Customer Success Stories

Engelhard Arzneimittel

Founded in 1872, Engelhard employs over 500 people who research, develop, and manufacture high-quality products for respiratory and skin diseases, attention disorders, digestive problems, and other conditions. As one of the leading brand manufacturers in the OTC sector, the company primarily sells over-the-counter medications for self-medication that are available exclusively in pharmacies.

PSZ electronic GmbH

Whether forklifts in the logistics industry, agricultural machines, or construction machines: when it comes to cable assembly, electromechanical assemblies, or system components, virtually every major global manufacturer relies on the products and expertise of PSZ electronic GmbH. Leading manufacturers in medical technology, heating and air conditioning technology, as well as mechanical and plant engineering also rely on the products of the company from Vohenstrauß in Bavaria. Founded in 2003, the company’s portfolio of services is rounded off with products in the areas of switchboard assembly, plastics technology, and rapid prototyping. In order to be able to fulfil its own high quality standards throughout such a wide range of industries and products, the company with its 2850 employees and 6 locations in 4 countries, relies on CAQ AG’s CAQ.Net software solutions from Rheinböllen in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Pöppelmann GmbH & Co. KG Kunststoffwerk-Werkzeugbau

Since 1949, the company Pöppelmann GmbH & Co. KG, with 2,500 employees at five production sites in three countries and 700 injection moulding machines, thermoforming lines, and extruders, has become one of the leading manufacturers in the plastics processing industry. Pöppelmann’s solution portfolio is divided into four divisions that operate principally on an industry-specific basis. The KAPSTO division is the world’s leading manufacturer of caps and plugs, K-TECH is a leading supplier primarily to the automotive industry and TEKU provides plant pots, trays, and individual solutions for commercial horticulture.

Kunststoff-Institut für die mittelständische Wirtschaft NRW GmbH

At the beginning of every quality assurance effort lies the individual measurement value. If this value is measured incorrectly, the collected data is unreliable and has an undesirable effect on all downstream quality management processes. The Kunststoff-Institut Lüdenscheid relies on CAQ AG’s software solutions for gauge and qualification management in order to ensure consistently trained and qualified employees, calibrated test equipment, and valid measurement values right from the very beginning - even in today’s age of working from home and decentralized e-learning.

Töpfer GmbH

It’s amazing, but a baby’s brain at birth already has as many neurons as an adult brain, yet it weighs barely a quarter of the adult brain. This is because the infant neurons are not yet fully grown and the number of neural connections increases enormously during development. In the course of the first year of life, the weight of the brain triples. This requires an enormous amount of energy and thus food intake on the part of the infant. In a metaphorical sense, similar applies for computer software systems.

Samaplast AG

SAMAPLAST AG, based in St. Margrethen, Switzerland, is a manufacturer of injection moulded medical parts and implants whose portfolio includes sterilisation and final packaging. The company has been developing technical precision parts and assemblies made of all types of plastic since 1960 and produces them, among other things, in three GMP-compliant ISO Class 7 and 8 clean rooms in accordance with EN ISO 14644. In addition to 3D printing, additive manufacturing, and prototypes in 10 days, all injection moulding tools are also manufactured in-house. When it comes to software-supported quality management, the company has been successfully relying on CAQ AG’s CAQ.Net software solutions since 2007.

EOS GmbH

Nothing is impossible. Today’s methods of laser sintering technology allow the production of objects whose shapes and properties seem to be limited only by one’ s own imagination. In this generative manufacturing process, also known as “3D printing”, spatial structures are melted with a laser from a powdery starting material. This process results in components that are particularly sought after by the automotive, medical technology, and aerospace sectors – not least because of their unique combination of lightweight construction and material strength.

voestalpine Automotive Components Cold Stamping & Assemblies Gruppe

As a supplier to the automotive industry, the voestalpine Automotive Components Cold Stamping & Assemblies Group is certified according to IATF 16949. In the past, the requirements that result from this standard were met “site-specifically”. This meant that each location largely controlled its quality management processes independently, which led to the implementation of a wide variety of software solutions. In order to eliminate the disadvantages of these isolated solutions and to standardize the quality management processes of all plants, a global CAQ project was initiated in 2015. The CAQ.Net software from CAQ AG was to form the basis of this cross-location, uniform CAQ system.

Wild & Küpfer AG

Wild & Küpfer is an internationally operating company that specializes in the production of injection-moulding parts and subassemblies. It was founded in Switzerland in 1979 and today has over 170 employees. Eighty-five injection-moulding machines at Wild & Küpfer produce high-tech plastic parts for a vast variety of industries. Even though the supplied industries such as building, sensor, electronics, automotive, or telecommunications technology all have particular requirements regarding the manufacturing process, one industry is particularly demanding: medical technology. In order to meet the strict regulatory prerequisites of the FDA and ISO 13485, Wild & Küpfer lays its trust in the software solutions of CAQ AG.

Zimmer Group

Whether handling, damping, linear, machine tooling, system, or process technology – Zimmer Group brings together a vast variety of different technologies in one brand. With consistent growth and branches and sales partners in 28 countries, the company has over the years developed into a true global player. 1,300 employees however only mark the beginning for Zimmer group, as revenue growth has consistently been double-figures for years now. In order to ensure that the quality of its products and processes can keep up with this rapid growth, the company has been successfully relying on software solutions by CAQ AG since the year 2004.

Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH

With annual revenue of over 700 million Euros and 1,060 employees in Germany, Austria, Canada, and Switzerland, Jungbunzlauer is one of the international leaders in the field of biologically degradable product ingredients.

Gaplast GmbH

GAPLAST GmbH is an innovative developer and producer of packagings, applications, and disposable products for use in the pharmaceuticals, medical-technology, and cosmetics industry. Founded in the Bavarian town of Saulgrub-Altenau in 1969, the history of the company began with the development of an innovative sealing plug for tablet packaging.

DKS Surface GmbH

Automotive suppliers throughout all of Europe lay their trust in Fischer and more than a third of all cars produced in Europe contain plastic parts produced by Fischer. Whether the complete dashboard of the Audi A6, ventilation nozzles in the Audi A3, speedometer housings in the Mercedes C-Class, or seating applications in Rolls Royce limousines: the more than 600 employees at the three Fischer production facilities ensure that the automotive industry and other specialist lines of industry are supplied with consistently high quality plastic injection moulded parts.

Eagle Simrax B.V.

Eagle Simrax B.V. is part of the EKK Eagle Industry-Group (Automotive) and produces approximately 30 million seals a year for water pumps and air-conditioning compressors that are used by a variety of OEM and Tier 1 automotive manufacturers. The success of the company is, amongst other factors, sustained by a company-wide awareness regarding the benefits of sophisticated quality management and a comprehensively lived CAQ-software system.

Henkell & Co. Sektkellerei KG

Whether New Year’s Eve, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries: whenever there’s something to celebrate, the products of Henkell & Co. come into play. In order to ensure that all the bottles pop during these special moments, the long-established company from Wiesbaden utilizes cutting edge CAQ.Net quality management solutions to adhere to strict quality standards.

Kolb GmbH

The screws used for automotive, engineering, or construction applications have nothing more than the name in common with the variants purchased from your local hardware store around the corner. Whereas one usually merely needs to decide if the screws are required for concrete, wood, or metal, the criteria for special application screws bring up a whole host of different questions.

Klein Kunststofftechnik GmbH

In order to consolidate the various requirements for companies operating in the automotive sector, the IATF (International Automotive Task Force) together with the technical committee of the ISO developed the ISO/TS 16949. This guideline first appeared in 1999. As supplier to the automotive industry, the company Klein Kunststofftechnik GmbH from the German town of Dettenheim is also certified according to this standard. In order to successfully fulfil all framework conditions, it implemented the CAQ.Net management system by CAQ AG Factory Systems in the year 2007.

Ingenieurbüro und Plastverarbeitung Quinger GmbH

When Thomas Quinger strides through his production facility in the German town of Flöha, near Chemnitz, he can look back at a proud history of over 25 years characterized by continuous growth and innovation. Founded by his father Joachim in 1990 as one-man business, the company today employs over 70 people. In a three-shift system they operate hybrid ARBURG Allrounder machines in order to manufacture injection moulded parts for a vast variety of industries.

Peter Fuchs Technology Group AG

Modern diesel fuelled cars in the uppermost power segment produce between 300 and 500 HP, and the strongest truck that is manufactured in series produces a whopping 750 HP. These are pretty impressive figures. Those numbers do, however, appear a little unspectacular when compared with the values of large diesel engines in construction vehicles, ships, trains, and industrial power generators. The engines for which Peter Fuchs Technology Group manufactures components require not only the adding of a zero but also the doubling of the sum: their output ranges from 1000 to 6000 HP and well of 10,000 HP in maritime applications.

Müllertechnologie Gruppe GmbH

The plastics industry creates objects in all shapes and sizes and colours of the rainbow – products without which our everyday life would most probably be unthinkable. It applies techniques such as injection moulding in order to shape synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids into any form imaginable and thereby fulfil varying criteria regarding plasticity, hardness, elasticity, or durability. One rock-solid factor must, however, never be underestimated when dealing with such an incredibly flexible material: quality.

ARBURG GmbH + Co KG

Quality assurance: External CAQ AG module integrated in ARBURG host computer system

Aicher Präzisionstechnik GmbH & Co. KG

Vehicle transmissions are highly complex devices and it comes as no surprise that the parts utilized within are subject to extreme physical forces. Revolutions are counted in steps of thousands and the operating temperatures range across a scale of almost 200 degrees Celsius – from outside temperatures of way beyond zero degrees in arctic climates to well into the hundreds when the transmission is in use…and the levels of torque that are transmitted are quite sufficient enough to uproot entire trees.

Berlin Heart GmbH

The Nantes University Hospital in France, the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, and the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze/Poland have all been partner institutes of Berlin Heart GmbH since 2011. Within the course of cardiac patient treatment, these institutes are each able to implant Berlin Heart artificial hearts. These cardiac support systems take over the heart’s pumping function for patients who suffer from severe heart failure.

MGH GussTec GmbH & Co. KG

MGH GussTec GmbH & Co. KG is based in Baden-Wuerttemberg and produces cast parts for land and water vehicles. From cars and utility vehicles to trains for Deutsche Bahn and ships – all these types of vehicle contain parts manufactured by MGH GussTec. Sophisticated sand and chill casting techniques are used to manufacture components for radiators, oil sumps or ready-to-install intercoolers.

VDL Enabling Technologies Group

„To meet the highest specifications of the ISO 9001 and 14001 standards as well as medical standard 13485 and aerospace standard AS9100, we needed a system that could document the quality of our products and integrate quality development into the existing workflow.“ This is how Hugo Kok describes the criteria for selecting his quality management software. As a quality assurance manager for VDL Enabling Technologies Group (VDL ETG), which employs some 1,500 people worldwide, Mr. Kok, from his post in the Dutch city of Almelo, has been fully engaged in the CAQ system since 2008.

Müller Präzision GmbH

Tough on the issues – soft on people. Which company would sound more convincing carrying this management principle than a specialist for lathing, hard turning, grinding, and milling? Müller Präzision GmbH, located in Cham in Bavaria, handles customer orders on a strictly process-oriented basis and leads its employees with transparent identification numbers. In this way, every employee has open access to his or her performance within the company team.

Heraeus Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

Those who think of precious metals think of gold and silver because these materials are rare and therefore of great value. Yearly, 20,000 tons of silver are extracted worldwide and only 2,500 tons of gold. Examining the ranking of ores with more scrutiny, it becomes apparent that the extracted volume of the raw material platinum is significantly lower with only 500 tons per year. It is therefore quite remarkable that more than 90% of all used or consumed products contain platinum or have at least come in contact with platinum during their production process.

Sartorius Stedim Plastics GmbH

When the college-educated mechanic Florenz Sartorius from Göttingen founded his company in1870, no one imagined that it would go on to become an international supplier of laboratory and process technology. Even though the city of Göttingen was already known at this time for its superior mechanical and optical industry, it wasn’t yet conceivable that, including the areas biotechnology and mechatronics, the company would grow to have a business volume of over 600 Million Euro and employ 4,500 people.

Martin Kaiser GmbH & Co. KG

Synthetic materials have become an integral part of our everyday lives, and, due to their versatility, it is difficult to imagine life without them. We encounter them daily in the form of packing materials, textiles, automobile tires, or even in the areas of personal hygiene, incorporated into cosmetics. Synthetics, due to their tolerance of high temperatures and very low electrical conductivity, are well suited for uses in electronics as materials for electrical insulations and enclosures.

Rockwell Automation

When one speaks of Switzerland, the first things that come to mind are great cheese, powerful banks, and a multilingual society. Most of all, however, it was the precision work of watch and clock manufacturing that made the Land of the Confederates famous.

Vosseler GmbH

At Vosseler GmbH in Aldingen, compression moulding is one of the most important jobs. The company, steeped in tradition since 1948, processes wire of up to 35 mm, in order to manufacture cold-formed parts. Every day, batch lots of up to two million pieces leave the factory, including locking screws, coupling nuts, as well as specialized aluminium and steel parts for the automobile industry, their suppliers, and the engineering industry in general. In order to manufacture locking screws and other parts with even greater width across flats, the company also employs warm as well as cold formed molding blanks.

Roth Werke GmbH

The range of products manufactured at Roth Industries GmbH is diverse. Pipes for heating and cooling systems, containers for water and oil, and complete sanitation systems belong to its repertoire, as do high-quality automobile parts made of plastics. The latter are manufactured by the independently operated company Roth Plastics Technology, not far from the home office in Dautphetal.

Federal Mogul

Engines, carburetor systems, pistons, ball bearings, and cables; there is scarcely an automotive part that is not produced somewhere in the Nuremberg region. There are over 30,000 automotive workers employed here which makes up circa 5% of the region’s entire workforce.

Continental

Those active in the automotive manufacturing sector must be able to compute. Alfred Teves’s company must have agreed with this statement when it took over the production facility Friden-Singer in 1971. Up to this point the company, located in the Flemish region of Mechelen near Brussels, engaged in manufacturing mechanical adding machines. These machines possessed an especially impressive and highly precise interior structure.

TI Automotive (Heidelberg) GmbH

If you are traveling on the highway at high speeds and have to use your brake suddenly, chances are you’re not thinking of the company TI Automotive. But, nonetheless, at that moment there exists a close connection between the driver, his or her intention to reduce the speed of the vehicle, and the provider of brake and gasoline lines, TI Automotive.

Hartmann Codier GmbH

Hartmann, founded over fifty years ago in Baiersdorf, has been part of the Swiss corporation Phoenix Mecano since 1985 and started out producing counters and developing thumbwheel code switches. Approximately 100 employees-strong, the company today specializes in the production of electromechanical components for a national and international market.

ANKA-Draht Insinger KG

In the style of well-known companies such as Haribo or IKEA, whose names are traceable to the initials of the founders or their home towns, ANKA-Draht Insinger KG was likewise named after its founders Andreas and Kamilla Insinger. The firm, established in 1971 and today employing over 200 workers, is still family-owned and managed by the second-generation Andreas Insinger.

Boehringer Ingelheim microParts GmbH

Having a cold is a nuisance: Your nose is running, your throat hurts, and your ears ache from pressure, in other words, your whole body feels miserable. Going to a drugstore and picking up a remedy can be a great relief. But remedies that bring relief are dependent on years of research and development. Only after an elaborate approval procedure does the medication become available to patients on the national and international market.

NORMA Germany GmbH

NORMA’s roots reach back into automotive history. Long before the current company was founded, J. S. Rasmussen, the father of one of Rasmussen GmbH’s founding members and grandfather of one of its current CEOs, was responsible for the creation of Zschopauer Motor Works. The Saxon company produced cars and motorcycles under the brand name DKW, which is still a well-known trademark today, and exported them worldwide.

Seeger GmbH & Co. OHG

Seeger-Orbis GmbH & Co, located in Königstein near Frankfurt, has been producing safety rings and circlips for the automotive industry since 1917. In a total production area of 36,000 m2, 230 employees ensure maximum customer satisfaction by producing high-quality products for this subsidiary of Barnes Group, now operating worldwide.