VDMA

The German Engineering Federation (VDMA ) is the trade association for the capital goods (machinery and equipment ). It represents about 3,000 mainly medium-sized member companies and is one of the most influential business associations in Germany.

History

The foundation stone for the VDMA laid the foundation of the Association of Rhine - Westphalian engineering institutions in Dusseldorf in 1890. Two years later, the Association of German engineering institutions ( VdMA ) was founded. In 1899, the Annual General Meeting decides to waive employer functions. 1916 enters the German Machine Tool Builders' Association ( VDW ) into the VdMA. Until 1918 the office moved from Dusseldorf to Berlin.

1934 adopting the Nazi regime the law to the " organic development of the German economy" and the Regulation on "Securing the Economic Group engineering " comes into force. After the war, first founded in 1945, the trade association engineering ( WVMA ). The following year, the club Bavarian engineering institutions ( VBMA ) are the Confederation of Engineering Institutions in United - Hesse ( WVMH ) and founded the engineering trade association in Berlin. On the establishment of the Association of German Associations of Mechanical Engineering Institutions ( AVDMA ) in 1947 following the 1949 re- establishment of the VDMA in Königstein im Taunus.

This is followed by the establishment of a liaison office in Bonn in 1950, the founding of the Society for the Promotion of machinery and plant mbH ( GzF ) and the engineering -Verlag GmbH (later VDMA Verlag) in 1951. 1954, the VDMA involved in the establishment of Europe Liaison Group of the European Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic and Metalworking Industries ( Orgalime ) in Brussels.

1966 pulls the VDMA headquarters in the Frankfurt district of Niederrad. In the following years a number of sub-organizations are founded: 1968 Forschungskuratorium engineering eV (FKM ), 1972 Documentation Engineering Association ( DOMA ) and German Engineering Institute ( DMI) today Maschinenbau -Institut GmbH (MBI ), 1979 Fachinformationszentrum technology.

The political and international contact will be further expanded with creation of liaison offices: 1972 in Brussels, in 1984 in Tokyo, Japan and in 1998 a new Berlin office. In 1980, the VDMA renames German association of machine-building institutions in the Association of German Machinery and Plant. The abbreviation VDMA remains the same.

The pulse Foundation is founded in 1992. 1998 following the establishment of the VDMA Association for the Promotion and Innovation Ltd. ( VFI).

Organization

The VDMA has a principal place of business leadership, based in Frankfurt am Main as well as political representative offices in Brussels and Berlin. The Association has a volunteer president and vice president as well as board and narrower Board. The work will take place at the content level in 38 professional associations as well as at the regional level in the regional associations. Various activities and services for members are hived in service companies, foundations and research organizations.

The activities are grouped into focusing on:

  • Work and education
  • Research and Innovation
  • Management and Law
  • Markets and economy
  • Policies and initiatives
  • Technology and Environment

Campaigns

2011, the VDMA was launched nationwide campaign BlueCompetence. To date, 37 organizations and 345 companies have already joined the initiative. The participation of companies and entire engineering areas creates a vibrant, broad-based platform for networking and sustainable production technologies. Each partner company is his lasting contribution on the basis of facts and individual success stories that are communicated on the Blue Competence platform and to intensify the exchange of ideas to future-proof processes, technologies and designs. Resource conservation and environmental orientation are also growth drivers for the export efforts and expression of technology leadership.

2009 (VDS ) called trade association fittings together with the sanitary industry forum ( IFS) and the Association of German sanitary industry, the Blue Responsibility initiative in the VDMA. The aim of the initiative is to raise public awareness of sustainable management of water resources as well as to learn about weaknesses in the domestic and commercial water use. Focus is placed on issues such as drinking water hygiene, the use of environmentally friendly materials, innovative products and technologies, and a responsible use of water resources at the center.

At Blue Responsibility currently involved 24 leading companies in the German sanitary industry. Spokesman for the initiative are Rupprecht Kemper (CEO Gebr Kemper GmbH & Co. KG Metalworks and chairman of the trade association ), Hartmut Dalheimer (Managing Keuco GmbH & Co. KG, President Industry Forum sanitary ) and Wolfgang Burchard (Managing Director VDMA fittings).

President

Association of German engineering institutions

Economic group engineering

Trade association engineering Dusseldorf

Engineering Business Association in Hesse

Federation of Engineering Institutions of Württemberg -Baden

Bavarian club Engineering Institutions

Association of German engineering institutions e.V.

Association of German Machinery and Plant e.V.

Publications

  • FKM guideline - computational stress analysis for mechanical parts.
  • VDMA 66412 - Collection of key business data for the area of ​​production control and monitoring.
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