ZUMBACH 60th ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTS & EQUIPMENT
as Tripet, Charmilles, Kellenberger, Tschudin, Studer and others became regular customers. As a result, hundreds if not thousands of ZUMBACH drives found their way to the four corners of the earth. Many of them are still in operation today.
Changing times and new visions In the early 1960s, Zumbach realised that its
business with drives could not guarantee a viable future for the company. The field was marked by new technical possibilities and thus growing numbers of competitors, who began to force down prices and margins. The machine tool industry would also soon begin its process of decline. Around 1972, a plan was developed to produce an eccentricity tester for electrical cables. In 1974, Zumbach was granted a patent
The Ward Leonard drive in a Kellenberger machine
The start in Orpund, Switzerland in 1964 – now the headquarters of the global ZUMBACH group
The workforce had since grown to around 20 and new premises were required.
A small factory building was built in a few months and today (with new cladding) still forms the heart of the company’s main building in Orpund.
for the new inductive EX-TEST 7 device. It became the first major success in what was then the new field of in-line measuring equipment.
The product range – and the company – continues to grow
The optical diameter measuring devices became Zumbach’s most successful products! The analogue ODC types were created around 1975, the absolute measuring ODAC® gauges from 1977. The ODAC® 24 was the first gauge with absolute measurement to be sold in large quantities. “ODAC®” became a registered trademark; over 80,000 ODAC®s of all types and for a huge range of applications have been sold since then. Zumbach has became a clear global leader in the field for many years.
Single axis ODAC® 24 made in 1977
The first brochure of the EX-TEST 7
Advanced triple axis ODAC® 63TRIO made today
Oscillating DVO unit with ODAC® head, especially suited for sector cable measurement
Then and now: top 1964 – Building fabric in Orpund: above -Zumbach Electronic AG today
RAYEX® X-Ray measuring system in CV line
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ODAC® XY measuring head on an DVW 1 oscillating device, measuring shaped wire
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