Franz will further optimize the existing collaboration between the TKH 2D vision companies, which include industry leaders Allied Vision, Chromasens, Euresys, NET and SVS-Vistek, for maximum customer benefit.

"Walter Denk has played a major role in the positive development of SVS-Vistek in recent years," emphasizes Robert Franz. "He therefore deserves our sincere thanks for his outstanding achievements and the impressive market position that SVS-Vistek occupies today. On this basis, we can plan further growth steps with confidence. We are particularly pleased that Walter Denk will remain associated with the company in an advisory capacity in the future."

By bundling the responsibilities for SVS-Vistek and the other German 2D vision companies of the TKH Group under the management of Robert Franz, the cooperation between the companies is to be further intensified. As essential components of TKH Vision, they have already cooperated in various areas under the same roof in the past. For example, the sales activities under the leadership of Björn Krasemann (CSO) and the marketing activities under the leadership of Johannes Zurin (Director Business Development & Marketing) for SVS-Vistek and Allied Vision have been merged.

The Product Management division under the leadership of Thorsten Schmidt (CPO) and the Research & Development division under the leadership of Gerd Reichle (CTO) will continue to be managed in their existing functions in order to maintain existing competitive advantages. However, there will be a closer exchange and increased cooperation between the two companies in these activities in order to act in a coordinated manner and exploit synergies. Thorsten Schmidt will take on the role of SVS-Vistek site manager for the Gilching site in addition to his existing responsibilities.

There has also been a change in the Operations division: due to the retirement of the previous COO of SVS-Vistek, Gerd Völpel, the COO of Allied Vision, Andre Kruse, is now responsible for both companies in this role. Some purchasing tasks will initially continue to be carried out independently, although the first joint activities have already been successfully implemented. In the next steps, further synergy potential will be analyzed in order to gradually expand the respective functions.

"The main aim of all these measures is to strengthen the presence of both companies with customers and in the market and to operate even more successfully by continuously improving performance in the interests of our customers," explains Robert Franz. "Through the intensified cooperation between SVS-Vistek and Allied Vision, we want to use the best of both companies, continue to grow together and thus exploit the existing potential of both organizations even better than before."