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In d u s t r y Ne w s 6 | w w w c o m p u t e r - a u t o m a t i o n d e i n t e r n a t i o n a l · Ja n u a r y 2 0 2 5 New Managing Director appointed Jens Holzhammer is the new Managing Director of Panduit for the Europe Middle East and Africa EMEA region In this role he will drive forward the strategic direction and growth of the American familyowned company in this region Jens Holzhammer succeeds Ralph Lolies who was EMEA Managing Director at Panduit for over ten years and took his welldeserved retirement on January 1 2025 Before joining Panduit Holzhammer held management positions at international companies in the electronics and IT industry including Managing Director The graduate engineer studied communications engineering at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen and holds a Master of Business Administration MBA from the renowned Henley Business School ik Changes in Corporate Management Training and Exhibition Center for AMR opened ABB Robotics has opened a training and exhibition center in Madrid dedicated to its autonomous mobile robot AMR product line The center houses training facilities and exhibition areas to introduce this technology to customers partners and employees „With their advanced capabilities enabled by AI and 3D vision technology AMRs are revolutionizing logistics and manufacturing They boost efficiency increase flexibility and improve safety As the demand for AMR continues to grow more qualified specialists are also needed to program operate and maintain them “ emphasizes Marc Segura Head of ABB Robotics „This is exactly where ABB‘s AMR center comes in Indepth training enables companies to qualify their employees to work with our AMRs and software “ The AMR Center‘s stateoftheart training and exhibition facilities enable companies to explore the potential of AMR and empower their employees to deploy operate and maintain them in logistics and intralogistics applications The center‘s training programs aim to enable faster commissioning reduce downtime and maximize customers‘ return on investment The training content - from preventive and corrective maintenance to software upgrades and fault diagnosis - is aimed at a wide audience including maintenance technicians automation engineers and operations managers They are also available to ABB employees so that they can keep up to date with the latest technologies and safety procedures In addition to the training sessions visitors to the exhibition areas will get an impression of the versatility of ABB‘s AMR portfolio They can see AMR models such as Flexley Tug Flexley Mover and Flexley Stack in action as well as solutions using Visual SLAM 3D navigation technology and AMR Studio software Companies can also use them to design and test robotic solutions virtually which significantly speeds up onsite implementation ik Robots and drones rehearse an emergency at a nuclear power plant together As part of the European Robotics Hackathon EnRicH 2025 robotics experts from all over the world will meet near Vienna in early July at the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant which has never been put into operation There they put their robotic systems to the test under the most difficult conditions The unique feature of the 5th Hackathon is the work with real radiation sources and the realistic conditions The nuclear reactor is almost identical in construction to the nuclear power plant in Fukushima where one of the biggest reactor disasters occurred in 2011 Almost complete darkness in the building tight corners narrow rooms steep stairs selfclosing doors and no or only limited communication options are part of the realistic starting conditions for all EnRicH teams There are several levels of narrow gratings with waisthigh railings leading to the other parts of the nuclear power plant Pipes and cables run along the meterthick concrete walls and a number of valves protrude from the wall These are anything but ideal conditions for flying UAVs unmanned aerial vehicles And yet this is precisely part of the task at EnRicH 2025 „For the first time there will be a combined scenario for flying and moving systems next year “ reveals EnRicH organizer Dr Frank E Schneider Deputy Head of the Cognitive Mobile Systems department at Fraunhofer FKIE ah Ralph J Lolies rechts übergibt den Staffelstab bei Panduit in EMEA an Jens Holzhammer links Bi ld Pan du it Call for the European Robotics Hackathon Matthias Lapp is handing over his role as CEO of the EMEA region Europe Middle East Africa to Michael Seddig with effect from April 1 2025 Lapp himself will concentrate on his duties as Chairman of the Lapp Group As CEO EMEA Michael Seddig will therefore be responsible for the family company‘s largest sales region from April 2025 As COO EMEA he has spent the last one and a half years driving forward the alignment of the supply chain with the customer a wide range of process improvements and massive expansions in production capacity He will continue in this role Before joining Lapp Seddig held global customerfacing management positions at Leoni a supplier of cable solutions and wiring systems for the automotive industry „With this key appointment we are specifically strengthening our global and regional management structure in order to align our organization even more quickly and precisely with the needs of our customers in the future It was clear to me right from the start of the generational change that Iwould ultimately like to focus on the global CEO position The regional management position was to be filled internally We have now found the right person for this from within our own ranks “ explains Matthias Lapp ik Matthias Lapp rechts übergibt seine Rolle als CEO EMEA an Michael Seddig Bi ld La pp