Norbert Bargmann, Deputy Managing Director of Messe München GmbH and responsible for the business area of New Technologies, is very pleased to present an experienced employee with Armin Wittmann as the new project manager of AUTOMATICA. At the same time, all the best wishes go to the previous Project Manager Anja Schneider, who is taking a maternity leave. "Anja Schneider has decisively shaped AUTOMATICA since 2004, our International Trade Fair for Automation and Mechatronics. We want to thank her very much and wish her and her growing family all the best!"
 
Armin Wittmann is taking charge of the AUTOMATICA team effective immediately. He already worked successfully for inhorgenta for 15 years, the leading Trade Fair for Watches, Clocks, Jewellery, Precious Stones, Pearls and Technology. Messe München GmbH again recorded a record number of visitors at this event this year. With his involvement in AUTOMATICA, Armin Wittmann, Engineering & Business Graduate, is taking advantage of the chance to advance his career within Messe München. The new project manager is being supported by the AUTOMATICA Project Spokespersons Erika Angerer and Nora Hansen, who is also a new member of the team.
 
Dr. Michael Wenzel, Managing Director of Reis GmbH & Co. KG in Obernburg, Chairperson of the VDMA trade association Robotics + Automation and Advisory Board Chairperson of AUTOMATICA also wished the new project manager lots of success. "AUTOMATICA was able to establish itself excellently as an innovation platform for the automation industry under the management of Anja Schneider in only four years. I would also like to thank Anja Schneider personally for her outstanding collaboration during the many years of our working together. She and her team promoted the trade fair of Messe München with a lot of energy. I am very pleased that Armin Wittmann has the same spirit as an experienced trade fair employee and now is working to expand the leading role of AUTOMATICA in Europe further."
 
"We are convinced that Armin Wittmann can contribute his many years of experience to the further development and success of AUTOMATICA and that consequently the trade fair is optimally equipped to meet the challenges of the future," Mr. Bargmann stating in welcoming the new project manager.
 
Armin Wittmann is looking forward to this challenge and is totally convinced that AUTOMATICA 2012, which will take place from 22 to 25 May 2012, still has great potential. "The trade fair will get even better in all respects compared to the last event. This can be seen clearly in the advance bookings. Among other things, more than 10 percent more area has already been booked compared to the comparable time period of the last AUTOMATICA. I am optimistic that the trade fair will fill five halls in 2012, i.e., one more than in 2010.
 



About AUTOMATICA
International Trade Fair for Automation and Mechatronics
AUTOMATICA is an international trade fair, which covers all areas of robotics + automation in one event. It has taken place on the grounds of the New Munich Trade Fair Centre every two years since 2004. The aim of the fair is to present the entire value-added chain in robotics and automation. Messe München GmbH and VDMA Robotik + Automation, trade fair industry advisor, are behind the industry-driven concept of AUTOMATICA. Exhibitor and visitor statistics for AUTOMATICA are audited by an independent auditor for the order of the Gesellschaft zur Freiwilligen Kontrolle von Messe- und Ausstellungszahlen (Society for Voluntary Control of Fair and Exhibition Statistics) and internationally by UFI (Global Association of the Exhibition Industry).
 
About Messe München International (MMI)
Messe München International (MMI) is one of the world’s leading trade-fair organizations with approximately 40 trade fairs for investment goods, consumer goods and new technologies. More than 30,000 exhibitors from more than 100 countries and over two million visitors from more than 200 countries take part each year in the trade fairs in Munich. In addition, MMI organizes trade fairs in Asia, Russia, the Middle East and South America. With six foreign affiliated companies in Europe and Asia as well as 66 foreign representatives covering 89 countries, MMI has a global network.
 
Contact person for the press:
AUTOMATICA
Claudia Huber – Press Officer of Messe München GmbH
Tel. (+49 89) 949 - 21471
Fax (+49 89) 949 – 97 21471
E-mail: claudia.huber@messe-muenchen.de

VDMA Robotik + Automation
Thilo Brodtmann, Managing Director, VDMA Robotics + Automation
Tel. (+49 69) 6603 - 1590
Fax (+49 69) 6603 - 2590
E-mail: thilo.brodtmann@vdma.org
www.vdma.org/r+a