SEW Eurodrive

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SEW-Eurodrive GmbH & Co KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding June 13, 1931
Seat Bruchsal , Germany
Number of employees 17,000
sales 3.2 billion euros
Branch Drive automation
Website www.sew-eurodrive.de
As of June 2019

The SEW Euro Drive GmbH & Co KG is a German manufacturer of drive technology , headquartered in Bruchsal ( Baden-Württemberg ). The company is wholly owned by BV Beteiligungs GmbH & Co KG , which achieved sales of 3.2 billion euros with around 17,000 employees in the 2018/19 financial year.

SEW-Eurodrive produces gear units , motors , geared motors and converter technology in various sizes. The company manufactures drives in the motor power range from 0.09 kW to over 225 kW as well as industrial gear units with drive torques of up to several million Nm. SEW-Eurodrive offers products for the "Lean Smart Factory" area, including mobile assembly or logistics assistants and digital factory planning.

History and background

SEW-Eurodrive has registered a large number of patents in its almost 90-year history. For the future, the company, which is now in the third generation of the Blickle family, is committed to developing into a company that combines the concepts of Industry 4.0 with the principles of lean management. With modular and reconfigurable factories, SEW Eurodrive wants to be able to adapt products for customers more in the future.

Since 2016, SEW-Eurodrive has been operating a shop window factory in its production and logistics plant at the Graben-Neudorf location, in which mobile logistics assistants are in use and digitized work islands open up new possibilities in production.

Beginnings under Ernst Blickle

At the beginning of the company's history is the designer Albert Obermoser. His counter motor, designed in 1928, revolutionized drive technology. The trained banker Christian Pähr recognizes the potential of this type of drive and acquires the rights to the countershaft motor from the bankruptcy estate of Obermoser AG. Despite the economically and politically turbulent times, he founded the Süddeutsche-Elektromotoren-Werke in Bruchsal in 1931, since 1971 SEW for short. After Christian Pähr's death in 1935, his widow Kunigunde Pähr continued the business, supported by his daughter Edeltraut Pähr. In 1945 Ernst Wilhelm Blickle, now Pährs son-in-law, took over the management.

In 1948 Ernst Blickle laid the foundation stone for a 10,000 m² factory in Graben, ten kilometers away. With a focus on employees and young talent, Ernst Blickle will also have social rooms for the workforce and training workshops built there at a later date.

In 1965, SEW-Eurodrive presented an advanced modular system for gear motors . A final product that is adapted to specific customer requirements can be quickly and precisely realized from relatively few basic building blocks . The concept allows production and assembly to be separated from one another. While the individual parts are produced in large numbers centrally in a few plants, assembly takes place as close as possible to the customer. This enabled greater customization with shorter delivery times at the same time.

After Ernst Blickle's death in 1987, his sons Rainer Blickle and Jürgen Blickle take over the management of SEW-Eurodrive.

International expansion

1960 SEW Euro Drive opened its first foreign manufacturing plant in Alsace Haguenau . From 1968 to 1969 the company expanded with assembly plants to Sweden, Italy and England. Further locations followed in 1974 in Canada, 1975 in the USA and 1978 in Brazil. In the 1980s, branches in Melbourne (Australia) and Johannesburg (South Africa) are added. In the 1990s, the company opened additional locations : in 1993 in Russia, 1994 in Japan and Singapore and 1997 in India.

There are a total of 15 manufacturing plants, 77 Drive Technology Centers, 7 sales companies and 37 partners all over the world.

Key figures

The companies of BV Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG have 16 production and 79 assembly plants worldwide, so-called Drive Technology Centers. 23 percent of the employees are engineers and IT specialists.

Product portfolio

Research project efeuCampus

SEW is a partner of the future project for urban and autonomous goods logistics funded by the European Union and the state of Baden-Württemberg , efeuCampus in Bruchsal. SEW takes on the research and development of the autonomous delivery vehicles and the technical infrastructure. SEW is responsible for induction charging systems , for the electrified vehicles, the construction of a 5G infrastructure for communication and the delivery of parcels and valuable materials from and to the residents of the test area. The aim of the project is to transfer innovative solutions from the modern factory to urban logistics .

Foundations

SEW Eurodrive Foundation

On November 30, 1989 Edeltraud Blickle set up the SEW-Eurodrive-Foundation in memory of Ernst Wilhelm Blickle. The aim of the foundation is to promote the development, deepening and further development of scientific knowledge in technology (basic research and applied research) and economy (management, leadership, corporate policy).

Ernst Blickle Prize

The Ernst Blickle Prize, endowed with 100,000 euros, has been awarded annually since 1991 and every two years since 2000. With the help of a selection committee, the foundation's board of directors selects the winner in accordance with the foundation's statutes. The previous winners are:

  • 1991 Manfred Depenbrock (†), Bochum
  • 1992 Hans Winter (†), Munich
  • 1993 Wolfgang Finke, Wachtberg-Ließem
  • 1994 loan W. Dudley (†), San Diego (USA)
  • 1995 Ferenc Anistis, Haidershofen (Austria)
  • 1996 Manfred Rose, Heidelberg
  • 1997 Manfred Weck, Aachen
  • 1998 Jörg Hugel Zurich (Switzerland)
  • 1999 Georges Henriot, Gif-sur Yvette (France)
  • 2000 Richard van Basshuysen, Bad Wimpfen
  • 2002 Joachim Milberg, Munich
  • 2004 Fred C. Lee, USA
  • 2006 Bernd-Robert Höhn, Munich
  • 2008 Gerd Hirzinger, Oberpfaffenhofen
  • 2010 Michael Rogowski, Stuttgart
  • 2012 Martin Kannegiesser, Posen (Poland)
  • 2014 Leo Lorenz
  • 2016 Martin A. Kapp
  • 2018 Cathrina Claas-Mühlhäuser

Diploma award

The diploma prize has been awarded annually since 2002 to up to ten diploma students each from the fields of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and economics, who are characterized by high performance in the form of good work in a reasonable amount of time.

Edeltraudt Blickle Foundation

On September 24, 1992, Rainer Blickle founded the Edeltraudt Blickle Foundation. The foundation is dedicated exclusively to charitable purposes. Medical research facilities, hospitals and other nursing institutions as well as people who are in need in the social and medical sense are funded from the foundation's assets.

literature

  • Walter Hochreiter: The Red Book. The company history of SEW-Eurodrive 1931–2006 . Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2006, ISBN 978-3-89735-460-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Consolidated financial statements of BV Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG as of February 28, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. Herrenknecht drills supply tunnels with industrial gear units from SEW-Eurodrive. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  3. a b company portrait . SEW-Eurodrive, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
  4. a b SEW invests in Bruchsal and Graben-Neudorf. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  5. The men in motion. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  6. Networked factory - Inge, Lisa and the lights. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  7. Mr. Soder's feeling for Industry 4.0. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  8. Humber and SEW-EURODRIVE team up to bring unique technology to North America. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  9. How Protolabs and SEW Eurodrive earn money digitally. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  10. Industry 4.0 becomes tangible through real solutions. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  11. Meet the cobots: humans and robots together on the factory floor. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  12. Experience Industry 4.0 in the shop window factory. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  13. ke NEXT visits the shop window factory 4.0. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  14. a b SEW-Eurodrive: Company history 1931 to today | SEW Eurodrive. Retrieved August 16, 2018 .
  15. Inventor of the motor-gear unit. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  16. After the hospital I got back to work. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  17. The prosperity grew - the workers were satisfied. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  18. ^ Walter Hochreiter :: The Red Book. The company history of SEW-Eurodrive 1931–2006. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2006, ISBN 978-3-89735-460-9 , p. 11-69 .
  19. SEW locations. SEW Eurodrive GmbH, accessed on March 15, 2019 .
  20. SEW-Eurodrive: Location Germany | SEW Eurodrive. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
  21. Fully automatic parcel delivery service being tested , Südwestrundfunk (SWR), July 5, 2019
  22. SEW Eurodrive Foundation. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
  23. Mechatronics pioneer receives the Ernst Blickle Research Award 2008. Accessed on February 27, 2019 .
  24. The Edeltraut-Blickle-Foundation. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .