LIWO
Lippok & Wolf: Company history
| 1976 | Harry Wolf and Horst Lippok found "Lippok & Wolf GmbH" with a main office in Schorndorf. |
| 1988 | Move to a new, modern company building with 1,500 m<sup>2</sup> usable area in Welzheim. |
| 1990 | Transfer from a drawing board to mechanical CAD. |
| 1992 | First PC-supported control technology for LIWO systems and first implementation in field bus technologies. |
| 1993 | Harry Wolf assumes the business share of Horst Lippok. |
| 1993 | Development of the "UNIDIM", a modularly assembled, industrial system concept for leak test. |
| 1996 | Introduction into Windows technology with the BDE and PDE product lines for data acquisition. |
| 1999 | Founding of the computer and network section LIWO C&N with locations in Welzheim and Schwäbisch Hall. |
| 2000 | Expansion and extension of the company building to 2,000 m² production and office area. |
| 2001 | Development of the "Compact-UNIDIM" as a low cost alternative to the larger UNDIM system. |
| 2002 | Development of "LEO", a process and visualization software matched to test processes for use in systems controls. |
| 2003 | Management buy out: Gunther Arnold, Edith Geiger and Edgar Schäfer purchase shares in the business and assume responsibility as executive officers in a GM team. |
| 2004 | Introduction of a modern, medium-sized enterprise oriented ERP system. |
| 2005 | Introduction of a quality management systems and certification to DIN EN ISO 9001:2000-12. |
| 2006 | Introduction into the solar sector. |
| 2008 | Introduction of an environmental management system and certification to DIN EN ISO 14001. |
| 2009 | Development of a new leak test technology for extremely fast measurement procedures (cycle times up to 500 parts / min). |
| 2011 | Introduction of a multiple project planner |
| 2013 | license of authorized exporter |
| 2014 | Development of a new leak test method NID based on the detection of nitrogen |
| 2018 | First industrial use of the NID process |
| 2018 | Gunther Arnold, Edith Geiger and Edgar Schäfer retire from the management |
| 2019 | Holger Fordinal forms together with Harry Wolf the new managing team |