Company Profile

Manz AG – passion for efficiency.

Manz AG in Reutlingen, Germany, is a leading global high-tech equipment manufacturer. Over the past few years, the company has developed from an automation specialist to a provider of integrated system solutions for the production of crystalline silicon solar cells and thin-film solar modules, as well as the manufacturing of flat panel displays. A new business area is the development and manufacture of production systems for lithium-ion batteries.

The group, established in 1987, is headed by company founder Dieter Manz and has been publicly listed in Germany since 2006. Manz operates production facilities in Germany, China, Taiwan, Slovakia and Hungary. In addition, it has sales and service branches in the United States, South Korea and India. At the end of March 2011, Manz AG had around 1,900 employees, including 800 in Asia. Sales in the last business year exceeded 180 million euros.

Driven by the company’s new slogan, “passion for efficiency”, Manz engineers promise to provide their customers from various future key industries with evermore efficient manufacturing systems. Therefore, Manz is continuously optimising its product portfolio. The aim is to achieve highly reliable production processes on the customer side while steadily improving performance parameters for products manufactured on Manz equipment. This makes the Manz Group an important driver of innovation, helping to achieve breakthroughs in key technologies of our times, such as sustainable power generation, displays for global communication needs and e-mobility. Manz focuses its R&D efforts on production systems for the photovoltaics industry, flat panel displays and lithium-ion batteries. Research facilities are located in Germany, Taiwan and Israel.

In the summer of 2010, Manz signed a cooperation agreement with Wuerth Solar, Schwaebisch Hall, Germany, that gives Manz access to exclusive know-how in CIGS thin-film technology. CIGS modules are currently considered the most efficient on the market. Thanks to the agreement, Manz is the first manufacturer in the world offering a turnkey production line for CIGS solar modules that can be operated profitably today.

Manz AG has its roots in Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany, historically one of the cradle regions of German engineering and today one of the world’s leading high-tech regions. Manz employs people from 27 countries and is active in all the important growth markets around the world. With the opening of a new production facility in Suzhou, China, planned for end of 2011, Manz will be able to meet current market trends even more effectively.

As part of its commitment to corporate social responsibility, Manz supports a project called “Providing a future – metal workshop in Ethiopia”. This initiative offers vocational training to young people in Ethiopia.

Product Range

  • Assembly line performing assembly of machine parts
  • 装配系统
  • Assembly unit: Assembly plants, compact
  • 自动化李ne handling small components
  • 自动化李ne performing loading aplication
  • 自动化李ne performing product packing application
  • 自动化李ne used for lab automation
  • 自动化李ne used for LCD production
  • 自动化李ne used in general industry application
  • 自动化李ne used in the cosmetic and pharamaceutical industry
  • 自动化李ne used in the photovoltaic industry
  • 自动化李ne: Complete production cells
  • 自动化李ne: Fully automated machinery
  • 自动化李ne: Large scale factory automotion line
  • 自动化李ne: Multi-station automation line
  • 自动化李ne: Robot cells
  • 自动化李ne: Single-station automation unit
  • 自动化李ne: Testing and measuring station
  • 自动化李ne: Turnkey automation line
  • 复样ls: Multi-axis PC controller
  • 复样ls: PC based automation
  • 复样ls: PC based control system
  • 柔性机器人单元
  • Gripper
  • Gripper finger
  • Gripper: 3-Finger gripper
  • Gripper: Magnetic gripper
  • Gripper: Parallel gripper
  • Gripper: Parallel gripper pneumatic
  • Gripper: Swivel gripper
  • Handling and assembly unit used in clean room area
  • Handling and assembly unit used in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry
  • Handling and assembly unit used in the photovoltaic industry
  • Handling unit: Automatic loading and unloading
  • Handling unit: Fully automatic reloading cell
  • Handling unit: Infeed and outfeed system
  • Handling unit: Inserting equipment
  • Handling unit: Loading and unloading processing plants
  • Handling unit: Loading equipment
  • Handling unit: Stack to carrier
  • Handling unit: Unloading equipment
  • Handling: Feeding unit
  • Industrial PC workstation
  • Manipulators
  • Motor drive: Digital servo drive
  • Motor drive: Servo drive
  • Packaging: Packing machine
  • Packaging: Testing, control and packaging unit
  • Positioning unit
  • 机器人用于一般工业应用
  • Robot used in clean room area
  • Robot used in the electronic industry
  • Robot: 6-axis robot
  • Robot: Cartesian robot
  • Robot: High precision robot
  • Robot: High speed arm robot
  • Robot: Industrial robot
  • Robot: Robot for special applications
  • Robot: Vision-guided industrial robot
  • Robots: Cleanroom robot
  • Servo amplifier
  • Software: Assembly control
  • Software: Automatic engineering
  • Software: Machine vision
  • Software: Measurement
  • Software: Process control
  • Software: Quality control
  • Software: Quality optimization
  • Software: Visualisation