Spirit of Enterprise, Innovation and Quality Products.

Technical expertise and know-how – from practice to application.

“Precision is our premise”at SIKO!– With this philosophy,Dr. Guenther Wandresfounded the company inthe year 1963 in Buchen-bach in the vicinity of theBlack Forest in Germany.Since then, the companyhas developed from the manufacturer of hand-wheels with built-in analogue indi-cators to the world-wide technolo- gy leader for mechanical positionindicators. And this basic concept,innovative energy, product develop- ment and spirit industrial still characterisethe company. Since taking over the business in the year 1990, grad-uate engineer Horst Wandres, sonof the company founder, has con-tinuously and successfully further developed this philosophy in thecompany.Decisive milestones in companyhistory, include, the developmentof a digital indicator instead of a pointer and scale in 1977. The in-troduction of optoelectronic meas-uring systems and the magnetic measuring technique in 1990 showconclusively that SIKO productdevelopment is clearly focused on the future. indicators to MAGLINE, the innov-ative, magnetic length measuringsystem from SIKO.Dynamics and advancement are thedriving forces in all product areas.Today, SIKO offers a wide spectrum of optimum solutions for individualapplications in distance and anglemeasurement.Motivation and team spirit of theSIKO employees are not the leastof the secrets of this successful de-velopment of precision. Continuousand conscious integration of the experience gained by the 135 em-ployees keep the various areas ofthe company lively by combining outstanding individual perform-an-ces to an efficient overall or- gani-zation.Working together in constant co-operation with the customer, the company’s divisions of develop-ment, industrial production and marketingcreate innovative solutions and services regarding measurementtechnology in machine engineer-ing. That is SIKO today. Open forthe future…The line of developments is con-sistent. It leads from digital posi-tion indicators and handwheels via incremental rotation industrial encoders, ab-solute encoders and measurement 2
Classical ex-ample of pro- ducts and ideas from SIKO: The DA09S, world- wide the most frequently used position indicator.