ECKELMANN AG
ECKELMANN AG is the parent company of ECKELMANN GROUP, ECKELMANN AG in Wiesbaden and Ferrocontrol Steuerungssysteme GmbH & Co. KG in Heford as well as TEB in Flörsheim, Germany. The group earned total revenue in 2007 with 365 employees: 55 million EUR.
Stable and flexible partner
ECKELMANN was founded in 1977. It is one of the well-founded, medium-sized companies and is able to guarantee its clients reliable performance of contracts in the long term. Over half of the 365 employees are highly qualified engineers from the sectors of electrical engineering, machine construction, mechanical engineering and IT.
Despite its stable size, ECKELMANN AG is still a flexible company. Every client has a fixed support person who, in their function as responsible project manager, remains the contact for all matters relating to specifications, implementation, commissioning and servicing of an application. This proximity to the customer guarantees fast performance of contracts, keeping the requirements of the particular application in mind.
ECKELMANN AG is a supplier of controllers for manufacturers and owners of machines and systems. The company offers technology partnership on equal terms to its customers: the customers benefit from short decision-making processes and direct access to the R&D departments. Solutions tailored to the technical and economical requirements are based on the combination of standard components and customization and create a lasting competitive edge of the customer’s machines and systems. Complete solutions for CNC, PLC and motion control tasks as well as completely customized controller solutions are offered in particular to the mechanical engineering industry.
Full-Service-Automation-Partner
ECKELMANN AG is an economically stable and, at one and the same time,
flexible, medium-sized control and automation partner. With their experience
ranging over a whole number of industries and with their sure sense for technical
trends, the ECKELMANN engineers develop powerful, profitable solutions for clients
in the sectors of mechanical engineering, machine construction and plant construction.
Automation - a factor for success
Competitiveness in the sectors of mechanical engineering, machine construction and plant construction is crucially dependent on opting for the right automation solution:
- The flexibility and ability of an automation concept to cope with new trends determine the profitability of the investment.
- Ergonomics in operation guarantee acceptance by the user. The very rapid developments in the electronics and software industry constantly create new capabilities for automating machines and systems. This provides major opportunities for innovative machine and plant manufacturers.
Optimized time to market thanks to partnership
Being able to utilize these opportunities quickly for new developments requires up-to-date knowhow and a talent for detecting what direction technical trends are taking, based on broad experience. For most machine and plant manufacturers and operators, it is uneconomical to build up and cultivate this competence themselves.
They thus rely on a specialized company such as ECKELMANN AG as their control and automation partner.
Innovative automation solutions
Application-optimized control systems allow specific technical, ergonomic and economic requirements to be met. ECKELMANN develops application-optimized controls on the basis of its tried-and-tested module library and supplies just in time from one-off items through to large-scale series.
Where standard technology does not suffice
The effectiveness of standard controls is subject to narrow boundaries. The hardware and software of controls must be optimized for applications subject to special technical requirements, specific interfaces or operating aspects and, not least, demands for low series per-unit costs.
Modern automation systems cover solutions from the sensor and actuator through the control to the master-control system and complete integration of these in operational
data processing. These investments are particularly economical when supplied from one single source. As a responsible system integrator, ECKELMANN ensures
implementation right down the line.
Protection of investments by system integration
The major economic success achieved with automation of systems allows existing and new software and hardware components to be integrated:
- The plant constructor benefits from the competence of an integration partner who creates a cost-optimized, homogenous system solution on the basis of machine and process descriptions, using existing operating resources and established industrial standards.
- The plant operator benefits from the efficiency and power of state-of-the-art technology with simultaneous protection of existing investments. The selection of open architectures, standardized interfaces and popular technologies guarantee him expansibility and independence in the long term.
System integration on the basis of engineering know-how
In order to avoid costly interfaces, the integration solutions are adapted fully to the business processes and production workflow on customer premises. This demands universality from the field level through to the company management level.
This necessitates merging knowledge and practical experience from a wide variety of individual trades to form an overall solution - a task for which engineers of various disciplines need to cooperate optimally.
ECKELMANN AG focuses the required experience in project-oriented engineering teams. This allows integration projects to be handled optimally.
Automation Solutions for Machines and Installations
ECKELMANN AG develops and delivers turnkey automation for machines and installations as the manufacturer's supplier or as a contractor of the end user. Automation systems from ECKELMANN are consistently based on the concept of system integration, which leads to maximum customer benefit in terms of the overall solution. Industrial standard products from the market are used, and are chosen in accordance with the task in hand.
Criteria for the optimum choice of components are functions, costs, ergonomics, equipment regulations, openness for future expansions, operating reliability, an ability to communicate and easy maintenance. ECKELMANN is not committed to one specific manufacturer.
As a full-service automation partner, ECKELMANN AG relieves its clients' workload
by responsibly handling complete projects. This allows them to concentrate on their
core competencies, reduces their management effort and minimizes the risk of
compatibility problems between components of different manufacturers. The great
performance depth of ECKELMANN AG ensures that all gaps necessarily left open by
standard solutions can be bridged by customer-specific development and production.
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