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Process Control: SCADA, ERP, MES and networks
News Release from: Citect
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 January 2008
Citect targets European and Middle East
markets
Citect is aiming to further its growth in European and Middle Eastern markets with the appointment of Thomas Hinninger as General Manager for those regions
An industry professional with many years of experience in the industrial automation and real-time intelligence markets, Thomas was formerly with GE Fanuc for eleven years, where he became Regional Manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland Prior to his time with GE Fanuc, Thomas has a proven track record in the SCADA market with the (former) Intellution , which became part of GE Fanuc in 2003
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 10 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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At Intellution he was a Channel Manager, and then Sales Manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Thomas, who is 44 years old, started his career as an application engineer at Siemens, working for the power industry division in hardware and software applications.
In 1989 he joined ABB as a Project Engineer for the pulp and paper group and became the Engineering and Commissioning Manager in 1992: he led the ABB Project Group successfully for four years.
"Now is a particularly exciting time to be joining Citect," said Thomas Hinninger: "Citect is the largest independent SCADA vendor in the world, and is also achieving impressive growth with its Ampla MES system.
The synergy of these two products means that Citect at the forefront in delivering the real time improvements in productivity and efficiency, and the cost reductions demanded by global industry.
At the same time, this synergy is bridging the gap between industrial automation and business IT systems, ensuring that management have true real time information flow, without compromising system performance and reliability".
Apart from his general management duties, Thomas's major task will be developing and growing both the Citect partner channel and direct businesses throughout Europe and the Middle East.
This will involve working closely with the Citect distributors, systems integrators and customers. Request free introductory details about products from Citect ...
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