Company history

 

2021

Teufel Prototypen has increased its production area in the "Additive Manufacturing" area by several hundred square meters and purchased another SLS system from EOS.
This helps the company to further increase production capacities in this area and shorten delivery times while maintaining the same quality.

2020

The worldwide rampant Covid-19 pandemic also has a major impact on TEUFEL prototypes. Although we can keep our production running stably, we are also affected by the restrictive infection protection measures.

However, we are making our contribution to coping with the pandemic, supplying several hundred face shields free of charge to aid organizations, and designing our own mask holder to relieve the ears, which we ourselves sell in large numbers as an injection-molded article.

2019

The tooling area is growing and with it the requirements. That is why we put another injection molding machine with a robot system from Arburg into operation and in the tool shop with the Makino EDAF3 one of the most modern and precise die-sinking EDM machines in this segment.
Our own servers have also been upgraded on a regular basis and are now equipped for the new security regulations. We still rely on an in-house solution and not on cloud services.

 

2018

In line with our motto "creating the future", we are the first service provider worldwide to offer the AKF process. This means that individual parts and small series can be produced additively, layer by layer, from original injection molding granulate.

2017

A CNC-controlled 3D coordinate measuring machine ensures a further quality jump in TEUFEL quality. The improved structural temperature compensation ensures accurate measurement results over a wider temperature range.

2016

With the acquisition of a robot-supported CNC machining center, TEUFEL Prototypen is entering the unmanned 24-hour production in the area of ​​CNC production. In automated operation, milling parts and injection molding tools can now be produced almost 24 hours a day at 360 workdays per year in the highest TEUFEL quality.

2015

With a further production machine in the field of laser sintering prototypes TEUFEL expanded again the capacities in Rapid Prototyping. The P396 of EOS also set new standards in accuracy and precision. In addition, all of our laser RP machines are now centrally cooled to ensure optimum recovery .

Dennis Böhm became CEO of TEUFEL Prototypen GmbH .

2013

TEUFEL Prototypen as the first prototyping company brought an app on the market that can be queried with the delivery times for our services in the live system .

2012

With investments of around 1 million Euro TEUFEL continued the investings of the division " Rapid Tooling ". So a fourth 5-axis milling center of Hermle , a new wire EDM of the company Makino and an EDM machine from Zimmer & Kreim was procured .

2009

Since the injection molding tool production is steadily increasing TEUFEL built a fully automated and computerized high bay warehouse to accommodate the injection molds and granules for sampling .

Another injection molding machine with an automated handling system of Arburg is purchased in order to organize the growing small series production economically.

2009

Already in 2009 an environmentally friendly building climate system was built. Thus, the geothermal technology for environmentally friendly air-conditioning of production halls was introduced by TEUFEL Prototypen.

All energy-intensive machines are connected to the energy recovery of their waste heat to the " TP Energy - cycle ". This ensures that the waste heat of equipment (eg, compressors , injection molding machines ) is not lost , but is supplied to the power circuit.

2008

The now bursting production area has been extended by an additional production hall of around 1000 square meters of production space.

2006

This year, the first laser sintering system is used by TEUFEL Prototypen in production to produce plastic parts out of material polyamide in the solid imaging process "overnight".

Purchase of the second injection molding machine, an ENGEL victory 55 electric.

Thomas Teufel took over the management of the TEUFEL Prototypen GmbH.

2005

The first injection molding machine is purchased from TEUFEL Prototypen to sampled the more numerous prototypes and pre-production tools in the production.

2004

The software landscape is fundamentally redesigned at TEUFEL Prototypen early in the year of 2004. So numerous individual software solutions for order processing , personnel management and production are controlled now by an integrated PPS / ERP system replacement. This PPS system is managing and displaying all the processes of the company. This guarantees a high degree of traceability and process security.

2001

A few years later two more ultra-modern SLA systems are purchased by TEUFEL Prototypen. The list price of these two systems at the time was around
DM 2 million .

2000

 

Commissioning of the first HSC milling machine of the company DIGMA .
Machining of hardened tool steel to HRC 63 is possible now .

1999

In the early days of 5-axis machining TEUFEL Prototypen invested in this technology. So two ultramodern milling centers of Hermle were bought with 30-station tool changer .

1998

Already in 1998 the first SLA system was purchased of the manufacturer 3D Systems. Now it was possible to build layer-by-layer parts "overnight". The master patterns for vacuum casting molds were no longer milled as early as this time from the solid , but build using the SLA technology.

1996

In 1996, a piece of land was purchased on the B10 in Unterfahlheim with over 6000m² base area to build a two-storey production and administration building with about 1500m² production area .

1989

Introduction of the first CAD / CAM workstationof. MCAD, later CIMATRON. Four more will follow in the coming years .

 

1986

The sole proprietorship is growing rapidly and only a year later it is converted toTEUFEL Prototypen GmbH. The tiny "basement workshop" was left , and the now five employees moved with their machines to Unterfahlheim in a just disused railway station.

1985

Karl Heinz Teufel founded the sole proprietorship "TEUFEL Prototypen" in the basement of a family home in Neu-Ulm / Burlafingen. With his son, two employees and two 3-axis milling machines milled parts and prototypes are conventionally milled from the solid, and then glued together.