dSPACE (company)

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dSPACE GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1988
Seat Paderborn
management Herbert Hanselmann
Number of employees 1500 ( June 2018 )
sales 218 million euros ( 2017 )
Branch Automotive , aviation , software , hardware , engineering
Website dspace.com

The dSPACE GmbH ( Digital Signal Processing And Control Engineering ) is a German company in Paderborn (Nordrhein-Westfalen).

The company has several branches in Germany near all major automobile manufacturers, as well as subsidiaries in the USA, Great Britain, France, Japan and China.

application areas

dSPACE offers tools that are used to develop, test, and calibrate control units in the automotive and aerospace industries, as well as in the field of industrial automation. The development and test process for control units (ECUs: Electronic Control Units ) is based in most cases on the so-called V-model . With its hardware and software, dSPACE covers four of the five process steps; the controller design is left out.

History of the company

New dSPACE building in Paderborn

Herbert Hanselmann and three other employees at the Institute for Mechatronics at the University of Paderborn founded dSPACE in 1988. The first local dSPACE company was opened abroad in Detroit (USA) in 1991. Other local dSPACE companies were set up in France (dSPACE SARL, Paris ), Great Britain (dSPACE Ltd., Cambridge ) and another project center in Stuttgart. The local dSPACE company in Japan (dSPACE KK) was founded in 2006. It was initially based in Yokohama, but moved to Tokyo in 2007 . In 2008, the local dSPACE company in China (dSPACE Mechatronic Control Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd) was founded. In 2008 Herbert Hanselmann received the "Entrepreneur of the Year 2008" award. In 2010, dSPACE GmbH moved into the new building in Paderborn. On February 23, 2018 it was announced that Martin Goetzeler will succeed Hanselmann as managing director in March 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Neue Westfaelische , accessed on July 9, 2018.
  2. ^ Neue Westfaelische , accessed on March 1, 2018.
  3. ^ Manager magazine. Retrieved March 31, 2014 .
  4. Press release on dspace.com

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 15.4 "  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 15"  E