TE CONNECTIVITY
158 through the head of operations , Lu ’ s responsibility covers all the TE segments : Communications , Transportation and Industrial . Today he has a team of 50 engineers located in the USA , Mexico , Europe and China but his organization had to be built from scratch . “ In March 2012 I inherited a small team and was allocated a budget – my boss asked me what I wanted to call it , so I said AMT . At the time that stood for advanced manufacturing technology but we rethought that , taking into account the rapid growth of automation , and now the A in the acronym stands for automation !”
This nimble approach typifies the company and its leadership , he continues . “ Back in 2012 it was quite visionary of the company to see that automation was going to be such a big deal . We have to give this credit to our leaders because who can estimate what is going to happen a few years down the road ? That is another reason that I really like this company : the leaders are not only interested in this quarter ’ s performance on the stock exchange market but also looking forward years down the road to see
NOVEMBER 2019