Florian Weihard

CTO of ruhlamat Automation Technologies

Florian Weihard is an Industry 4.0 Specialist and Chief Technology Officer with long Engineering and General Management experience. He has completed his mechanical engineering studies at OTH Regensburg, Germany in 2009. After starting his carrier as design engineer in the R&D in Germany in the same year, he moved to China in 2010. Over the following years, he set up and managed engineering offices and plants in China, Singapore, USA and Malaysia. Since 2015, he has been focusing on Industry 4.0 and Digitalization as well as Fuel Cell production technologies. As CTO, he is now responsible for the Innovation Management and Technology Development in ruhlamat Automation Technologies as well as for the Digitalization Division as GM of ruhlamat Smart Technologies. He is also the Co-initiator and Technology Expert of the Smart Manufacturing Application Sharing Forum as well as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of DUSA European Companies Suzhou Association. He as won the Jiangsu High-Level Innovation and Entrepreneurship High Skilled Talent award of 2018 and was invited to the 2020 Spring Festival Symposium for Foreign Experts hosted by Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing.