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VIPA company historyVIPA GmbH was founded in 1985 in Erlangen by Mr. Wolfgang Seel as a system house for automation engineering. After production of the fi rst PC-based machine operating panel there were further developments of control and industrial communication modules. The fi rstcustomers were from the automotive and food industry, conveying engineering and machine and plant construction. VIPA has been increasingly active in the European market since 1995.The introduction of the modular automation system 200V was the basis for creating more powerful, faster and more reliable systems. In the year 2000 the new 2000 sq.m headquar-ter in Herzogenaurach, west of Erlangen was opened.The development of the SPEED7 High-Speed MANUFACTURER OF PLC in 2003 was a further technological mile-stone in the automation equipment range. In 2005, VIPA has extended the product range with the Touch Panel family.More than 100 highly qualifi ed employees are working for VIPA in Germany. In addition to that there are 62 VIPA branch offi ces and service partners in 58 countries. 1985 - Foundation of VIPA GmbH by Mr. Wolfgang Seel1988 - First Inrack-PC for the SIMATIC from Siemens in the world1990 - Focusing on hardware components 1995 - First TCP/IP processors for the SIMA-TIC from Siemens in the world 1996 - Introduction of the fi rst own PLC system- System 200V1997 - Foundation of ASIC design centre 1999 - Foundation of Profi chip GmbH2000 - Move to new headquarter inHerzogenaurach2001 - Introduction of the Micro-PLC-system - System 100V 2003 - Development of SPEED7 technology - the fastest Hard-PLC in the world2005 - Development of VIPA Touch Panel family2006 - More than 60 distributors and branch offi ces worldwide2007 - Introduction of Compact-Class CPUs with SPEED7 technology Wolfgang Seel President