder and current Business Unit Manager. With our new modern headquarters coming to full op...
Joseph Smith has joined SpotSee as supply chain director to deploy processes that deliver positive results in the areas of cost, quality, delivery, service and product improvement.
All it took were two short discussions to sort out the details: Robin Meier (30) joined L.B. Bohle Maschinen + Verfahren GmbH as Manager Scientific Operations on 15 August 2016. Robin Meier, who was born in Essen, explains the pragmatic decisions as follows: “I knew the company from my doctoral studies in pharmaceutical technology and biopharmaceutics at Düsseldorf Univ...
Effective January 1, 2018, Stefan Hantke (50) will take over the position of CEO of Schneeberger Holding AG in Roggwil. In his new position, Hantke will be Chairman of the management team of Schneeberger Group and will be responsible for the entire linear bearings, system technology and mineral casting production business. He is succeeding Dr. Hans-Martin Schneeberger,...
David Salerno joins SOLO Swiss as Head of the new SOLO Swiss Group division “Standards & Services”. He was previously General Manager of SAFED in Switzerland and Germany.
After 27 extremely prosperous years, Robert Zimmermann will be retiring as one of the managing partners of the AZO Group in Osterburken at the end of 2017. The current management by Robert and Rainer Zimmermann will be transferred to Rainer Zimmermann as the sole managing partner. The AZO Group will thus stay a family business under the ownership of the Zimmermann famili...
During his career at Siemens Prof. Heinzl has become one of the pioneers for drop-on-demand printing technology and later became a professor at the TU Munich for fine-tool engineering and micro-technology. This is where he and our CEO and Co-Founder, Dr. Ederer, have met. Initially, Prof. Heinzl was a counselor and shareholder but has become a member of the supervisory b...
She has joined our Head Office in Göteborg, Sweden but is originally from Venezuela. We are really looking forward to her approach on new ideas and input to new designs. Cinthia loves working alongside customers and understanding their needs, then taking their opinions to help create a design which is perfect to their particular situation. Cinthia has much experience ...
Prior Scientific Instruments reports that James Duff, an Electrical Engineer for Prior, has been awarded the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Prize for the most Outstanding Students, after graduating with a First Class BEng(Hons) Degree in Electronics. Mr Duff earned distinction throughout his course at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. James origina...
The 29-year-old new general manager of Jinming Machinery(Guangdong) Co. Ltd. (W1591) combines a global vision and mindset, partly from his Western education, with a sense of responsibility as strong as his father, founder and chairman of the 28-year-old company. Ma Jiazhen, who received his high school and college education in mechanical engineering in Australia, deci...
Mr. Cannon’s extensive and varied leadership experience, together with his proven operational expertise and ability to adapt business strategies to meet evolving market needs, makes him ideally suited to lead FLIR and its portfolio of innovative technology-based products and applications. He previously served for more than 16 years in a variety of senior leadership posit...
She joined the North American organisation three years ago, predominantly in a marketing role and has been instrumental in driving the growth of the company in the States. For this leading British autoclave design and manufacturing specialist Priorclave, America is rapidly becoming one of its major overseas success stories. For cultural, regulatory, and practical reas...
Lauda-Königshofen, June 13, 2017 – Dr. Ralf Hermann started work as the new General Manager Constant temperature equipment on June 1, 2017 at LAUDA, the global leader in the manufacture of Constant temperature equipment and systems. With his extensive experience and comprehensive specialized knowledge gained from many years in a managerial capacity at Eppendorf AG, as we...
Our partner was established in 1995 in Brno (Czech Republic) and is specialized on high-quality 3D production. MCAE offers complete 3D solutions to the automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering industry, like 3D digitizing and measurement, CAD solutions and different 3D printing technologies for rapid prototyping. As sales partner for other market leaders, like St...
High-level visit at voxeljet AG's head office in Friedberg: on Wednesday, 9 September 2015, Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs Ilse Aigner visited a number of companies to obtain insights into the success stories of the Bavarian start-up scene. The first station on this tour was voxeljet. While visiting the company's production buildings, the minister was very impres...
SARAN, France (May 15, 2017) — John Deere Power Systems is pleased to announce a new partnership with Power Equipment Pty. Ltd., which is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with branches in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and New Zealand. Power Equipment will be the official distributor of John Deere Power Systems engines for all markets, including...
