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Newly elected Board of Directors at the EtherCAT Technology Group
6,819 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 (ETG) after its foundation and has been confirmed in office eight times since then. After almost 19 years, Prof. Dr. Peter Heidrich did not stand for re-election at the Membership Assembly. The members and the board of the ETG thanked him for his many years of commitment and unanimously elected him an honorary member of the association. Also without dissenting votes, Dr. Gerhard Grunwald was elected into the board.
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EtherCAT Technology Group now over 7,000 members
There could be no better way to celebrate the 20th anniversary of EtherCAT than with the continued membership growth of the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG). Recently the organization exceeded the 7,000 mark for member companies. And with more than 400 new members every year since 2014, the ETG is not only by far the largest fieldbus organization, but also the fastest growing.