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EWAB has been the pioneer in chain based conveying technology.
Four major EWAB inventions are true milestones in the development of flow technology; the EWAB Chain in 1970, the Serpentine (a.k.a. Alpine) in 1970, the Palletised Conveyor in 1976 and the Highway/ Satellite concept 1983.
These inventions and especially the palletised conveyor (one piece flow) and the Highway/Satellite concept (multiple one-piece-flows) was developed for the need of productivity, throughput and lean manufacturing and are today the hart of conveying automation for lean manufacturing
- 1970 EWAB Sweden
- 1970 Invents the EWAB Chain
- 1970 Invents the Serpentine (a.k.a. Alpine)
- 1970 Pioneer high speed production in the glass bottle manufacturing
- 1972 Pioneer plastic chain conveyors in automotive industry
- 1973 Pioneer flexible production in paint industry
- 1973 Pioneer buffers and high speed production in coffee industry
- 1975 EWAB chain becomes world standard (a.k.a. Rex 1700 series)
- 1975 Pioneer high speed production in paper tissue industry
- 1975 EWAB Switzerland
- 1976 Pioneer pallet conveyor design in automotive industry
- 1978 Invents the EWAB Pallet System
- 1977 First PLC control system
- 1978 Focus on the automotive industry
- 1980 EWAB Germany
- 1981 EWAB Italy
- 1983 EWAB USA
- 1983 Decentralized control system concept
- 1983 Invents the Highway / Satellite concept
- 1984 Invents the flexible/multiple flow principles
- 1984 Electronic coding / RF tags
- 1985 Invents the EWAB Carrier System 900
- 1985 Invents the Buffer Brake
- 1986 Meeting with E. Goldratt
- 1986 EWAB UK
- 1989 Washing machine integration
- 1989 Build test lab facility to study chain and conveyor designs.
- 1990 Invents the No Noise chain
- 1990 EWAB France
- 1990 EWAB Spain
- 1991 Meeting with J. Juran
- 1991 Gantry integration
- 1991 Factory flow simulation
- 1994 Invents the Sequra chain
- 1995 CE marking of all EWAB systems
- 1995 Robot integration
- 1996 ISO 9001
- 1997 First Simultaneous Engineering Contract
- 1997 Invents loading of vertical turning machines
- 1998 Key supplier in world engine program
- 1999 Key supplier in world transmission program
- 2000 Ford Q1 status
- 2001 Preprogrammed modular control system
- 2003 Development of Carrier System 200
- 2005 Invents the heavy duty Carrier System 2000
- 2006 Remote web camera monitoring for Robot Cells
- 2006 Part traceability and interfacing to SAP
- 2007 Office monitoring of production line
- 2008 Drag and Drop Robot cell
- 2009 EWAB Argentina
- 2009 EWAB Germany South
