Beckhoff USA names Shanklin as sales manager

Beckhoff Automation LLC has chosen Don Shanklin as its Great Lakes District sales manager. Based in the Cleveland area, Shanklin’s territory will include Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and northern Kentucky.

He comes to Beckhoff with decades of sales and application engineering experience in the automation industry, most recently after a 17-year stint with Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc.

His responsibilities will include handling strategic Beckhoff accounts and overseeing development efforts of the established local sales and application engineering group.

Beckhoff, Savage, Minn., supplies open control and automation products.