Tobias Trunk is a manager in the Factory Automation division at John Deere, based at the tractor plant in Mannheim and responsible for 4 plants in Germany.

John Deere is the name of the main brand of the US industrial company Deere & Company. It goes back to the company founder of the same name. The company is one of the leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery. The Group's other brands are Deere (construction machinery and engines), Kemper (harvesting attachments and scarifiers), Frontier (grassland and tillage equipment, among other things) and Vapormatic (spare parts for third-party products).