Change of leadership at Messring
After many years of successful work as Managing Director at Messring, the leading company in the development and manufacture of crash test technologies, Dierk Arp is entering his well-deserved retirement.
With the new KR Fortec, Kuka is launching an all-rounder on the market. The heavy-duty robot is energy-efficient and dynamic in handling applications.
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German industry in third place worldwide
According to the International Federation of Robotics, Germany is one of the top automated economies in the world: robot density in the manufacturing sector rose to 415 installed industrial robots per 10,000 employees.
Chairman of the Board of Executive...
Dr. Markus Kamieth will become Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF at the end of the Annual Meeting on April 25, 2024. This was decided by the Supervisory Board at its meeting on 20 December 2023. Markus Kamieth has been a member of the BASF Board of Executive Directors since 2017 and succeeds Dr. Martin Brudermüller.
Ai Nagakubo is branch manager in Neuss
Yamaha Robotics announces that Ai Nagakubo has been appointed to the position of Branch Manager at the company's European headquarters in Neuss near Düsseldorf, Germany, effective January 1, 2024. Ai Nagakubo has been a team member since the branch was founded in 2011.
Dr. Peter Selders takes over as CEO at Endress+Hauser. Matthias Altendorf is the new Chairman of the Board of Directors.
The SAE Racing Team at Munich University of Applied Sciences designs and builds its own racing car every year as part of the Formula Student racing series and uses 3D printing, among other things. Niklas Rösler and his team also took part in the largest Formula Student event at the Hockenheimring.
The gearbox specialist Neugart, headquartered in Kippenheim, Baden, is responding to the challenges of the international mechanical engineering industry by adapting its management structure.
The German economy is weakening and, according to the Institute for Macroeconomics and Business Cycle Research (IMK), will only recover slowly in 2024. The mechanical engineering sector is also feeling the effects. In order to strengthen its own competitiveness, there is therefore no way around automation.
ABB today announced the acquisition of Swiss startup Sevensense, a provider of AI-powered 3D vision navigation technology for autonomous mobile robots (AMR). Sevensense was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
