Industrial Ethernet Seminar | Speaker
- Martin Rostan, Executive Director of ETG
- Martin Falkman, Head of Product Management HMS
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Martin Rostan studied Aerospace Engineering in Germany and in the United
Kingdom and received his Diploma Degree in 1992. Subsequently he managed the
international research project that developed the initial CANopen technology.
From 1996 until 1998 he was marketing manager and authorized officer at
Selectron. Since 1998 he is with Beckhoff, first as senior product manager for
Ethernet and fieldbus systems and since 2006 as Head of Technology Marketing. |
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Martin serves the fieldbus community in various committees: he is the
Executive Director of the EtherCAT Technology Group, chairs the CANopen
groups inside CAN in Automation and represents Beckhoff in ODVA and in several
conference program committees. He also is technical expert in ISO and IEC
standardization committees for industrial communication. With publications in
magazines, text books, conferences and symposia he contributes to the
dissemination of fieldbus and Ethernet technologies. |
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Martin Falkman's first employment was as an electrician in 1992 in
Germany building and installing control systems for heating, ventilation and
climate control. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of
Linköping (B.Sc.) in Sweden with an exam in 1996. Started working on Swedens
biggest technology consultant, ÅF Elteknik. The focus was industrial automation
with control system programming (PLC, SCADA) and electrical system design.
Applications ranged from saw mills, paper mills, mobile telephone production to
medical equipment production. The HMS Industrial Networks employment started in
1999 and since then the focus has been industrial fieldbus and Ethernet systems.
Today Martin functions as the manager of the HMS Product department with
product line managers, global technical support and technical writer functions. |
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