ICS International

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ICS International GmbH
Identcode Systems

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legal form GmbH
founding 1986
Seat Kelsterbach , Hessen , Germany
management
  • Hans-Jörg Tittlbach (CEO)
  • Thomas Brenneis (CFO)
Number of employees 83 (2014)
Branch Information technology
Website www.ics-group.eu

ICS Codablock for blood bag identification (sample)

The ICS International GmbH Ident-coding systems ( ICS ) based in Kelsterbach is a German provider of IT and marking solutions and managed services to optimize business processes . ICS solutions are used wherever goods are to be moved, information is to be recorded digitally and data is to be automatically processed. This includes, for example, the functional areas of production, warehouse, quality assurance and field service.

history

The company was founded in 1986 as ICS Identcode Systeme Deutschland GmbH in Neu-Anspach . From 1990 to 2017 ICS had the legal form of a stock corporation under the name ICS International AG Identcode-Systeme.

Initially, ICS sold label printers , especially as a German dealer for Zebra Technologies, a leading manufacturer of thermal transfer printing systems . As a result, the company opened up new market segments with Auto-ID systems and its own software programming.

From 1989, in collaboration with Harald Oehlmann, ICS developed Codablock, one of the first 2D codes ever, which was recognized worldwide in specialist circles and used internationally. It is the first 2D code innovation from Germany to receive this award. The ICS Code was the only German development of a batch code that was established at home and abroad. The Codablock also played an important pioneering role in the triumphant advance of 2D codes, because only it could be read reliably with the slightest modification of the laser scanners used at the time.

In 1996 ICS launched its own warehouse management software on the market. In addition to intralogistics applications, the company has also been concentrating on systems for digital order processing in the field since 2007. Against the background of increasingly complex IT structures, services also represent a growing focus of activity.

Furthermore, not least by industry 4.0 Internet of -Things technologies increasingly important. New IT solutions are necessary to intelligently network devices and machines. Since 2016, ICS has been developing software for humanoid robots such as Pepper , who supports support and advisory functions in retail and events.

According to the trade press, various processes of corporate value creation in different industries are served with automation solutions from ICS.

Corporate structure

ICS International is currently divided into the IT logistics solutions and trade, labeling systems, service and managed services divisions.

In addition to the company headquarters in Kelsterbach, the company has a label production facility in Gummersbach with its subsidiary Profi Label GmbH & Co. KG and a software development company specializing in field service processes in Heilbronn with ABM-SOFT Hard + Software GmbH . Furthermore, a service desk and a repair center are operated with the subsidiaries ServIT Remote Solutions GmbH in Berlin and ISR International Services & Repair GmbH in Kelsterbach.

Products

The current portfolio includes (extract):

literature

  • Raj, Raj Bhasker: Bar Codes: Technology and Implementation . Tata McGraw-Hill Pub., New Delhi 2001, ISBN 0074638491 , pp. 85 ff.
  • Bernhard Lenk: manual of automatic identification . Vol. 2. Monika Lenk Fachbuchverlag, Kirchheim unter Teck 2002, ISBN 3935551010 , pp. 15-21 and pp. 28 ff.
  • Bernd Waßmann: Track and trace for cosmetics: the lipstick leaves traces . In: handling online. Weka Business Medien, October 15, 2013. Accessed October 18, 2013.
  • Thomas Wöhrle: Optimized beverage logistics - voice-controlled industry solution in use . In: Beverage specialist wholesalers, edition 8/2013 v. August 20, 2013, Verlag W. Sachon, Mindelheim, ISSN  0724-6153 , pp. 36-38.
  • Nicole de Jong: One device for different networks . In: KEP aktuell (supplement trans aktuell), issue 3/2012 v. September 7, 2012, ETM Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISSN  0947-7268 , p. 6.
  • Katharina Juschkat: Artificial Intelligence: Small Robot on the Red Carpet . In: Konstruktionspraxis online. Vogel Business Media, January 26, 2017. Accessed January 26, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Gazette , ICS International annual financial statements as of September 30, 2014, data retrieved on May 12, 2016. Number of employees without subsidiaries.
  2. ↑ Stacked codes, historically early 2D code developments that found their way onto the market at the end of the eighties / beginning of the nineties of the last century, arrange linear barcodes in multiple lines to form a code block that belongs together. In addition to the Codablock, the following batch codes have established themselves internationally: Code 49, PDF 417 and Code 16K. These encodings were developed overseas. For clarification of the terms stack code, codablock, 2D code as well as the historical and practical meaning of the ICS code see:
    Bernhard Lenk: Manual of automatic identification . Vol. 2. Monika Lenk Fachbuchverlag, Kirchheim unter Teck 2002, ISBN 3935551010 , p. 28 ff.
    Raj, Raj Bhasker: Bar Codes: Technology and Implementation . Tata McGraw-Hill Pub., New Delhi 2001, ISBN 0074638491 , pp. 85 ff.
  3. ↑ For the far-reaching, cross-industry market penetration were mainly responsible: 1) semi-finished and finished products have become increasingly smaller. 2) At the same time, more and more information had to be encrypted with codes on the limited label areas available in order to ensure automated identification and traceability across the value chain. 3) The "more" information also brought with it the need for increased data security / error correction within the coding. 4) The linear barcode, which was already established at the time, could often no longer meet the practical requirements resulting from the points mentioned above. See:
    Bernhard Lenk: Manual of automatic identification . Vol. 2. Monika Lenk Fachbuchverlag, Kirchheim unter Teck 2002, ISBN 3935551010 , pp. 15-21.
  4. ↑ Bernhard Lenk: Manual of the automatic identification . Vol. 2. Monika Lenk Fachbuchverlag, Kirchheim unter Teck 2002, ISBN 3935551010 , p. 45.
    Raj, Raj Bhasker: Bar Codes: Technology and Implementation . Tata McGraw-Hill Pub., New Delhi 2001, ISBN 0074638491 , pp. 90-100.
    (For the other batch codes, the technical adjustment effort on the laser scanner was higher and the camera systems, which identify all types of 2D codes, had not yet conquered the practice for developmental and economic reasons.)
  5. ↑ See representative: Thomas Wöhrle: Optimized beverage logistics - voice-controlled industry solution in use . In: Beverage specialist wholesalers, edition 8/2013 v. August 20, 2013, Verlag W. Sachon, Mindelheim 2013, ISSN  0724-6153 , pp. 36-38. (Also online: PDF document; 1.2 MB . Accessed October 31, 2013.)
    Bernd Waßmann: Track-and-trace for cosmetics: lipstick leaves its mark . In: handling online. Weka Business Medien, October 15, 2013. Accessed October 18, 2013.
    Nicole de Jong: One device for different networks . In: KEP aktuell (supplement trans aktuell), issue 3/2012 v. September 7, 2012, ETM Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISSN  0947-7268 , p. 6. (Also online: PDF document; 1.3 MB  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically identified as defective Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . Accessed on October 31, 2013.). Katharina Juschkat: Artificial Intelligence: Small Robot on the Red Carpet . In: Konstruktionspraxis online. Vogel Business Media, January 26, 2017. Accessed January 26, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ics-ident.de  
  6. ↑ Federal Gazette , ICS International annual financial statements as of September 30, 2014, accessed on May 12, 2016.