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Dr. Lutz Steiner new Senior Vice President Innovation at Lenze
Dr. Lutz Steiner has been Senior Vice President Innovation at global automation specialist Lenze since 1 April 2022. With Steiner, an experienced industry expert and innovation manager with international management experience joins the Group.
In this newly created position, he will be in charge of all innovation within the Lenze Group and will strategically drive forward the technological roadmap. "We want to continue to grow sustainably and must therefore think today in terms of products and solutions that our customers will need tomorrow and beyond. We can only achieve sustainable Industry 4.0 through digitalization and innovation. To achieve this, we still need many new technologies that make it possible to use energy, materials and working time more efficiently - or to put it another way: we need innovations to further reduce the waste of resources. In Dr. Lutz Steiner, we have gained an experienced innovation manager who will drive these issues forward with his scientific and technical expertise and international industry experience," says Lenze CTO Frank Maier.
"Lenze is ideally positioned with 75 years of domain expertise, a large international partner network and a corporate culture characterized by the courage to embrace change. With these building blocks, my ideas and my experience, I want to further shape our technology roadmap and consistently focus on the sustainable digitalization of factory automation," says Steiner, describing his strategy. "As automation experts, our customers expect us to think far ahead so that they can produce more sustainably in the future and remain competitive. To achieve this, we at Lenze have to create technological visions and concepts. I see this as my core task."
Most recently, Lutz Steiner was responsible for RD Building Automation Solutions Asia Pacific at ABB China. In addition to extensive experience in the international automation industry and in innovation management, he has the necessary scientific and technical expertise to manage research and development activities in a targeted manner. He studied electrical engineering and information technology, specializing in automation technology, at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he completed his doctorate in building automation and renewable energies.
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