Automation firm Witron grew revenues 6.2% in 2017

The company has hired 300 additional staff members so that Witron currently employs more than 3,100 people worldwide.

The HQ in Parkstein, Germany was also enlarged, with extra space for production, storage, and offices.  

Witron sees the reasons for the positive development in the high implementation quality and “that our innovative solutions optimally map the requirements of our customers in the store, online, and in the Omni-Channel business”, said Witron CEO, Helmut Prieschenk.

This is also underlined by numerous new orders from regular and new customers from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, the Benelux countries, Scandinavia, and North America.  

Prieschenk said: “Innovations, competences, and commitment are undoubtedly very important prerequisites for success. However, it is crucial that we complete projects successfully – that we keep our promise – then we will also be rewarded with customer loyalty. This explains why some customers have already realised ten systems and more with us. On average, for example, in the food retail sector, the repeat rate is more than four systems per customer – a number we are extremely proud of and which, in our opinion, may be unique.”

Witron’s Service department also saw strong growth, with 20% more people in the service area compared to the previous year. Service revenue also increased by 20% to some 155 million Euros.”

The services offered as an “End-to-End” service provider range from the expert helpdesk to the complete functional responsibility as a system operator and logistics service provider. These services are called Witron Logistics Operation Service.   

Witron also sees itself well-positioned for the future with its holistic systems across all industry sectors. 

“Witron solutions are designed to flexibly meet constantly changing market needs, including the latest OPM generation 4.0, the modules AIO (All-in-One Order Fulfillment), the swarm-intelligent EMP (Efficient Mobile Picking), as well as the OFP (Optimal Fresh Picking) for highly dynamic logistics processes within the fresh food area”, explains Martin Stich, Technical CEO at Witron.

In 2017, the Witron Portal as well as the Digital Twin were also presented to the experts for the first time. The Witron Portal is an intelligent gateway that seamlessly connects Witron’s logistics modules to the customer’s system environment and other ecosystems through state-of-the-art web, app, or cloud technologies – a crucial step in the era of Big Data and self-learning systems for the generation of real-time logistics networks. WiTwin is the digital twin of customised system solutions and applications, which is already successfully used for the design, installation, and the operation of distribution centres.