Teradyne Inc. Announces New Universal Robots President
October 03 2016 - 2:15AM
Business Wire
Universal Robots A/S (UR), a Teradyne company and the global
leader in the collaborative robot market, today named Jürgen von
Hollen President effective immediately. He succeeds Enrico Krog
Iversen who relinquished the post in June 2016 to pursue other
interests.
Mr. von Hollen was most recently the Executive President of the
Engineering Solutions Division, which includes the Automation and
Controls business of Bilfinger SE, in Mannheim, Germany, a leading
international Engineering and Services company. In his role at
Bilfinger, he was responsible for a global staff of nearly 10,000
and annual sales in excess of €1.0 billion. Mr. von Hollen began
his career with Daimler-Benz aerospace and held senior management
roles at Daimler-Chrysler Services, Deutsche Telecom and
Pentair.
“We’re delighted to have Jürgen leading Universal Robots through
this period of explosive growth,” said Teradyne CEO Mark Jagiela.
“Jürgen’s experience developing and leading global teams serving a
broad range of industrial and commercial customers is tremendously
important as we drive the adoption of easy to use, safe, and
economical Cobots across the globe.”
“I am excited to join Universal Robots as they work to
fundamentally reshape automation across the global economy,” said
Mr. von Hollen. “The opportunity to lead and expand a high powered
organization like UR with such a long term, high growth outlook is
very rare and I look forward to working with our worldwide
distributors, partners, and customers in the days ahead to realize
the full potential of collaborative robots.”
Mr. von Hollen is based in Odense, Denmark.
About Teradyne
Teradyne (NYSE:TER) is a leading supplier of automation
equipment for test and industrial applications. Teradyne Automatic
Test Equipment (ATE) is used to test semiconductors, wireless
products, data storage and complex electronic systems, which serve
consumer, communications, industrial and government customers. Our
Industrial Automation products include Collaborative Robots used by
global manufacturing and light industrial customers to improve
quality and increase manufacturing efficiency. In 2015, Teradyne
had revenue of $1.64 billion and currently employs approximately
4,200 people worldwide. For more information, visit
www.teradyne.com. Teradyne(R) is a registered trademark of
Teradyne, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
About Universal Robots
Universal Robots is the result of many years of intensive
research at Denmark's successful robot cluster, which is located in
Odense, Denmark. The company was co-founded in 2005 by the
company’s CTO, Esben Østergaard, who wanted to make robot
technology accessible to all by developing small, user-friendly,
reasonably priced, flexible industrial robots that are safe to
work with and on their own can be used to streamline
processes in the industry. The product portfolio includes the
collaborative UR3, UR5 and UR10 robotic arms named after their
payload in kilos. Since the first UR robot launched in December
2008, the company has experienced considerable growth with the
user-friendly robots now sold in more than 50 countries worldwide.
At just 195 days, the average payback period for UR robots is the
fastest in the industry. The company, a part of Boston-based
Teradyne Inc., is headquartered in Odense and has subsidiaries and
regional offices in the U.S., Spain, Germany, Singapore, Czech
Republic, India, and China. Universal Robots has more than 300
employees worldwide. Learn more
at: www.universal-robots.com
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Universal Robots A/SPA for Jürgen von HollenLiselotte
Winter Frellsen, +45 69 66 99
02lwf@universal-robots.comorTeradyne Inc.Andrew J.
BlanchardVice President, Corporate
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