“The growth last year in our revenue and our profit was positively influenced by several factors: primarily comprehensive automation projects, i.e. the integration of hardware and software technologies. At the same time, we increased the share of corporate projects where we deployed our solution at multiple branches of one company worldwide, helping customers to standardise their processes. We can also see a growing trend towards cloud services,” says Aimtec’s Chairman of the Board Roman Žák of the preliminary results. In 2019, Aimtec launched its new cloud services platform – aimtec.cloud and completed the first SAP S4/HANA deployment.
Aimtec has always been known for its expertise in automotive, which remains a key industry for the company. Last year, for example, it completed a project for Alfmeier Präzision in the USA and Mexico, ensuring that Aimtec solutions will be providing warehouse logistics at every branch of this German company.
Germany is, moreover, a key market for Aimtec. It intensified its activities there in 2019 and is planning to continue them this year as well, as evidenced by its ongoing projects for BOS, Eissmann Group Automotive, Fehrer Automotive and more. “The German market is very important to us, and we aim to make good use of our automotive experience here in the future as well. Our activities focus on mid-size companies, helping them to digitalise and automate their manufacturing and logistics,” Žák notes.
However, Aimtec is aiding a growing assortment of companies from other fields with their digital transformations as well. At these, the company puts its automotive experience and know-how to work, for example when ensuring the traceability of manufacturing parameters and materials used. This has brought it new customers from such areas as aviation and the manufacturing of medical technologies and packaging materials, and it expects the trend of Industry 4.0 breaking through into new segments to continue in 2020. According to Aimtec, digitalisation can radically increase a company’s competitiveness.
2019 was also a year of new technologies for Aimtec. Within its #AimtecLab platform, in which it explores the latest trends, the company devoted its energies to augmented and virtual reality, Location Based Services, machine learning and more. It won the Impuls Logistika award for a project in which it ensured quality control using augmented reality. New trends are also in the spotlight at the company’s AIMagazine content portal, launched last July.
At the turn of this year, a change of premises awaited Aimtec. Its new seat reflects its status as a modern technology company with global reach and enables better cooperation on comprehensive digitalisation projects worldwide. Yet despite its widening circle of activities, the company aims to grow organically so that it can provide quality performance, share internal know-how and maintain its company culture into the future. Roughly two hundred employees continue to work out of Pilsen to care for its customers. And its CSR is equally stable – Aimtec provides long-term support to e.g. the Alzheimer's foundation, the Roman Kreuziger Cycling Academy and the Charles University Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen.
“In the year before us, we aim to continue our work on comprehensive projects for digitalising processes and integrating systems and technologies. We do this because we believe that digitalisation investments at manufacturing and logistics companies are one way to be and stay competitive, while also reducing dependence on economic cycles,” says Žák of the company’s plans.