LAPP presents Smart Cable Drum to Angela Merkel and Stefan Löfven

Impressed by the digital solution at the LAPP booth: German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. Andreas Lapp, CEO of Stuttgart-based LAPP Holding AG, took the opportunity to briefly introduce his company to the guests: "We are a hidden champion and world market leader in the field of cable and connection technology. LAPP has 18 production sites worldwide, 44 international sales companies and 4,245 employees. "LAPP is also very successful in Scandinavia. In Sweden we employ more than 100 people". Digital demonstration object: Smart Cable Drum Digitalization and Industry 4.0, summarized at LAPP under the term "Industrial Data Communication", are very important topics for his company, according to the CEO. As an example of how digitization automates and accelerates processes, he demonstrated a prototype of the Smart Cable Drum, which LAPP is developing together with Schildknecht.