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July 2011
TOP 100 innovator
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Outstanding inventive talent at Wachendorff
Wachendorff Automation GmbH & Co. KG from Geisenheim in Hessen is awarded
the Top 100 seal of approval and congratulated by the project's mentor, Lothar Späth.
Geisenheim – Only creative companies with vision and a feeling for new ideas make it into the ranks of the top one hundred most innovative SMEs. Wachendorff Automation was among them in 2011, and was presented with the Top 100 award by Lothar Späth in the Baltic resort of Warnemünde.
Robert Wachendorff is no fan of quick-fix solutions: "They wouldn't do us any good in any case because we develop and manufacture high-quality encoders that are used all over the world. The quality and durability of our innovative products are particularly important." The managing director of this company, which produces electronic sensors and measuring systems, focuses on his customers whenever he makes a decision. Every year, specific actions are implemented and targets are set to promote the development of new products. The senior management team also decides on an annual slogan to encourage innovation. In 2011 it is 'agility'. For the company and its 45 employees, this means focusing on their goals, having short feedback cycles and putting new ideas into practice as quickly as possible. The slogan applies to everybody at the company and it is intended to be both an incentive and a guiding principle.
The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration scrutinised the innovative capabilities of 272 small and medium-sized German firms over a period of several months. The 100 best companies – Wachendorff Automation among them – bear the Top 100 seal of approval for one year. "Creative ideas and fresh thinking are more than a means of increasing revenue for us; we are passionate about our business, and we want to make a difference. We are proud to have been awarded this prize and it proves that working as a team pays off," said Robert Wachendorff.
The 100 SMEs who were awarded the seal of approval in 2011 generated total revenue of €11.2 billion last year. In 2010 alone, 769 German and 1,865 international patents were registered. Forty-eight of the one hundred companies are top in their respective sector in Germany, and 19 are actually global market leaders. In the past three years, 88 of the 100 award-winning firms grew faster than the average for their respective sector – by an average of around 16 per cent.
Further information on Wachendorff Automation, the other 99 prize-winning firms and the Top 100 project can be found at www.top100.de.
 WA1104_Top 100 Innovator 2011__english.doc (162 Byte)
WA1104_Top 100 innovation_Wachendorff Automation_30602011_English.pdf (32 KB)
WA1104_Top100_Lothar Spaeth und Robert Wachendorff.jpg (886 KB)
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February 2011
Creative destruction with EnDra
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EnDra® Multiturn Technology has the potential to unleash creative destruction.
It can – and “will” in Wachendorff’s opinion – fundamentally change the market.
Some of the considerations behind this conviction are:
1.) In Germany alone, this technology is expected to eliminate the need for over 250,000 batteries and gears a year. This also offers major benefits in terms of the environment.
2.) Within around 2 to 3 years – once the market is adequately aware of the new technology – the older designs with gears and batteries will have been phased out completely.
3.) Due to its low costs for materials and in production, all new areas of application can be developed.
4.) Further, thanks to the decline of the older technologies with gears or batteries (e.g. temperature sensitivity, space requirements, maintenance requirements, environmental impact and waste disposal requirements), new fields are constantly being developed, such as in the wind energy, medical technology, hoisting technology, mobile work machines and factory/machine construction sectors.
5.) Gear manufacturers in the multiturn encoder segment will certainly suffer a drop in sales.
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February 2009
Still as rugged as ever ... and now with a 5 year warranty
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The Wachendorff Automation GmbH & Co. KG company, based in Geisenheim in the German Rheingau, is now offering its WDG encoders and systems with a 5 year warranty. The manufacturer of incremental and absolute encoders, length measuring and shaft copying systems sees this action as a logical extension to the positive feedback from numerous convinced users.
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October 2008
Wachendorff goes Marathon
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Reaching goals. Together.
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Under the motto "Reaching goals. Together." 24 employees from the Wachendorff Group - from apprentices right up to the Managing Director - lined up on the 26th October 2008 to start the Frankfurt Marathon.
The runners - men and women - were divided into groups of 4, who then ran the 42.2 km marathon distance as relay teams, tackling different sector lengths, depending on their performance capabilities (Runner 1 = 12 km, Runner 2 = 6 km, Runner 3 = 10 km, Runner 4 = 14.2 km)...
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May 2008
WDG40A ensures that the cookies are done to a turn
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If you are ever visiting the harbour area in San Francisco (on the west coast of the USA), then you should definitely hunt out the world-famous BOUDIN SOURDOUGH Bakery and Café at the Wharf, which has been making a wide variety of very interesting, delicious bread since 1849.
This bakery is a real experience, and not just for its tasty offerings. Anyone, who has an interest in the technical side of things, also gets his money’s worth. There is a museum, which vividly brings to life how bread was made in earlier times. The subsequent tour through the latest ultra-modern production facilities is highly impressive. The visiting public look on amazed, as the most extraordinary bread and cookie shapes take form in front of their eyes: crabs, hares, lobsters, hearts, etc.
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