Hameg
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| legal form | GmbH , subsidiary of Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1957 in Frankfurt am Main |
| resolution | 2016 |
| Reason for dissolution | Integration in Rohde & Schwarz |
| Seat | Mainhausen , Hessen , Germany |
| management | Andre Vander Stichelen, Holger Asmussen |
| Number of employees | 80 |
| sales | EUR 15 million |
| Website | www.hameg.com |
The Hameg Instruments GmbH (proper spelling HAMEG Instruments GmbH ) was a German company for the development and manufacturing of laboratory power supplies and measuring instruments for electrical signals . The company headquarters was in Mainhausen, Hesse .
In 2005, Hameg was taken over by Rohde & Schwarz and, after being fully integrated into their measurement technology division, dissolved as a company in 2016.
history
The company was founded in 1957 by Karl Hartmann in Frankfurt am Main under the name Hameg KG. The name is derived from Hartmann measuring devices . The first product was a 5 MHz single channel oscilloscope. The company founder retired in 2005 for reasons of age and sold the company to Rohde & Schwarz . The name was changed to Hameg Instruments GmbH.
At that time Hameg had branches in Chemnitz (oscilloscope development) and Münchenbernsdorf ( circuit board assembly), as well as a sales subsidiary in France (Hameg Instruments France Sarl). At the end of 2010, Hameg gave up the Mainhausen and Münchenbernsdorf production sites and has been producing in Rohde & Schwarz plants ever since. Other parts of the company such as development (Mainhausen and Chemnitz), product management, sales, customer service and quality assurance remained independent.
From 2012 Hameg products were also sold through the Rohde & Schwarz sales network. Since then, a product logo has been used that clearly shows that it belongs to Rohde & Schwarz.
In June 2014 it became known that all newly developed devices from Hameg Instruments will in future be marketed under the name Rohde & Schwarz . The full integration of Hameg into the measurement technology division of Rohde & Schwarz was announced in mid-2015 and completed in 2016.
Products
Hameg's products included analog oscilloscopes , mixed-signal oscilloscopes (MSO), spectrum analyzers , function generators, HF generators, classic laboratory power supplies , programmable power supplies and modular laboratory measurement components. The company mainly served the lower market segment and is therefore mainly represented in electronics laboratories, in production monitoring, but also at schools and universities. In the latter, Hameg devices were standard equipment in the 1980s and 1990s and were therefore used in training and for scientific work.
In the field of oscilloscopes, Hameg has long been convinced of the advantages of analog technology. In 2004 Hameg wrote when presenting a new series of so-called CombiScopes - devices that have both an analog and a digital operating mode - that "DSOs [...] cannot generally replace analog oscilloscopes". In 2007 Hameg built an oscilloscope with the HM2008 - as can be seen in the picture opposite - which, in addition to an analog and a digital part, also included mixed-signal functions (four digital channels).
At the end of 2008, Hameg presented the first purely digital oscilloscopes with TFT screens at the electronica trade fair in Munich. Like all devices presented afterwards, these devices have mixed-signal functions (8 or 16 digital channels) as well as the ability to decode serial buses such as I2C , SPI , CAN and LIN . In the case of devices with a TFT screen, Hameg thus skipped the generation of classic, pure DSOs without MSO functions. In 2012 Hameg had eleven MSO devices and an analog oscilloscope in its range. In autumn 2012, Hameg announced that it would soon stop producing analog oscilloscopes. Among other things, problems with the procurement of cathode ray tubes are said to have played a role. In February 2013 Hameg presented a new mixed-signal oscilloscope series with a bandwidth of up to 500 MHz at the Embedded World trade fair in Nuremberg; the artificial limitation of the bandwidth can be lifted with these devices by software license.
A component tester is built into many oscilloscopes . By measuring current and voltage (and representing these two quantities in XY mode), the oscilloscope displays the IU characteristic of connected components.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official HAMEG company blog
- ↑ Reinhard Lerch: Electrical measurement technology: analog, digital and computer-aided methods . Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, 6th edition 2012, p. 294, ISBN 978-3-642-22609-0
- ↑ Rohde & Schwarz buys HAMEG
- ↑ Production in future in the Rohde & Schwarz group of plants
- ↑ Rohde & Schwarz data & facts
- ↑ Sariana Kunze: Distribution of Hameg products is being expanded across Europe. In: elektrotechnik.vogel.de. November 21, 2011, accessed January 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Webshop Selector. In: webstore.rohde-schwarz.com. Retrieved January 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Nicole Wörner: Interview: "The Rohde & Schwarz and Hameg brands are growing closer together." In: elektroniknet.de. February 17, 2012, accessed January 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Nicole Wörner: »Nothing changes in the strategic direction«. In: elektroniknet.de. June 2, 2014, accessed January 18, 2015 .
- ^ Nicole Wörner: Rohde & Schwarz integrates Hameg. In: elektroniknet.de. June 22, 2015, accessed October 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Nicole Wörner: Interview: "The Hameg products live on as value instruments". In: elektroniknet.de. September 25, 2015, accessed October 16, 2015 .
- ↑ for example: Jurkonis u. a .: Ultrasound Medical Diagnostics Laboratory for remote Learning in EVICAP Campus in Magued Iskander (Ed.): Innovative Techniques in Instruction Technology, E-learning, E-assessment and Education. Springer Science & Business Media, 2008, pp. 454 ff., ISBN 978-1-4020-8739-4 .
- ↑ Malika Auvray, Christian Duriez: Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications , Springer Verlag 2014, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-44196-1 , ISBN 978-3-662-44196-1 .
- ^ Press archive from October 29, 2004
- ^ Nicole Kothe: Analog meets Digital. In: elektroniknet.de. November 5, 2008, accessed January 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Analog Scopes: An Era Is Coming To An End - Magazine Article Electronics Measure + Test, October 2012.
- ↑ Wolfgang Hascher: Bandwidth range extended to 500 MHz in line with practice. In: elektroniknet.de. February 28, 2013, accessed January 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Hameg 205-3 manual. (No longer available online.) HAMEG, archived from the original on September 10, 2012 ; Retrieved October 25, 2016 .
