{"id":96425,"date":"2024-10-16T10:40:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T08:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=96425"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T08:40:37","slug":"new-president-of-the-world-robot-association-ifr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/neuer-praesident-welt-roboter-verband-ifr\/","title":{"rendered":"World Robotics Federation IFR elects new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Executive Board of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) has elected Takayuki Ito as President. At the same time, Jane Heffner was appointed as the new Vice President of the IFR.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Takayuki Ito (Fanuc Corporation) succeeds Marina Bill (ABB), who has held the rotating position since 2022. \u201eI am proud to continue the work of my predecessor Marina Bill, who has been a great ambassador for the world of robotics,\u201c says Takayuki Ito. \u201eWe are currently experiencing <strong>rapid change in automation worldwide<\/strong> of industrial and service sectors. I look forward to working with Jane Heffner of Mobile Industrial Robots as the new Vice President of the IFR on our shared mission.\u201c<\/p>\n<h2><strong>More than 40 years of experience in robotics<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Takayuki Ito can look back on more than 40 years of experience in the robotics industry. He currently works <strong>as Chief Technical Advisor at the robot manufacturer Fanuc Corporation<\/strong> in Oshino, Japan. Since 1981, Takayuki Ito has held various positions at Fanuc: In 1997, he became Executive Vice President for Fanuc Robotics in North America at the Detroit site. In 2002, he returned to the Fanuc headquarters in Japan and took on the role of General Manager for the Robot Technology Centre.<\/p><div class=\"packa-in-post-alle\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"packa-604220684\"><div id=\"packa-3898943240\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"PJ Self-promotion English 03\"><!--noptimize--><img src=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png 840w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-18x5.png 18w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-332x83.png 332w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-664x166.png 664w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-688x172.png 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" width=\"840\" height=\"210\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><!--\/noptimize--><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p><em>Source:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/ifr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IFR<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Executive Board of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) has elected Takayuki Ito as President.","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":96426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"Das Executive Board der International Federation of Robotics (IFR) hat Takayuki Ito zum Pr\u00e4sidenten gew\u00e4hlt.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"IFR","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[43,55,60324,59142,59464],"class_list":{"0":"post-96425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personen","8":"tag-aus-den-unternehmen","9":"tag-automatisieren-und-robotik","10":"tag-international-federation-of-robotics","11":"tag-news-express","12":"tag-personen","13":"cs-entry","14":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}