
Change in management
Sebastian Seitz has taken over as CEO of Eplan and Cideon, replacing Maximilian Brandl.
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Sebastian Seitz has taken over as CEO of Eplan and Cideon, replacing Maximilian Brandl.

Industrial automation specialist Omron Electronics has expanded the role of Dr. Klaus Kluger, who is now General Manager of the Central and Eastern Europe regions.

Physik Instrumente has founded a new subsidiary, PI Innovation. Lucius Amelung takes over the management.

'Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award'
The American Robotic Industries Association (RIA) has honored Gudrun Litzenberger and Esben Østergaard with the 'Engelberger Robotics Award 2018'. Both have made outstanding contributions to the robotics industry.

Joachim Strobel has been the new CEO of Infoteam Software AG since July 3, 2018. He succeeds Christian Zahn.

Christian Weisenahl has been a member of the Management Board of Sick Vertriebs-GmbH, based in Düsseldorf, since July 1, 2018. The controlling specialist succeeds Roland Noz.

With the founding of LFS Technology, Lohmeier has expanded its product range beyond enclosure construction to include machine enclosures. A new managing director joins the company for this expansion.

At its ordinary meeting, the main board of the VDMA elected family entrepreneur Henrik Schunk as Vice President of the association. Schunk replaces Norbert Basler on the Executive Committee, who has resigned from office for personal reasons.

With the Managing Directors Dr. Philipp Dehn (CEO), Helmut Pusch (CSO) and Christian Köstler (COO), Dr. Thomas Schöpf is now at the helm of Dehn + Söhne as CTO. He takes over the position from Peter Zahlmann.

VDMA Electrical Automation Association
At the general meeting of the VDMA Electrical Automation Association, a new board was elected for the next term of office.