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News Release from: Siemens Automation and Drives
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 May 2007
Automation and drives president
announced
Succeeding Tilo Brandis, Guenter Lauber will be the new president of the Electronics Assembly Systems at Siemens Automation and Drives.
Guenter Lauber will succeed Tilo Brandis as new President of the Electronics Assembly Systems (EA) at Siemens A and D Brandis will move to the USA as president of UGS, the leading provider of product lifecycle management software and services that was recently acquired by Siemens and is now a division of Siemens Automation and Drives
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 9 Aug 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Together with Dr Alexander Gruschwitz, the CFO of Siemens EA, Lauber will head the entire A and D EA global division headquartered in Munich, Germany, with Centres of Competence in the USA (Atlanta, Georgia), Shanghai (China) and Singapore, and support sites all over the world.
Lauber, who was born in 1961, is intimately familiar with electronics manufacturing and Siplace placement machines.
Lauber joined Siemens in 1986 and has held various management positions with strategic as well as profit-and-loss responsibilities in the EA sales organisation in Europe and later in North and South America.
"As the new president of A and D's Electronics Assembly Systems I am pleased to take responsibility for a very familiar and healthy division.
I know from my many years of sales experience that our high-quality systems and services offer clear and sustained cost and competitive benefits to our customers in the electronics manufacturing industry.
In my new position I want to do everything I can to steadily improve the value we provide to our customers as their technology partner of choice and use this position to enhance our own standing in all markets," said Lauber.
In the USA, long-term Siplace vice president of sales Jeff Timms will succeed Lauber as the general manager of the US business.
* About Guenter Lauber - for Siplace customers and employees, Lauber is not a new face.
For more than ten years, he has been a major contributor to the success of Siplace solutions in the SMT market, first as the head of European sales, then as the head of the Regional Headquarters Europe, and finally as the executive vice-president and general manager in the USA in charge of the Siplace business in North and South America.
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