Stäubli Robotics: Gerald Vogt in charge of global robot business

27.01.2017

Gerald Vogt started working at Stäubli almost 20 years ago. In 1997, while studying for a higher degree, he served an internship at the company’s main development and production site in Faverges. Today, his role as Group Division Manager puts him firmly in charge of Stäubli’s global robotics business.

Gerald Vogt started working at Stäubli almost 20 years ago. In 1997, while studying for a higher degree, he served an internship at the company’s main development and production site in Faverges. Today, his role as Group Division Manager puts him firmly in charge of Stäubli’s global robotics business.

The 46-year-old graduate in Engineering and Business Management, who has dual citizenship and grew up in a bilingual German/French environment, started out at Faverges as project manager for measurement robots. Two years later, he was entrusted with responsibility for the expansion of strategic marketing.

Other roles in the company have included a five-year secondment to Stäubli Robotics North America and a stint as Head of Research and Development in the Robotics Division on his return to Faverges. During Vogt’s five years in the USA, he and his team were able to increase sales by 100 percent. Under his leadership as Head of R&D, Stäubli succeeded in getting such pioneering projects as the FAST Picker TP80 and the world’s fastest Safe Robots market ready.

In 2014, Gerald Vogt succeeded Manfred Hübschmann as CEO of Stäubli Tec-Systems GmbH in Bayreuth. Midway through 2016, he was appointed Group Division Manager. Vogt has hit the ground running in this new role: “We intend to systematically press forward with our ambitious growth strategy, expanding our market position worldwide, particularly in North America and Asia. Having already established ourselves as market leader in the Life Science sector, we now aim to do the same in food manufacturing. Our Safe Robots are setting the benchmark in terms of technology, and we are highly confident that we can bring a host of MRC [Man-Robot Collaboration] solutions to a variety of markets in the coming years. All in all, we see ourselves as well placed vis-à-vis the global competition.”

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