1989: The year ARADEX is founded
ARADEX develops the first VECTONUM® control in a small building annex. In 1991, ARADEX moves into the ARA1 building in the industrial zone of Lorch, Germany.
1990: The VECTONUM® control enters serial production
This high-quality CNC control on a purely PC basis has achieved the title of “fastest general CNC control in the world”. It has only been topped by its ARADEX successors. In 1990, VECTONUM® already achieves a cycle time of 1 ms.
1991: ARADEX develops the VECTODRIVE® drive amplifier
A new generation of drive amplifiers arises: VECTODRIVE® is characterized by very short rise times and deterministic behavior.
1993: ARADEX receives the innovation prize of the state of Baden-Württemberg
The prize is awarded for the success of the combined control and drive technology of VECTONUM® und VECTODRIVE®.
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1994: ARADEX equips the first flexographic printing press with digital direct drives
The ARADEX drives effortlessly master special challenges such as strong and erratic torque loads, mechanical tolerances and vibration tendency.
1995: Development of the VECTONUM® NT control
The VECTONUM® control uses Windows NT® as an operating system. The range of applications is expanded to include the areas of sheet metal forming, print finishing and machine tools.
1996: Dedication of the ARA2 building extension
Increasing numbers of customers and orders require an extension of the previous capacities.
1999: VECTODRIVE® sets standard
The first drive amplifier of the VD600 series achieves a new record for kilowatt per volume ratio.
2000: Conversion to a corporation
The creation of the corporation ARADEX AG establishes the economic basis for realizing further strategic goals.
2001: ARADEX develops sensorless control
The first industrial application is the sensorless control of a machine with more than 500 ARADEX amplifiers by only one VECTONUM® control.
2001-2002: Outsourcing of production
In 2001, ARADEX starts to outsource production to manufacturing partners in southern Germany, in order to concentrate on the core areas of application and development. As a result, ARADEX specialists are able to concentrate on solving greater challenges with electrical drive technology even better than before.
2003: Real-time control system based on Linux
The V8 system uses all the advantages of the open-source product. For example, the open structure of the system guarantees great future stability – the ideal basis for flexible customer-specific developments.
2004: ARADEX receives the Innovation Prize of Eastern Württemberg
ARADEX AG is awarded the prize in the category of “Patents" for patent 100 36 989, for the compensation of drive errors in web-processing machines. This allows a resource-saving production.
2005: VECTONUM® VD Control
The youngest member of the family of VECTONUM® high-performance controls is the VECTONUM® VD control. As with all VECTONUM® controls, it is completely PC-compatible. The standard PCI bus allows any extensions desired, for example with application-specific fieldbus systems such as Ethernet, Profibus and CAN.
2006: World record in machining
The customer-specific development of a drive amplifier for spindle drives sets a new world record with a metal removing rate of 13.6 l/min aluminum in tests at the Institute for Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools in Darmstadt, Germany
2006: ARADEX introduces drives in the megawatt range
The VD1000 series supplements the proven drive range VD600. The megawatt drives offer full power up to 5 MW for applications such as servo presses.
2007: ARADEX strengthens customer-specific development for special projects
The electromechanical tool clamping system "Clamp-by-Wire", for example, was originally regarded as technically unfeasible. Together with MAPAL, however, ARADEX developed an industrial product based on this idea.
2008: Dedication of the ARADEX center for customer communication and user training
The new communication center allows even more specific and successful support of customers and projects. In this way, ARADEX can assist customers with customer-specific developments and engineering services during a project.
2009: 20 years of ARADEX
With its product and process innovations, ARADEX has permanently established itself as a medium-sized company in the market. In the future, ARADEX will continue to concentrate on customer-specific developments, and engineering services will also be expanded further.