On December 12, 2023, the general meeting of the AS-International Association was again held online. In addition to the annual review of 2023 and the planning for the coming year 2024, the agenda also included the regular elections of the Management Board.

This year's elections re-elected Jochen Bihl from Bihl+Wiedemann as Chairman of the Board, Bernd Kaiser from Siemens as Vice-Chairman and Frank Ebert from Pepperl+Fuchs as Head of the Technical Commission. Ralf Kämper from ifm was newly elected to the Board as Treasurer.

We would like to thank our long-standing treasurer Michael Strauss for many years of good and successful cooperation!

Overall, we look back at a successful year and are excited about this year's activities and events. The first highlight in 2024 will be the Hannover Messe!

The annual members assembly of the AS-International Association met on December 12, 2023. We thank all ASi members for the good cooperation in the past year.

In addition to the annual review of 2023 and planning for the upcoming year 2024, the agenda also included the regular elections of the Executive Board.

This year's elections confirmed Jochen Bihl (Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH) as Chairman of the Board, Bernd Kaiser (Siemens AG) as Vice-Chairman and Frank Ebert (Pepperl+Fuchs AG) as Head of the Technical Commission. Ralf Kämper (ifm electronic gmbh) was newly elected to the Board as Treasurer.

We are thankful for our long-standing treasurer Michael Strauss for the many years of good cooperation. Mr. Strauss is leaving the Board due to his well-deserved retirement. We wish him all the best for this new chapter in his life.

Overall, we look back on a successful year and are excited about the activities and events this year. The first highlight in 2024 for AS-International will be the Hannover Messe!

On December 9, 2021, the members' assembly of the AS-International Association again took place virtually due to the Corona Pandemic. The agenda included the review of the year 2021 and the planning for the coming year 2022, as well as the regular elections of the board. These elections were held online for the first time with the help of a secure election tool.

In this year's elections, Jochen Bihl (Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH) was re-elected as chairman of the board, Dr. Markus Platen (Siemens AG) as vice chairman, and Michael Strauss (ifm electronic gmbh) as treasurer. Frank Ebert (Pepperl+Fuchs AG) was newly elected to the board as head of the technical commission.

We look back on a year with many challenges and interesting experiences. Also in 2021, many events could not take place as usual. Despite the characterizing year, we are pleased that the cooperation with our member companies - even at distance - worked very well.

We would like to thank the Board of Directors for their work over the past two years and look forward to the new year with confidence. To good cooperation!

At the end of December 2021 the annual members assembly of the AS-International Association took place online again. The members' assembly focused on a number of different issues - from the review of the year 2021 to the planned activities for the year 2022. A new board of directors was also elected.

We wish everyone a good and successful start to 2022.