Recognition for all award winners came from Baden-Württemberg’s Minister President Winfried Kretschmann at the digitally conducted award ceremony. For in addition to FiMAB GmbH & Co. KG from Neubulach (Calw district), the companies Solavinea GmbH and Wildbakers GbR also received awards. FIMAB received the prize of the trade of the cooperative financial group Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken, also endowed with 20,000 euros, for the development of the online configurator ARMARiO for the individual production of switch cabinets. Size, material, color, prefabricated perforation – the customer can configure the control cabinet he needs himself on the computer and receive the finished product within ten working days. In doing so, FiMAB implements millimeter-precise and standardized series production of customizable control cabinets in batch size 1. Dr. Roman Glaser, President of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association (BWGV), in his laudatory speech: “In Baden-Württemberg, we have traditionally acted on the conviction that innovative strength is a decisive factor for the competitiveness and thus future viability of companies in global competition. That’s why the southwest has been one of the leading innovation regions in Europe for decades.”
FiMAB Managing Director Markus Fiedler describes the path to his innovation in an interview with IHK Magazine: “In 2018, I was able to visit Silicon Valley during a trip to the USA and was inspired by the prevailing trends there: Products are gradually transforming into services, and conventional hardware functions are increasingly being taken over by software solutions. This is also what we wanted to achieve with our configurator: low-cost series production with batch size 1.” Fiedler when asked about his company philosophy: “I want to offer my employees meaningful employment and good development prospects.”

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