About Yaskawa VIPA Controls
Innovative automation technology
There is no advancement without innovations. Innovations open new solutions. Innovations bring success. VIPA is seen as innovative by its customers and partners, because here solutions are found by leaving usual routes that bring real competitive advantages. We focus on customer requirements, whether it is simple or complex solutions.
VIPA Controls story
We always wanted to improve what already exists. Already the first offices.
VIPA GmbH was a start-up before the word was ever invented. Founded in 1985 by Wolfgang Seel, driven by his enthusiasm for automation and the necessary vision for the possibilities of this industry. And all this at a time when the Commodore 64 was considered to be the top performer. It’s true the first company address wasn’t a garage, but nevertheless only a three-room apartment. For the business plan however that’s all the room that was needed: Thinking laterally, offering alternatives but remaining compatible.
The first products were supplements and optimizations for existing Siemens systems, then in the nineties the first PLC-Systems of their own were added, after that innovation followed innovation. Today, with its range of products, among others one of the fastest Hard-PLCs worldwide, VIPA is now completely established. But we continue to follow the principle of open interfaces. So successfully, that in the mean time even S5 and S7 systems can be combined together.
Product : micro PLC – VIPA CONTROLS
In fast motion: from component manufacturer to system supplier.
1985 Founding of VIPA GmbH in Erlangen
1988 The world’s first Inrack PC for Simatic from Siemens
1990 Strategic orientation of the company towards hardware components
1995 The world’s first TCP/IP prozessors for Simatic from Siemens
1996 Premiere of their first own PLC system 200V
1997 Founding of the ASIC-Design center
1999 Founding of the sister company profichip GmbH
2000 The company moves to Herzogenaurach
2001 Premiere of the Micro-PLC System 100V
2003 Premiere of the SPEED7-Technology, the fastest Hard-PLC in the world
2005 Premiere of the Touch Panel Family
2006 Premiere of the SPEED7-Chips 7001
2007 Premiere of the C-class CPUs with SPEED7-Technology
2008 Premiere of the Profibus Interface for the Integration of S7-Systems in S5-facilities
2009 Extension of the company headquarters with fully automatic high-bay storage, training rooms and new office space; Premiere of the I/O system SLIO®
2010 Certification of the company in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001
2011 Premiere of the first PROFINET products
2012 Presentation of the VIPA automation framework SPEED7 Studio
2012 YASKAWA Europe GmbH Acquisition of majority of the shares of VIPA GmbH
2016 Premiere of the MICRO-PLC