Control Design – May 2019

customers because they, like Beckhoff, are disrupters in their

industries. They want to create paradigm shifts, not just the

incremental changes made possible through more conserva-

tive, traditional options. Open solutions help companies lever-

age the entire global engineering community to put the power

to truly change the game within reach.

The  nal important thing to know about Beckhoff is that

we are uniquely structured for innovation. Because we are a

privately held company and because of our direct-sales model,

we are able to reinvest a higher percentage of pro ts than our

competitors in research, development and engineering. This

is important because customers are looking for new ways to

respond to our changing world. We have become a critical tech-

nology partner in the e-commerce revolution, the high-tech

entertainment industry and the automotive industry’s trans-

formation to develop electric vehicles. Beckhoff is excited about

this because we’ve always had something different to offer.

Although I am a recent addition to the Beckhoff team,

these values are not. Partnering with customers, providing

open solutions and discovering new ways to work smarter

have been guiding principles since Hans Beckhoff started

the company. His philosophy has always been to empower

people and companies to solve unique challenges by leverag-

ing new automation technologies. My goal as the new leader

of Beckhoff USA is to make sure we carry out this mission

with our customers every day.

Kevin Zak, vice president and general manager at Phoenix

Contact USA (www.phoenixcontact.com), First and foremost,

Phoenix Contact takes pride in being an innovation

engine, developing new products that allow our customers to

address critical needs and to manufacture the end product in a

more productive, ef cient and seamless manner. Secondly,

through our broad portfolio, we offer our customers the

capability to design the majority of their control cabinet

architecture around one manufacturer, while providing them

the highest level of con dence in that design. Lastly, through

our limited lifetime warranty, we make a promise to our

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