Overview: Interviews
“We need more clout.”
06.10.2025
Interview with Gerd Weissenfels, Managing Partner of IBEDA and former Chairman of the Professional Association for Welding and Compressed Gas Technology Interviewer
“We want to be perceived as a relevant valve manufacturer in the market overall”
30.06.2025
In this interview, Andreas Laschke, the new President Valves at KSB, talks about the strategic realignment of the company with a focus on the valves business, digitalization and international expansion.
“We save 150,000 sheets of paper in administration every year”
02.06.2025
For some time now, fittings manufacturer Mankenberg has been committed to using as little paper as possible. The company is also pursuing a number of other sustainability goals, such as the economical use of materials in production. In an exclusive interview, Managing Director Dr. Stefan Nehlsen explains how the ecological balance is to be improved even further in the future.
“Data spaces are crucial for the use of AI”
26.05.2025
The best AI tools are useless if they cannot access the right data or if the required data has not been semantically processed and cannot be exchanged interoperably. Andreas Faath, Managing Director of the VDMA Machine Information Interoperability (MII) department, explains in an interview what role data spaces play here and why they are so important for the value-creating use of AI.
“Boundless Automation will marry IT and OT”
10.03.2025
At the NAMUR 2024 Annual General Meeting, Emerson presented Boundless Automation℠, a vision of what a software-centric automation and operations architecture of the future could look like.
“The Pressure to develop digital solutions is increasing”
20.01.2025
Interview with Andreas Vogt, Managing Director of F.I.R.S.T.
“We are seeing an increased demand for predictive maintenance”
11.11.2024
Philipp Strauch, Sales Director DACH - Isolation & Pressure Management Valves at Emerson, and Volker Buchta, Sales Director DACH Flow Controls at Emerson, talk in an interview with Industrial Valves about Boundless Automation TM and the future plans of the company.
“Our focus is on the future”
01.10.2024
Sealing pioneer IDT on the key turning points and milestones in its 100-year history. Interview with CEO Simone Wilson.
“We have done pioneering work with the German LNG terminals”
19.08.2024
The newly founded Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH (DET) commenced business operations in January 2023. The federally owned company operates the four state-leased floating LNG terminals (FSRU) in Brunsbüttel, Stade and Wilhelmshaven.
“Production is already underway with the MTP”
25.06.2024
If you want to produce modularly today, there is no getting around the Module Type Package (MTP) in the process industry. Nevertheless, many people claim that the rollout of the technology has so far fallen short of expectations. Find out why this is a fallacy, what the future of modularization looks like and what the MTP and Ethernet APL have in common in an interview with atp magazin.