Mit LAUDA.LIVE werden alle Temperier- und Laborlösungen zu vollständig vernetzten und intelligenten IoT-Geräten. © lauda.de
LAUDA introduces an innovative platform for fleet management, remote maintenance and monitoring to the market
Observant visitors were already able to get a first glimpse at ACHEMA and analytica, and now LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG makes it official: A new digital platform – LAUDA.LIVE – is now online. With comprehensive device management, intelligent analysis and monitoring tools, and sophisticated remote maintenance capabilities, the platform maximizes the performance, uptime, and reliability of LAUDA temperature control solutions.
Comprehensive fleet management for transparent device management
LAUDA.LIVE offers a wide range of functions free of charge. Fleet management lets you manage an unlimited number of devices and enter your own names and locations. Well-structured and individually adaptable dashboards provide a clear overview and simplify quick device localization for large device fleets. Users also have access to device-specific product documentation: From data sheets and manuals to installation drawings, everything is just a click away. For optimum management of the temperature control units, LAUDA.LIVE also presents a maintenance logbook and supportive warranty management. As a result, the platform helps to guarantee that no maintenance is forgotten and that the warranty status is always transparent. Optionally, warranty extensions can also be requested directly or service tickets can be created. These tickets are archived and can be used again for reference in subsequent analyses. All these functions do not require the connectivity of the devices and can be applied regardless of the device type.
Extended range of functions for remote maintenance and analysis
The bookable service "Remote Support & Monitoring" provides you with the option of remote maintenance, analysis, and monitoring of the devices. A service hotline with German, English and Chinese native speakers is available 24 hours a day, five days a week (Central European Time). Remote maintenance can significantly reduce the costs of service deployments as the causes of faults can be identified in advance and ideally rectified without the need for on-site service deployment. Software updates and function updates will also be able to be performed remotely in the future, saving further costs and increasing system performance.
Initial user feedback has made it clear that customers also want intelligent monitoring and analysis functions in particular. LAUDA therefore enables the remote monitoring of all networked devices from anywhere – at home, while traveling or in the factory. Device data can be displayed graphically and exported for external documentation, analysis and testing.
Sophisticated and secure
The digital platform is cloud-based with access in the web browser and is therefore compatible with every common operating system. The display is optimized for mobile devices and can be output on a desktop/notebook PC, as well as a tablet or smartphone.
Particular attention was paid to security. Users can choose either a local or a mobile network connection between the constant temperature equipment and LAUDA.LIVE. State-of-the-art PKI encryption, two-factor authentication and access rights management protect the data transmitted to LAUDA.LIVE according to Microsoft Azure IOT recommendations. PKI stands for Public Key Infrastructure, which uniquely identifies a device that is communicating with LAUDA.LIVE. Microsoft's Azure cloud application is used in various security-critical industries, such as energy, aviation and finance. Most people are already familiar with two-factor authentication from the latter sector, as one can only log into online banking using two security levels (for example, a password and TAN). Other applied standards are also known from everyday life – this is the same technology that is employed in VPN networks that are used to access company servers in the home office, for example. The data is stored on European servers in compliance with GDPR.
With LAUDA.LIVE, LAUDA devices become fully networked, intelligent IoT devices. The constant temperature equipment manufacturer is therefore taking precise temperature control into the digital age. According to its claim "Empowering excellence. For a better future", it provides its customers with a comprehensive and powerful package of functions to enable outstanding performance through precise temperature control.
LAUDA.LIVE is now fully available. More information is available on the Internet at: https://www.lauda.live/
Der Geschäftsführende Gesellschafter von LAUDA, Dr. Gunther Wobser, gemeinsam mit dem Geschäftsführer von LAUDA France, Eric Couche, dem aktuellen Vertriebsleiter von LAUDA France und designierten Nachfolger, Maxime Sabre, und dem Geschäftsführer von LAUDA, Dr. Ralf Hermann.
Company celebrates Managing Director of LAUDA France on his retirement
The long-standing head and Managing Director of LAUDA France S.A.R.L., Eric Couche, is the first overseas employee of LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG to be awarded the Dr. Rudolf Wobser Medal for his outstanding performance during his 17 years of service at LAUDA. Eric Couche has managed the foreign subsidiary since it was founded on March 1, 2005, and will retire at the start of next year. To present the Dr. Rudolf Wobser Medal and say farewell to the longstanding colleague in the festive setting of the Château Mont Royal in Chantilly, near Paris, the President & CEO Dr. Gunther Wobser traveled to France for the occasion, together with his wife and the Managing Director for international sales, Dr. Ralf Hermann. The entire team at LAUDA France took part in the celebratory evening.
LAUDA France was founded on March 1, 2005, in Neuilly-sur-Seine – starting with Sales Director Eric Couche as its only employee and an annual turnover of 1.5 million euros. LAUDA France was not only the first subsidiary outside Germany; Eric Couche was also the first overseas LAUDA employee. “I am very thankful for Eric Couche’s contribution and his exceptional work in building up our first foreign subsidiary. The development of LAUDA France has been positively shaped by his reliability and enterprise,” remarked Dr. Gunther Wobser, during his address. Today, the company of ten employees serves key customers in sectors such as pharma or automotive, and expects to generate almost five million euros in revenue in 2023. “That is an amazing achievement,” said the President & CEO in recognition. Maxime Sabre, who has worked for LAUDA France for more than ten years, will succeed Eric Couche as Managing Director of the subsidiary. “Eric Couche and the team at LAUDA France have made a huge contribution to LAUDA's success. I wish him all the best.”
The Dr. Rudolf Wobser Medal, which is made of real gold, was created for the occasion of the 60th company anniversary in 2016 and is awarded to individuals who have made an extraordinary contribution to the family company. Eric Couche is the first overseas employee to be honored with the medal.
Award-Übergabe in Italien: Dino Delbue, Sales Manager bei DELO, Dr. Gunther Wobser, Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter von LAUDA, Claudio Baldi, Gründer und CEO von DELO, sowie Antonio Manconi, Geschäftsführer von LAUDA Italia (v. l. n. r.)
Italian agency DELO receives LAUDA Award
LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG has awarded the LAUDA Award for exceptionally successful new agencies to the Italian technology service provider DELO Instruments S.R.L. The award was presented at the DELO headquarters in Fizzonasco, south of Milan, on October 28. President & CEO of LAUDA, Dr. Gunther Wobser, personally handed over the award to Claudio Baldi, Founder and CEO of DELO Instruments.
“In the last four years, the collaboration between LAUDA and DELO has developed beautifully in the area of battery testing for the northern Italian automotive sector,” explains Antonio Manconi, Managing Director of LAUDA Italia, who is responsible for the direct collaboration with the Italian partner. “By marketing LAUDA constant temperature equipment to reputable manufacturers of vehicles and components in Italy, DELO has been able to achieve outstanding results. Our goal is to further expand the business and to support customers in the automotive industry with optimal temperature control solutions for complex test scenarios.”
“With LAUDA Italia S.R.L. and Managing Director Antonio Manconi ,we have built up a strong organization in Italy that has quadrupled our market share to around 40 percent, since it was first founded in 2014,” adds Dr. Gunther Wobser. “DELO Instruments has been a reliable partner at our side since 2018. Thanks to the support of our international agencies, electric mobility is one of LAUDA’s fastest-growing areas of business activity. That’s why we would like to thank our new agency, DELO, for a fantastic year in 2021 with this award.”
Der neu gebaute Produktionsstandort in Terrassa, Spanien.
Celebratory inauguration of the new production site in Terrassa, Spain
The Spanish subsidiary of LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG, LAUDA Ultracool, SL, has officially inaugurated its new production site with a celebratory ceremony in Terrassa, near Barcelona. In doing so, the temperature control specialist has successfully completed its first construction project abroad – and its first greenfield construction of an entire production facility. The family company has invested around seven million euros in the new-build in Spain, and created around 4,000 m² of new production areas and almost 1,000 m² of office space on the 9,000 m² site. As a result, the Spanish subsidiary has doubled its production capacities for LAUDA Ultracool circulation chillers, to meet growing demand worldwide for energy-efficient industrial cooling. The expansion of Spanish subsidiary is strategically aligned with the ambitious Drive250 strategy project, with which the world market leader aims to more than double its revenue within five years.
Along with the workforce and the Managing Director of LAUDA Ultracool, Xavier Armengol, the festivities were attended by high-ranking representatives from Germany, including President & CEO Dr. Gunther Wobser and his father Gerhard Wobser, as well as Managing Directors Dr. Marc Stricker and Dr. Mario Englert. Regional representatives including the Mayor of Terrassa Jordi Ballart and Deputy Mayor Núria Marin, and Patrick Heinz, the Deputy Consul General of the German Consulate General in Barcelona, also took part in the event. In their speeches, Ramon Talàmas, President of the Terrassa Chamber of Commerce, and Joan Romero, Representative of the Catalonian Government and CEO of ACCIO, an organization to ensure the competitiveness of Catalonian businesses, as well as Antoni Abad, President of the CECOT Entrepreneurs’ Association, praised the contribution and commitment of the world market leader LAUDA to the burgeoning economic region of Catalonia.
“In recent years, LAUDA Ultracool has grown steadily and successfully positioned itself on the market with modern, energy-efficient circulation chillers,” said Dr. Marc Stricker, summarizing the developments of the last few years. “The new build will create urgently needed capacities for our biggest overseas subsidiary, both in production and for the further expansion of the product line. Accordingly, this important investment is perfectly in line with our Drive250 growth strategy.”
“Like in 2011, when we acquired the Spanish subsidiary, we are showing courage and investing during difficult times,” remarked Dr. Gunther Wobser during his festive speech. “That’s why it is all the more important that we as a company send a visible signal of confidence and determination. By doing so, we can write our success story together.”
Die Geschäftsführer von Beun de Ronde, Corné Reuvers und Mike Klinkenberg, gemeinsam mit Dr. Gerhard Wobser und dem Geschäftsführenden Gesellschafter von LAUDA, Dr. Gunther Wobser (v. l. n. r.)
First LAUDA agency Beun de Ronde is awarded the Dr. Rudolf Wobser Medal
The Dutch laboratory dealer Beun de Ronde B.V., a provider of scientific equipment with an impressive history going back 100 years, has been one of LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG.’s most reliable partners for decades. Since 1958, the two family companies have worked together without . Beun de Ronde was LAUDA’s first agency abroad, meaning it has been at the world market leader’s side almost from the very beginning. After the death of the two company founders Beun and de Ronde, their long-standing, trusted colleague Joop Klinkenberg took over the shares and the company management, which he later passed down to his son Mike. To honor this extraordinary and close partnership, the current Managing Director Mike Klinkenberg has been awarded the Dr. Rudolf Wobser Medal. At a celebratory dinner at the company headquarters near Amsterdam, the President & CEO of LAUDA, Dr. Gunther Wobser, presented the award in the presence of his father, Advisor and Shareholder, Dr. Gerhard Wobser, and the Managing Director of Beun de Ronde, Corné Reuvers.
Dr. Gunther Wobser handed over the medal in person. This time, the occasion was a first: “The relationship between LAUDA and Beun de Ronde is a very special one, because it was the first agency that LAUDA signed a contract with on August 15th, 1958. The collaboration goes back even further, as company founder Dr. Rudolf Wobser knew Jan de Ronde from his previous work. Especially in the early days of our company, Beun de Ronde played a significant role in our success, for which I would like to thank him on behalf of everyone involved. To this day, our partnership is the foundation of our shared economic success and can undoubtedly be regarded as a shining example of an international, neighborly collaboration between two family companies.”
The Dr. Rudolf Wobser Medal, which is made of real gold, was created for the occasion of the 60th company anniversary in 2016 and is awarded to individuals who have made an extraordinary contribution to the family company. For example, employees who have belonged to the company for over 50 years are honored with the award. In total, 16 Dr. Rudolf Wobser Medals have been awarded. Mike Klinkenberg will be the first person outside the company and outside Germany to receive this distinguished accolade.
