Our 25th anniversary, and looking forward to the future
AUCOTEC was founded in April precisely 25 years ago. "Of course on such a special anniversary one looks back gladly and with a certain pride", said Board Chairman and co-founder Horst Beran on the occasion of the 25th anniversary, but our main focus is on the future, because there is much that we want to accomplish." Thus the anniversary also marks the start of a new company leitmotif, which has now replaced our long-standing motto "Let´s make engineering easy!" with "Create Synergy - Connect Processes".
The consequence of AUCOTEC's solid basis of experience with specialised solutions for the fields of mechanical and systems engineering, process control technology, power supply and wiring harness development is the Engineering Base (EB) platform. Not only has its database-driven concept resulted in efficient process optimisation for numerous customers, it has also created an approach that is quite different from conventional electrical configuration tools. The experts at AUCOTEC are convinced that in the long run, maximum efficiency is only possible through networking and interdisciplinary cooperation.
April 1985
Founding of "Automatisierungs- und Computertechnik AUCOTEC GmbH"; its first product: ELCAD, developed for the planning of electrical engineering components in machines and systems. Programming based on HP Basic
1999
A new, database-driven and object-oriented tool with the working title "Easylectric" is used to gain initial experience in the UK test market.
1986
First PC version of ELCAD, programming for MS-DOS, designed for a maximum memory capacity of 640 KB, keyboard-oriented; start of ELCAD programming for Unix with a Motif user interface
2003
Transformation of AUCOTEC GmbH into the unlisted AUCOTEC AG
1993
AUCOTEC is the first E-CAD company to switch over to MS Windows. This makes additional graphics tablets and their drivers as well as extra drivers for printers and graphics cards superfluous. The memory limit of 640 KB is eliminated.
2004
Easylectric is renamed Engineering Base (EB); the additional alphanumeric processing is clearly superior to the purely graphical orientation that was common up until then.
1994
AUCOPLAN, AUCOTEC's new CAD tool for process control technology, combines for the first time a graphical system with a tabular work process.
2007
Acquisition of RACOS GmbH, Constance, with all of its employees; Constance becomes AUCOTEC's third development centre in Germany. (There are international subsidiaries in Austria, Italy, the UK and the USA, starting 2008 also in China.)
1997
Transfer of all RUPLAN activities and the development team of Debis SSP GmbH into a proprietary AUCOTEC subsidiary in Frankfurt
2010
All AUCOTEC products are ready for the switchover to EB, which is possible at any time. All maintenance customers are offered the switchover free of charge; licences for ELCAD, RUPLAN and AUCOPLAN remain valid.
Today
AUCOTEC is 25 years old "Create Synergy - Connect Processes" is the new company leitmotif. It illustrates AUCOTEC's new focus and the ability of the Engineering Base platform to deal with all electrical engineering processes, even in different disciplines, using just one tool - a logical consequence of 25 years of experience with ELCAD and the members of its "family".
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