Trump and Stopa
Strategic partnership for smart factory solutions
The high-tech company Trumpf and one of the leading manufacturers of automated storage systems, Stopa, intend to work even more closely together in the future. The two companies have now announced an agreement to this effect.
Stopa supplies automated storage systems for Trumpf's Smart Factory solutions, among other things. This enables customers to load and unload their machines automatically and network them logistically. Productivity in production increases as unproductive downtimes are greatly reduced.
Storage systems from Stopa can be optimally adapted to the growing challenges of modern smart factory production or integrated into existing factories. Automation in conjunction with the new Trumpf Oseon software demonstrates its particular advantages - this allows production planning and control to be simplified even further, right up to fully automated operation of sheet metal production.
Trumpf relies heavily on partnerships and open standards when expanding its Smart Factory solutions. These include the open interfaces from umati, the open positioning standards from omlox and the existing partnerships with intralogistics specialist Jungheinrich, coil handling, straightening and deburring machine expert ARKU, machine software company Lantek and STARMATIK, a specialist for customized automation solutions.
Most recently, Trumpf combined the Smart Factory Solutions division under one organizational umbrella across all departments to focus on further growth.
Stopa was founded in Achern, Germany, in 1963 and employs around 370 people. The company specializes in automated storage systems for sheet metal and long goods as well as fully automated parking systems.
"After more than 35 years of successful partnership with Trumpf in the automation of production, we are now looking forward to taking the next step together," says Michael Stolzer, shareholder of Stopa Anlagenbau GmbH.
Till Küppers, Managing Director Production Machine Tools at Trumpf, emphasizes: "With this move, we want to put our joint success with Stopa on a new and future-proof footing, especially in the expansion of our Smart Factory solutions. Together with Stopa, we will be able to offer our customers an even more comprehensive range of efficient, sustainable and productivity-enhancing solutions in the future."
Trumpf's investment in Stopa is still subject to approval by the relevant antitrust authorities.
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