Sensors
Generation change at Sensopart
On August 1, Thorsten Wanner took over the operational management from his father Dr. Theodor Wanner, who founded the sensor company Sensopart Industriesensorik 25 years ago.
Thorsten Wanner studied electrical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and then completed an international MBA program at the College des Ingenieurs in Paris. After a total of seven years in development, product management and sales in Germany and abroad in the automation technology division of Siemens and four years in product management and business development at Festo in Esslingen, he joined Sensopart at the end of 2015, where he took over responsibility for marketing and business development. After a year, he also took on responsibility for the subsidiaries in China, France, England and the USA. He has been Head of Global Sales since 2018.
Sensopart develops, produces and distributes a wide range of sensors for factory automation. The focus is on optoelectronic sensors and camera-based vision sensors for industrial applications - for example, for detecting objects or colors, for distance measurement, for code reading or in robotics.
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