
Hans Seifert to Become Chief Sales Officer
Sigmatek has appointed Hans Seifert as Chief Sales Officer (CSO). His area of responsibility includes international sales, marketing, application engineering, and support.

The Weidmüller Group is strengthening its first management level as of October 1, 2024: Dr. Sebastian Durst, previously Chief Operations Officer, will take over the newly created position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

The Hamburg-based Joachim Herz Foundation acquires a stake in Weidmüller as part of a capital increase and thus holds around 20% of the shares in the family-owned company. The commitment is aimed at long-term corporate development and accelerated growth.

The Harting Technology Group, a provider of industrial connection technology, has announced that it will be bundling supra-regional top management positions in Switzerland to drive forward global management.

At the end of May 2024, the China-based company Nanjing Loyst Industrial Networks was recognized as a new IO-Link test lab. This brings the number of IO-Link test labs worldwide to four.

Wago, a provider of electrical connection and automation technology, and Radiflow, a specialist in OT cyber security, are entering into a partnership and pooling their expertise. Together, they want to strengthen resilience against potential cyber threats.

Deutschmann Automation offers an embedded version of the 'Unigate Falcon' protocol converter/gateway series that can be integrated immediately. The 'Unigate Falcon Embedded' communication solution quickly provides an Industrial Ethernet or fieldbus interface.
The Wago Group is growing for the third year in a row and will achieve sales of EUR 1.37 billion in 2023. This means that the manufacturer of electrical connection and automation technology has increased its turnover by 2.2% compared to the previous year.

With eDNP/8331, SSV offers a concept for virtual System-on-Module (vSoM) solutions including various wireless IoT modules.

Weidmüller is launching new unmanaged switches with the name 'EcoLine Series B'. Enhanced functions such as Quality of Service and Broadcast Storm Protection are technical highlights.

Lütze is expanding the intelligent current monitoring system 'LOCC-Box' with an IO-Link gateway for coupling up to 15 LOCC-Box Net modules.