Heidenhain Opens New Building

Published: April 19, 2007, By pffc-online.com

PRESS RELEASE

SCHAUMBURG, IL— 2006 was a record-breaking year for unit sales of Heidenhain encoders, and the company completed a state-of-the-art building at its world headquarters in Traunreut, Germany. The 135,000-sq.-ft. facility now is in use for the purpose of encoder assembly and R&D.

The new building has five floors and houses 600 employees. The basement is divided into three approximately equal areas: the assembly area for high-accuracy encoders; long term testing for product qualification during the development process; and technical facilities. The ground floor and second floor houses the assembly area for linear encoders, rotary encoders, and angle encoders. Large parts of the first floor are used for air recirculation fo the production level below, and the remaining spaces provide break rooms for the production employees and offices for production planning and production engineering. The third and fourth floors of the building offer space for the offices and labs of the R&D for encoder mechanics, R&D for encoder electronics, and encoder quality assurance. See heidenhain.com.