ODENSE, Denmark--(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/S
PA for Jürgen von Hollen
Liselotte
Winter Frellsen, +45 69 66 99 02
lwf@universal-robots.com
or
Teradyne
Inc.
Andrew J. Blanchard
Vice President, Corporate
Relations
andy.blanchard@teradyne.com
Source: Universal Robots
