Ott-Jakob clamping technology
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1873 |
| Seat | Lengenwang, Germany |
| management | Frank Jakob |
| Number of employees | 245 |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | https://www.ott-jakob.de/ |
| Status: 2018 | |
The Ott-Jakob clamping technology GmbH (proper spelling: OTT-JAKOB) operates in the field of machine tool technology. The company produces tool clamping systems for machine tools . The company is located in Lengenwang in the Ostallgäu district .
history
After training as a precision mechanic and studying at the polytechnic in Munich under Professor Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind , Albert Ott (1847–1895) from Nesselwang worked as a precision mechanic at Ertel & Sohn in Munich. There he got to know, among other things, the Woltman wing for determining the flow of water. In 1873 he founded the Mathematical-Mechanical Institute A. Ott in Jägerstrasse in Kempten . From 1874 to 1880 the company traded under the name “Ott & Coradi” after his former colleague and later brother-in-law had joined the company. In the early years, the company particularly benefited from Ott's friendship with his former professor von Bauernfeind , who had newly designed instruments manufactured by Ott himself and discussed them in specialist and textbooks. Quality assurance was ensured through tests at universities. The company was represented at the World Exhibition in Melbourne in 1880. In 1881 Ott acquired the patent for the construction of electric hydrometric wings from Professor Andreas Harlacher from Switzerland. He received an award at the trade fair in Braunschweig for the further development of the Ott'schen wing and the integration of automated recording processes. At the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893, Ott's instruments were awarded a gold medal. Its self-registering levels were subsequently used, for example, in the shipping and water management offices.
Albert Ott died in 1895 and his younger brother Max Otto managed the company until his death in 1898. He was followed by the former employee Adolf Steis, who had been on the management board again since 1895. He invested in the company, which was owned by Albert Otts widow Anna and the two sons Hermann and Ludwig. On April 1, 1907, Anna Ott withdrew from the family business and handed it over to her sons, who ran the company together with Adolf Steis. Hermann took over the production management and Ludwig the development department. Adolf Steis used his good contacts to international business and research institutions and generated a large number of the orders. During the First World War , production was largely converted to a war economy. In 1919 Adolf Steis withdrew from active business and the company was again a purely family business under the management of the brothers Hermann and Ludwig Ott. As a legacy, Steis donated a pension fund based on the Carl Zeiss model. With the reconstruction in the 1920s, Ott was invested again and expanded. The first German measuring channel was built privately for the calibration hydrometric wing. The economic crisis of 1929 led to a wave of layoffs at Ott. Of the 130 employees, only 21 apprentices, their foremen and a caretaker remained until 1932. At around the same time, Sigmund Ott took over management from his father Ludwig Ott.
When the NSDAP came to power, orders from the armaments sector increased and the workforce rose to 700 between 1938 and 1944. In 1942, Sigmund Ott, Ludwig Ott's son, joined the company as a personally liable partner. After the end of the war, the plants were able to resume operations within a few weeks without trustee management. In the course of 1946 Ludwig and Sigmund Ott died and the engineer A. Landauer joined the company. In the same year, new developments such as high-performance precision machines for the textile industry were brought onto the market. This was followed by the development of the Conzen-Ott travel time calculator for the Deutsche Bundesbahn, which went into series production in 1952 and was in use until the 1980s, as well as a fundamental modernization of all known Ott instruments. At the end of 1958, Hermann Ott left the management and handed over his position to his brother-in-law Hans Neubeck. By this time the factory had grown to six production sites. 1964 Hermann Ott died in May and Hans Neubeck in September. Production management, development department and commercial management were then transferred to Wilhelm Vahs and Peter Reill. In the following years, the Ott'schen devices were continuously developed and expanded to include computerized data acquisition and data analysis.
In the 1970s, competitive pressure from abroad increased. To compensate for this, the company also began manufacturing tool changers and tool clamping systems. On the 100th anniversary of the company in October 1973, exactly 300 people were employed at Ott. At around that time, the engineer Helmut Heel joined the company. In October 1979 he took over Ott Messtechnik GmbH & Co. KG from Margret Ott and her son Peter and changed the name to Heel-Messtechnik GmbH. The production area of Ott Maschinentechnik GmbH was relocated to Lengenwang. In 1993, Jakob GmbH took over Ott Maschinentechnik and changed its name to Ott-Jakob Spanntechnik GmbH. Heinrich Baur bought Heel Messtechnik in the same year and is now Ott Hydromet .
Historical meaning
With its work in the field of integration systems, A. Ott has helped shape the development of analog computing technology. The differential equation machine IPM-Ott was created in collaboration with Alwin Walther and Wilfried de Beauclair . Components of this are in the holdings of the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
The Conzen-Ott travel time calculator , which went into series production in 1952, was used by the German Federal Railroad to calculate the travel times of rail vehicles until the advent of computer-aided processes .
Products
The company develops and produces clamping systems for the automated and manual clamping of tools in processing machines.
See also
Web links
literature
- Ott Messtechnik (Hrsg.): A journey through technology and time . Kempten i. General, 1998.
- Path 2: Tell the story of the foundation - Ott Hydromet Group: "140 years of Ott". In: Wolfgang Lanzenberger ; Michael Müller : Making corporate films. Business movies in the digital age. Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2017, pp. 118–120. ISBN 978-3-744-50904-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Yvonne Hettich: From the Allgäu to the wide world. In: Kreisbote. June 13, 2016, accessed January 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Herbert Bruderer: Milestones in computer technology: To the history of mathematics and computer science . 1st edition. 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-037547-3 , pp. 178 - 190, here p. 180 .
- ↑ Ulf Hashagen, Hans Dieter Hellige (ed.): Computing machines in change: Mathematics, technology, society. Festschrift for Hartmut Petzold on his 65th birthday . 2011, p. 33 - 110, here p. 35 .
- ^ Friedrich L. Bauer: Historical Notes on Computer Science . 2009, p. 158 .
- ^ Website of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Retrieved January 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Ott Messtechnik (Ed.): A journey through technology and time . 1998.
- ↑ Jörn Pachl: System technology of rail traffic: plan, control and secure rail operations . 9th edition. S. 33 . limited preview in Google Book search