Sigmatek

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Sigmatek GmbH & Co KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1988
Seat Lamprechtshausen near Salzburg , Austria
management
  • Andreas Melkus
  • Theodor Kusejko
  • Marianne Kusejko
  • Alexander Melkus
Number of employees > 500 (2016)
sales EUR 62.5 million (2016)
Branch Automation technology
Website www.sigmatek-automation.com

The Sigmatek GmbH & Co KG (proper spelling SIGMATEK ) is a family-run Austrian company with headquarters in Lamprechtshausen in Salzburg , the international operations in the automation technology operates.

history

The company was founded in 1988 and presented its own PLC , MODAS , with the help of which the first projects in the field of robot control were implemented. Three years later, the company entered the glass industry and injection molding technology . From 1993 Sigmatek used the CAN bus to communicate with its PLC system and received SigmaControl as its first sales partner in the Netherlands. In 1994, six years after the company was founded, the company moved to the new company building for reasons of space.

In 1996, the DIAS control system allowed for the first time a decentralized arrangement of PLC modules and the transmission of up to 2.5 million I / O signals per second. In 2000, the in-house developed LASAL was presented. In the following year, Sigmatek expanded the main plant in Lamprechtshausen to include the Innovation Center .

In 2002 the further development of the control system was presented with C-DIAS , communication takes place with up to 30 million I / Os per second. In 2006 VARAN was presented, for whose development Sigmatek received the Salzburg Economy Innovation Prize. Two years later the company took over the development department of Sdrive and added another building to the factory premises in Lamprechtshausen.

In 2012 the company presented the modular S-DIAS system at the SPS IPC Drives in Nuremberg. In 2015, the DIAS-Drive 1000 followed, a compact drive for controlling up to 6 servo axes . In 2018, another expansion of the company headquarters in Lamprechtshausen was completed.

Companies

Sigmatek offers both total solutions and modular individual components for machine and system builders. Particular attention is paid to scalability and expandability. With LASAL, Sigmatek was the first company in the automation industry to present software for object-oriented programming and is therefore considered a pioneer in this field. In early 2006 VARAN presented a hard real-time capable Ethernet - bus system , which was specially developed for use in industrial automation.

The development and production site in Lamprechtshausen was expanded further over the years. With around 420 employees, the majority of the 500 employees worldwide work at the headquarters. The company has been family-owned since it was founded in 1988 by Andreas Melkus, Theodor Kusejko and Marianne Kusejko. Alexander Melkus has been part of the management team since May 2017.

Locations

Three years after the company was founded, SIGMATEK GmbH Germany was founded in 1991, the first branch outside of Austria. The first location outside of Europe was created in 2001 in Ohio, USA. Subsequently, the SIGMATEK Ningbo Office was established in China in 2007, before a branch was opened in Switzerland a year later. In the same year the development department was taken over by Sdrive. Since 2012 there has been a second location in Austria with the development office in Vienna. A subsidiary in Great Britain followed in 2013, and one in Korea in 2016.

Today Sigmatek has 8 locations and 15 sales partners worldwide.

Products

Sigmatek GmbH & Co. KG covers a wide area in automation technology. Among other things, modular components are manufactured and sold in the following areas:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Salzburger Nachrichten | Lamprechtshausen: Sigmatek is investing heavily and creating new jobs from May 22, 2017; accessed on May 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ KEM construction | From bowling alley to global player on August 1, 2001; accessed on May 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ automation | Innovation award of the Salzburg economy , accessed on May 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ SPS Magazine | Compact drive for multi-axis applications from October 29, 2014; accessed on May 28, 2018.
  5. ↑ Economic period | The Sigmatek company headquarters in Lamprechtshausen will be expanded from May 22, 2017; accessed on May 28, 2018.
  6. ↑ electrical engineering AUTOMATION | Consistent machine concept for small embroidery machines; Object-oriented programming with the all-in-one tool LASAL from October 14, 2011; accessed on May 16, 2018.
  7. ↑ PLC magazine | Naturally object-oriented SPS magazine issue 10/2011 p. 97ff; accessed on June 7, 2018. The PDF of the original article is hosted on Sigmatek's website.
  8. ↑ SPS Magazine | Varan - new Ethernet variant; Sigmatek has developed its own Industrial Ethernet version , edition 7/2006, published on June 22, 2006; accessed on May 16, 2018.
  9. ↑ The Industrial Ethernet Book | Realtime Ethernet: VARAN two years on , Issue 44/36 [English]; accessed on May 16, 2018.
  10. ↑ Economic Period | Sigmatek: Next generation strengthens management from May 5, 2017; accessed on May 18, 2018.
  11. ↑ electrical engineering AUTOMATION | Development department of Sdrive acquired on November 28, 2007; accessed on May 16, 2018.