Chair in vision association.

Neil Sandhu (Product Manager for Imaging, Measurement, Ranging & Systems at Sick (GB) has formally been appointed chairman of UKIVA during the vision association’s on-line AGM on 29 January 2021. Sandhu takes over from Allan Anderson (Managing Director at ClearView Imaging) who had completed a two-year cycle as chairman.

Neil Sandhu

Anderson was elected at the same meeting to once again become Vice Chairman. Sandhu paid tribute to Anderson’s contribution, saying: “Allan has done a superb job in taking the Association forward. In particular, he has been hugely instrumental in establishing UKIVA’s Machine Vision Conference and Exhibition as a major event in the machine vision calendar. I am also delighted that Allan will continue to serve the Association and that we will be working together again during my period in office.”

 

Allan Anderson

Sandhu is a well-established member of the UKIVA committee and brings a wealth of experience to his new role. Looking ahead, he continued: “The UK vision industry faces many challenges going forward, both as we emerge from the constraints of the Coronavirus pandemic and as we adapt to the new trading arrangements with the EU. However, with these challenges come many opportunities. Throughout 2020, even in the most demanding economic conditions, the need for greater automation in manufacturing sectors and reductions in workforce availability have led to a surge of interest in machine vision. The extensive range of established and versatile vision technology already in use in a variety of different industries can be readily adapted to meet these emerging requirements.”

 

The other members of the UKIVA committee were also re-elected at the meeting. They comprise representatives from: Acrovision, Alrad Imaging, Bytronic Automation, FT System, IDS, JentonDimaco, Mettler-Toledo Safeline, Multipix Imaging, Scorpion Vision and Stemmer Imaging.

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Change in leadership at automation trade association.

Steve Leech is the new president of GAMBICA and will hold office for the next 2 years. He succeeds Huw Bevan as who served as President  through the difficult period for trade incurred through BREXIT and complicated by the unanticipated pandemic.

Steve Leech

"I extend a warm welcome to Steve and my sincere thanks to Huw for helping to steer GAMBICA through a turbulent period," said GAMBICA Chief Executive, Steve Brambley.

Steve is the Business Manager for the Siemens DCS product business within Great Britain and Ireland. He joined Siemens in 2001 starting within the internal sales function. In 2005 he was promoted to Key Account Management within the Regional Sales team. He has been involved in Vertical Market development within the Energy from Waste sector, helping to define the Siemens market strategy. He became Product Manager for the Process Control Systems product business at Industry Automation with Product Management responsibility for the Siemens DCS platform. He now leads the Siemens Process Control Systems product business in Great Britain and Ireland, working alongside end users and solution partners within the key process market sectors of Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Energy from Waste and Oil & Gas.

He has been on the GAMBICA Management Board for some years representing Siemens on the Process Instrumentation and Control Council. The management board has been a great source of ideas and progress for the association down the years,

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New president in electronics body.

The International Distribution of Electronics Association (IDEA), an international federation of the local country electronic components industry associations has announced the appointment of Georg Steinberger as its new President, effective immediately. Silvio Baronchelli, who served as President of IDEA for 35 years has accepted the role of Honorary President. Steinberger will work in an honorary capacity and share responsibilities with Adam Fletcher, Chairman of IDEA, and Laura Baronchelli, secretary of IDEA and responsible for its administration matters.

Georg Steinberger

“It is a great honour to work with IDEA on the global promotion of the electronics components industry”, said Georg Steinberger on his appointment. “Distribution and its services and solutions are key to the global supply chain and product life cycle of all customers, and it is necessary to underscore our performance for the industry. While the local country associations do an excellent job on collecting market data and collaborating on political, legal, commercial and environmental industry topics, IDEA is the ideal vehicle to surface trends and developments for an international audience.”

Steinberger, who is working as vice-president marketing & communications at Avnet EMEA and heads the German Distribution Association FBDi e.V. as well as DMASS Ltd., is an established leader in the electronic components industry. He started his career as technology editor at German trade magazines in 1987 and joined EBV Elektronik in 1998. When Avnet acquired the EBV Group in 2000, Avnet promoted him to his current position. Since 2003, he is also responsible for environmental compliance within Avnet EMEA and since 2015, he is co-chairing Avnet’s global Corporate Social Responsibility Council.

Silvio Baronchelli

Silvio Baronchelli, past president of IDEA, said: “Georg has created a lot of visibility for distribution in Europe over the last 20 years. We are happy to be able to bring his experience to IDEA to take us to the next level, which is a more intensive sharing of trends, market information and insights into legal and political topics between the members, but ultimately with components manufacturers, authorised distributors and their wider customer base.”

“I’m delighted to welcome Georg to the IDEA Leadership Team, his knowledge and expertise will help guide the association and the global electronic components industry through the next stage of development” said Fletcher, Chairman IDEA, “I’m very grateful to Silvio Baronchelli for the huge and selfless contribution that has made to benefit the global electronic components industry throughout his career, he’s going to be a tough act to follow but I know Georg will rise to the challenge…”

“I wish all in the electronics industry and the IDEA Leadership team continued success, it has been my great pleasure to serve them…” concluded Baronchelli.

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