Thomas Hibinger has been the new COO of intralogistics expert viastore Systems in Stuttgart since May 2020. In this capacity, he will manage the company's international operations and be responsible for sales, implementation, service and the production of storage and retrieval machines.
Until now, the 41-year-old mechanical engineer was COO of thyssenkrupp Systems Engineering. „We are very pleased to have such a Professional in international plant engineering for us,“ says Philipp Hahn-Woernle, CEO of the viastore Group. „With his hands-on approach, he fits in very well with us.“
Thomas Hibinger, married and father of three children, started his career after his Mechanical engineering studies with a focus on production technology at the Technical University of Karlsruhe 16 years ago. Career at plant manufacturer Eisenmann. After holding various positions there, including in the USA and China, he headed up global project management in the automotive sector and was most recently responsible for international sales in this area as Vice-President Sales before joining the company as COO. thyssenkrupp System Engineering changed.
His goal is, viastore Systems internationally even more focussed on customer needs and increase the competitive advantage of customers through efficient material flows in logistics and production.
„The prerequisites for this are in place at viastore as family-run company excellent: short decision-making processes, you can make a difference here and the team has an enormous amount of expertise,“ explains Thomas Hibinger.
Source: viastore Systems
