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News Release from: Fieldbus Foundation
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 April 2007
Pepperl+Fuchs executive joins FF Board
The Fieldbus Foundation has appointed Dr Gunther Kegel, a Pepperl+Fuchs Executive, to its board of directors
The Fieldbus Foundation, conducting a press briefing at the Interkama 2007 Trade Fair and Exhibition in Hannover, Germany, has announced that Dr Gunther Kegel, chief executive officer of Pepperl+Fuchs, Mannheim, Germany, has been appointed to its board of directors Dr Kegel joins other leading executives in the key automation industry post
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 18 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Fieldbus Foundation President and CEO Richard Timoney congratulated Dr Kegel on his appointment to the foundation board of directors.
"Gunther Kegel brings a wealth of automation industry experience to his new post on our board," said Timoney: "He will play an important role in helping guide the foundation in the future, and in ensuring the continued growth of our technology around the world".
Dr Kegel studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany.
After completing his doctoral thesis on the topic of "Integration of Sensor Signals Into Robotic Controls", he became a freelance engineering collaborator for several small-sized engineering companies.
In 1990, Dr Kegel was employed by Pepperl+Fuchs Mannheim, a manufacturer of electronics for factory and process automation, as head of its pre-design department.
He was subsequently appointed head of the Pepperl+Fuchs Development Department/Factory Automation, and later served as its deputy managing director.
Since 2004, he has served as chief executive officer of Pepperl+Fuchs Mannheim.
In 2005, Dr Kegel was appointed chairman of the Fieldbus Foundation Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Executive Advisory Council.
He also serves on the board of directors for the FDT Group AISBL and on the supervisory board of the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.
Dr Kegel has authored numerous publications in the field of sensor and interface technology, and holds positions in the ZVEI (Central Association of electrical and electronic industries in Germany) and on advisory boards of exhibition organisations.
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