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Digitalization is not only changing work processes in companies. It also places completely new demands on the recruitment of employees. In industry at least, qualified specialists are not easy to find - or to keep. HR departments therefore have to find new ways to find workers and convince them of the company's merits.
read more...Festo board member Dr. Frank Melzer
Festo board member Dr. Frank Melzer takes over as head of the steering committee of the Industry 4.0 platform for the digitalization of the economy in Germany. He replaces SAP board member Bernd Leukert.
read more...Changes to the Executive Board
Dr. Andreas Mayr will take on more responsibility on the Executive Board of the Endress+Hauser Group as Chief Operating Officer from 1 March 2019. In this role, he will be deputy to CEO Matthias Altendorf.
read more...Together with Managing Director Jörg Nagel, Tobias Weiß forms the new top management of access technology and automotive specialist Hymer-Leichtmetallbau.
read more...With the Pilz Education Systems (PES), Pilz is launching a modular training system onto the market. This enables training and further education institutions to improve practical training in the field of safe automation technology.
read more...In the coming years, Siemens plans to invest up to 600 million euros in "Siemensstadt 2.0", a new working and living environment on the historic Siemens site in Berlin Spandau.
read more...I recently read about an exhibition that is currently on show in Venice: Homo Faber - the creative man. On display there is the most luxurious craftsmanship, which is all about skill, originality and creativity.
read more...How will modern manufacturing processes such as additive manufacturing influence the production of the future? Formnext, the leading trade fair for additive manufacturing and modern industrial production and manufacturing processes in Frankfurt, is dedicated to this question, among others.
read more...For the production of its VX25 large enclosure system, Rittal is transforming its plant into a factory of the future with new welding and handling robots during ongoing operations. 50 percent of the conversion has already been completed - the plant is scheduled for completion in 2020 with a total investment of 120 million euros.
read more...Festo opened cylinder production in Rohrbach in 1968. Around 2,800 employees now work here, and around 40 million euros are to be invested in the site in the coming years.
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