New Board of Directors member at the EtherCAT Technology Group

6819 days in office: Prof. Dr. Peter Heidrich was elected in the beginning of 2004 as a member of the Board of Directors at the first Membership Assembly of the EtherCAT Technology Group after its foundation and has been confirmed in office eight times since then. In 2004 he was still Director of the Drives Engineering Department at ETG founding member Baumüller, and since 2010 he has also represented the interests of the academic and scientific world on the board of the world's largest fieldbus organization as Professor of Control and Drive Engineering at Pforzheim University: of the nearly 7000 members, more than 300 are universities and colleges, and many research institutes and large-scale research facilities are also in the ETG. After almost 19 years, Prof. Heidrich did not stand for re-election at the Membership Assembly.
The members and the board of the ETG thanked Heidrich for his many years of commitment and unanimously elected him an honorary member of the association. The new board member was also elected without dissenting votes: Dr. Gerhard Grunwald from the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
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