Andreas Wank Dr.-Ing., Head of Smart Innovation, Pepperl+Fuchs SE
Dr. Andreas Wank has been Head of the Smart Innovation department at Pepperl+Fuchs SE since January 2022 and also leads the company-wide Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) program. He joined the company in 2019, initially managing the International Quality Management project with a focus on traceability and incident management.
Before that, he spent five years as a Research Associate at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he held various leadership roles, including Managing Director of the Mittelstand 4.0 Competence Center, Team Leader for Industrial Production Management, and Assistant to the President of the German Academic Association for Production Technology.