Vitronic

VITRONIC
legal form	GmbH
founding	1984
Seat	Wiesbaden , Germany
management	Norbert Stein
Number of employees	1000 (as of 2018)
sales	172 million EUR (Vitronic Group) (financial year 2017)
Branch	Industrial image processing
Website	www.vitronic.de

The Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH is a manufacturer of image processing systems based in Wiesbaden . The system solutions are currently used primarily in the traffic engineering, logistics, photovoltaics, automotive, medicine & pharmaceuticals, packaging and body scanning sectors. Vitronic is known as the so-called hidden champion of its industry.

Vitronic is known to the public mainly for the delivery of the control bridges for the German truck toll . The bridges are always used as a symbol of the toll system, as they are the part of the toll system that most people are familiar with. This product led u. a. for the CCCeBIT -Anti-Award 2004 by the Chaos Computer Club .

See also: Toll Collect

Another line of business in the field of traffic engineering is the manufacture and sale of devices for official speed measurements called PoliScan speed and enforcement trailers . In logistics, the image processing systems are used when reading z. B. of address data on parcels in DHL or UPS distribution centers . An application example for use in the field of industrial automation is the testing of weld seams in Daimler's automobile production .

history

Vitronic was founded by Norbert Stein in 1984. Since 2007, the headquarters and production are located in Wiesbaden. The company had around 700 employees in Germany and its worldwide branches until 2006 . Vitronic has been represented on four continents since the end of 2010.

On March 8, 2018, the company announced via its Twitter account that Vitronic now employs 1,000 people worldwide.

Corporate structure

Vitronic is represented by subsidiaries, sales offices or partners in:

• America:
  • USA : Louisville ( KY ), Atlanta ( GA ), Germantown ( MD ), Philadelphia ( PA )
  • Brazil : Paraná
  • Chile : Santiago

• Asia:
  • China : Shanghai , Hangzhou
  • Japan : Yokohama
  • Malaysia : Penang
  • Oman
  • Qatar : Doha
  • Singapore
  • South Korea : Seoul
  • Taiwan : Zhubei
  • Thailand : Bangkok
  • Turkey : Ankara
  • United Arab Emirates : Dubai , Abu Dhabi

• Australia:
  • Melbourne

• Europe:
  • Germany: Wiesbaden (headquarters), Heilbronn , Kaiserslautern , Niedernhausen , Potsdam
  • Estonia : Tallinn
  • France : Lyon
  • Great Britain : Birmingham
  • Lithuania : Vilnius
  • Austria : Vienna
  • Portugal : Lisbon
  • Slovenia : Ljubljana
  • Spain : Barcelona

Products

• Systems for 2D and 3D quality inspection
• Systems for surface and dimensional inspection
• Systems for text recognition and identification of barcodes and 2D codes
• Systems for laser-based control of speed and red light violations .
• Toll control systems
• Systems for contactless 3D recording of human body dimensions

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} [1]
2. ↑ Hermann Simon : Hidden Champions of the 21st Century. The success strategies of unknown world market leaders. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38380-4 . P. 197

Web links

• Official website
• Toll Collect - A Public Private Partnership (PPP) disaster on heise.de
• Weld seam sensor testing with Vitronic device
• Manufacturer of speed camera systems - pictures for a slower world - Vitronic from Wiesbaden has developed the toll system and sensors for industry. The company is best known for its speed camera columns. by Morten Freidel on faz.net on April 3, 2015
• https://www.vitronic.de/unternehmen/ueber-uns/das-unternehmen.html