ifm takes over CMS Automatisierungstechnik
On 28 February 2023, ifm took over CMS Automatisierungstechnik GmbH in Linz, Austria. This strengthens ifm's activities in the field of cloud-based machine diagnostics.
Lothar Zimmer, Central Managing Director of ifm and Christoph Müllner, former shareholder of CMS Automatisierungstechnik at the notarisation of the purchase contract.
With a total of nine employees, CMS offers automated data analyses for early damage detection and predictive maintenance. With the help of the data, diagnoses and forecasts are derived in order to be able to carry out condition-based, targeted maintenance and servicing measures. From the sensor to the cloud, this creates a powerful offering for customers from a wide range of industries. This includes automated vibration analyses and diagnoses as well as complete process evaluations. The two companies, ifm diagnostic and CMS, already have many years of experience in working together. The first pilot projects for cloud-based machine diagnostics are already running. With the integration of CMS, ifm is taking another strategically important step into the future and thus achieving new business areas and a more stable competitiveness.
The new company, which will operate under the name ifm diagnostic services gmbh in the future, will strengthen the "process" division at ifm. Andreas Hornstein and Michael Danitschek will be operationally responsible for the division together with the current shareholder Christoph Müllner. In the "process" division the central managing directors Lothar Zimmer and Hans Peter Müller are responsible for the new subsidiary.