Auerbach machine factory

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Auerbach machine factory
legal form Business division GmbH
founding 1943
Seat Ellefeld , Germany
management Uwe Hartmann, Thomas Gemeinhardt
Number of employees approx. 50
Website ermafa.de

The Auerbach Maschinenfabrik is a manufacturer of machine tools , particularly deep hole drilling machines and deep drilling milling machines, but also of milling machines . It is based in Ellefeld . The factory, founded in 1943 , is a division of ERMAFA Sondermaschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH .

history

Prehistory to 1945

  • 1919 Jungk and Neidhardt starts manufacturing "Elhoma" woodworking machines in Ellefeld
  • 1924 Jungk and Neidhardt expanded the product range and opened their own iron foundry
  • from 1943 production of special, milling and countersinking tools in Auerbach / Vogtl. as a result of a relocation of the Remscheid tool factory Alfred Berghaus

1945 to 1990

After the Second World War, production could quickly be resumed because the Jungk and Neidhardt and Alfred Berghaus factories were hardly affected by dismantling. In 1948 the Berghaus family returned to the Rhineland and still produce special tools under the name Alberg . The company in Auerbach / Vogtl. was managed in trust, but continued to operate under the name of Alfred Berghaus. On June 15, 1950, the company became public property , subordinated to VVB TEWA and initially called itself VEB Werkzeugfabrik. From January 1, 1957, the company was renamed VEB Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Auerbach (WEMA) and incorporated into VVB Werkzeugmaschinen und Werkzeuge .

In the years 1958 to 1963, manually controlled and partially automated console milling machines were developed and produced. Through the joint development of an NC control with VEB Starkstromanlagenbau Karl-Marx-Stadt , the first NC console milling machine with an automatic tool changer was manufactured in 1968.

The Jungk and Neidhardt company became public property in 1946. From 1947 the now renamed VEB Ellma began with the production of simple woodworking machines. From 1949 VEB Ellma was affiliated to SDAG Wismut and also manufactured pneumatic hammers. It was not until 1952 that a wide range of machine tools for the woodworking industry developed again after being assigned to the VVB for agricultural, construction and woodworking machines.

On January 1, 1970, VEB Ellma was merged with VEB Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Auerbach (WEMA) and incorporated into the Fritz Heckert machine tool combine . At times, the factory with 1250 employees was the largest manufacturer of NC-controlled milling machines in the GDR. The development of a CNC-controlled flexible manufacturing system "M250 / 02" in 1972 attracted international attention. In the 1980s, the production of machining centers began and flexible manufacturing cells and manufacturing systems were developed.

The company had its own vocational school in Grünbach .

Awarded the Saxon State Prize for Design 1993: ACW-400 machining center (design: Wolf Röhner )

From 1990 until today

With the break-up of the Fritz Heckert machine tool combine , VEB Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Auerbach was privatized with the establishment of Auerbach Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH and initially sold to the Wagner Group. After bankruptcy in 1996, the IXION Group took over. The Ixion Auerbach Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Ellefeld developed in the following years a wide range of milling machines and specialized in the combination of deep drilling and milling.

Auerbach Maschinenfabrik has been a division of ERMAFA Sondermaschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH in Chemnitz since 2014 .

Products

The product range of Auerbach Maschinenfabrik includes heavy bed milling machines with flat guides (FBE series) or with roller guides (AX5 B series) as well as deep drilling machines (TLW series) and combined deep drilling and milling machines (TLF series). With the new development of a micro deep drilling machine MTB 100 in 2018, the machine factory opened up new production processes for micro machining.

See also

literature

  • Peter Kuttig (Editor), Ulrich Franz (Author); WEMA 1943–1995: Half a century of industrial history in Auerbach , Bibliofidel, September 2001, ISBN 978-3-925820-80-9
  • Hans J. Naumann and Reimund Neugebauer: Machine tool construction in Saxony: from the beginning to the present. Location with competence, innovation and flexibility. Ed .: Hans J. Naumann / Reimund Neugebauer on behalf of the Competence Center for Mechanical Engineering Chemnitz / Saxony eV Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz 2003, ISBN 3-910186-44-0 , pp. 136-138.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regina Meier: And again the city archive. (PDF) Auerbach City Archives, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  2. ^ Franz, Ulrich .: The WEMA: 1943–1995; half a century of industrial history in Auerbach; with many documents, photos and illustrations . Verl. Bibliofidel, Falkenstein 2001, ISBN 3-925820-80-9 .
  3. ↑ a b c Hans J. Naumann / Reimund Neugebauer (eds.); on behalf of the competence center for mechanical engineering Chemnitz / Sachsen eV: Machine tool manufacturing in Saxony: from the beginning to the present . Heimatland Saxony, Chemnitz 2003, ISBN 3-910186-44-0 .
  4. ↑ Horst Teichmann: Elhoma-Ellma-Wema . In: Ellefeld community and Secundo Verlag GmbH (ed.): Ellefelder Bote . No. 3/2003 . Secundo Verlag GmbH, Neumark March 5, 2003.
  5. ↑ Late chance for the WEMA article in Neues Deutschland. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  6. ^ Koren, Yoram .: The global manufacturing revolution: product-process-business integration and reconfigurable systems . Wiley, Hoboken, NJ 2013, ISBN 978-0-470-92080-0 .
  7. ^ FM Stansfield: The Role of Computers in Machine Tool Design . In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference . Macmillan Education UK, London 1974, ISBN 978-1-349-01923-6 , pp. 517-527 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-349-01921-2_66 .
  8. ^ Eva Siebenherz: The school book (Saxony): School directory & archive for Saxony . neobooks Self-Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7380-2820-1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  9. ↑ Axel Gebauer; WARENFORM http: // www / goods form net Felix Langhammer: Machine tools «Fritz Heckert» (new Germany). Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Axel Gebauer; WARENFORM http: // www / goodsform net Felix Langhammer :? Ixion takes over Wema Auerbach (new Germany). Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Micro deep drilling. Accessed December 30, 2018 .