WITTENSTEIN AG - Company Profile WITTENSTEIN AG, D-97999 Igersheim Date: November 2005
WITTENSTEIN AG The products built by the high-tech company WITTENSTEIN AG in Igersheim, Germany, are used wherever systems and parts have to be driven and controlled with the utmost precision. More than 800 men and women throughout the world develop, produce and market high-precision planetary gears, complete electromechanical drive systems and AC servo systems and servo motors. They are used e.g. in robotic systems, machine tools, the packagin industry, materials handling and process engineering, Formula 1 racing, paper and printing presses, medical technology, elevators without power room and in the aerospace and simulation industry. Technological competence and innovative strength are the two key factors guaranteeing the success of WITTENSTEIN AG. The company’s central know-how and core competence are successively developed further with its fundamental orientation towards intelligent, mechatronic drive systems and the merger of micro and macro technologies. Trends are set and also promoted at a very early stage in development, production and sale of components. WITTENSTEIN products developed within the last five years account for 85 percent of the total turnover. Every tenth Euro is invested in research and development and 12 percent of the workforce is in this area. Some examples, where microtechnology is used: alpheno IQ , the world’s first sensor gear reducer that feels and acts, or fitbone , an integrated and miniaturized bone reproduction and leg lengthening system.
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