Smart manufacturing
Zeiss buys MES company Guardus
With the Manufacturing Execution System from Guardus, Zeiss wants to expand its portfolio in the direction of networked intelligent production.
"With Guardus, our software solutions such as Zeiss PiWeb will be supplemented by a previously unavailable comprehensive database and we will be able to offer our customers even more comprehensive services. Together we are striving for a new level of integrated solutions for agile process control. We are concerned with the foundation for automated control processes, learning systems and simulation methods for networked and intelligent quality assurance in the smart factory," explains Dr. Jochen Peter, Member of the Executive Board of the Zeiss Group and Chairman of the Management Board of Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH.
"We are convinced that the integration into the Zeiss Group, with its large installed base, will give Guardus even better starting conditions for further developments and further strong growth," says Simone Cronjäger, founder and CEO of Guardus. She continues: "The integration of Guardus solutions and thus all vertical and horizontal information processes creates a unique decision-making intelligence. It extends from the field and control level to the comprehensive process and operations management level."
The joint initial customer focus is on the automotive and mechanical engineering industries as well as medical technology. The existing Guardus sites in Ulm and Timisoara, Romania, are to be retained.
For the approximately 60 employees, the transfer of operations will be organized in accordance with the statutory regulations, the two companies announced.
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