Milestones: The history of Baumüller

Baumüller MeilensteineOver 90 years ago, Heinrich Baumüller founded a repair shop for electrical machines in 1930. The company soon began manufacturing its own three-phase motors. In the company’s second generation, Günter Baumüller took over the management, entered into new markets and regions, and expanded Baumüller to become a global player. At present, the Baumüller Group is managed by Andreas Baumüller. As a response to current megatrends, intelligent system solutions and digital services for industrial automation and drive technology as well as e-mobility have now become an integral part of Baumüller’s portfolio.

Come with us into the future

Change and improve – that’s been our goal since 1930. Tradition and a pioneering spirit have been the pillars of our family-run company from the beginning. This spirit comes to life in each of our products, making us a sustainably stable and reliable system partner for modular and flexible automation solutions.

Our motto, “be in motion,” stands for the standard we have set ourselves of always being one step ahead of current technology trends. It also stands for a strong partnership, in which we support our customers quickly and flexibly – with first-class products and services in all phases of a machine life cycle. For us, it’s a given. Because we benchmark ourselves against your satisfaction.

Milestones in our success story

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    1930

    1930 - 1970

    1930 Founded as a repair company for direct current and three-phase motors
    1945 Start of in-house motor production with the construction of three-phase motors
    1960 Production of direct current motors
    1970 Start of electronics manufacturing with the construction of converters

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    1983

    1983 - 1991

    1983 Start of production of disc motors
    1985 New three-phase current servo motors and transistor converters
    1987 First branch on the American continent opened in Hartford, USA
    1991 Baumüller becomes a pioneer in direct drive technology

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    1993

    1993 - 1996


    1993 Programmable control system omega combines fast control engineering with a fast control unit (PLC)
    1995 Development and production of brushless, linear three-phase drives for heavy loads&nbsp
    1995 Baumüller makes drives intelligent
    1996 Baumüller establishes joint venture in India
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    1998

    1998 - 2000

    1998 Inauguration of new electronics production facility at Nuremberg site
    2000 omega Drive Line II – the world’s fastest PLC for use in drives

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    2001

    2001 - 2002

    2001 b maXX, the new controller and converter generation, stands for modularity, scalability, and openness
    2002 New synchronous motor series DST extends motor range in the field of direct drive technology

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    2003

    2003 - 2004

    2003 Entry into electromobility: development of the powerMELA drive concept for mobile applications
    2004 Inauguration of new training center at Nuremberg site
    2004 Fieldbus solution based on real-time Ethernet for b maXX 4400 converter series
    2004 Andreas Baumüller joins Baumüller Nürnberg GmbH as Managing Director of Technology

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    2005

    2005 - 2006

    2005 Nürmont integrated into the Baumüller Group
    2006 Nürmont expands into the USA and Asia
    2006 sizemaXX software developed for drive dimensioning

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    2007

    2007 - 2010

    2007 Baumüller develops the highly efficient, easy-to-use b maXX 1000 frequency converter
    2008 Baumüller safety control b maXX-safePLC wins the red dot design award
    2008 The joint venture in India becomes 100% part of the Baumüller Group2009 Nürmont opens assembly hall at Freiberg site
    2010 Hybrid concept for mobile drives in commercial vehicles in the powerMELA project

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    2011

    2011 - 2014

    2011 Baumüller DS servo motors used in the first trip around the world in a solar-powered catamaran
    2012 Start of production in Wujiang, China
    2012 The 1,000,000th GDM disc motor leaves the factory
    2013 Baumüller becomes a partner of the VDMA Blue Competence sustainability initiative
    2014 Branch opened in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
    2014 Expansion of Brno and Kitzingen plants

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    2015 - 2022

    2015 DST2 size 315 and 400 motors are certified for shipbuilding by Lloyd’s Register
    2016 IEMTEC becomes a partner company – expansion of digital expertise in the Group
    2018 Shaft height record of the DST2-560 torque motor
    2019 Expansion of sites in Slovenia and China
    2020 The Baumüller Group celebrates its 90th anniversary

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