Tilcon Software, a supplier of graphic development tools for the embedded market has named Franz-Josef Maintz as Sales Director for Europe. He will be responsible for building up the European sales channels in the automotive, medicine technology, consumer devices and industry automation markets and will also have responsibility for supervising the distributors. Maintz was for nine years at Force Computers (today Motorola). Before that he was with ISI (Integrated Systems International, today Wind River) and with QNX (today Harmann International).