Process Innovations: Machining - HEIDENHAIN

Session Topic: Digital Transformation in 5-Axis Machining

Vice President of Marketing

HEIDENHAIN

Gisbert Ledvon is vice president of marketing for HEIDENHAIN Corp. in North America.

With more than 25 years of extensive corporate industrial machine business and marketing experience, he is responsible for strategic marcom for the entire HEIDENHAIN product line and served market segments such as automation, semiconductor/electronics and machine tool, as well as the TNC-end-user applications team. For the last 7 years he grew the TNC-OEM and end-user business substantially and specifically in aerospace and precision 5-axis machining applications.

HEIDENHAIN’s CNC control models are referred to as TNCs and are growing in market share in North America. Ledvon is responsible for developing a strategy to drive technical value and commercial demand for the admired high-end TNC controls as well as machine monitoring at the end user and OEM levels.

Prior to joining HEIDENHAIN, Ledvon served as the director of business development for many years, as well as product and applications manager prior to that, both for a major machine tool company providing EDM, milling, laser, additive, and automation solutions. Gisbert supports AMT, AMBA, NTMA, TMA, and its members. Since 1998, he served on several technical committees and the IMTS show committee.

Born in Germany and beginning his professional training as an apprentice via the Tool and Die Vocational College in Olsberg, Germany, Ledvon has lived in the United States for 30 years now, where he completed a business program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois, in 2009.

HEIDENHAIN develops and manufactures linear and angle encoders, rotary encoders, digital readouts, length gauges, and numerical controls for demanding positioning tasks. HEIDENHAIN products are used primarily in high-precision machine tools as well as in plants for the production and processing of electronic components. Our comprehensive product program offers solutions for all applications in which the highest possible accuracy, reliable reproducibility and repeatability, safe process management, high machine dynamics, simple-operation, and of course maximum efficiency are required. Our products are therefore used primarily in high-precision machine tools, in plants for the production and processing of electronic components as well as in automated systems and machines. In addition, we supply our products to manufacturers of elevators, medical technology, and others. With our extensive experience and know-how in the development and manufacture of measuring devices and numerical controls, we create the groundwork for the automation of tomorrow’s plants and production machines.

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