# Scheidt & Bachmann

Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH is a German family-owned company, based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. The company has four business divisions and is represented internationally by numerous subsidiaries and partners in around 50 countries. The company provides railway signalling systems, solutions for parking management and fuel or energy retail systems as well as systems for tickets for public transport.
Scheidt & Bachmann was founded in 1872 and has its own production plants where a great amount of products are manufactured in-house.

## History

Friedrich Scheidt and Carl Bachmann founded Scheidt & Bachmann in Mönchengladbach in 1872, initially manufacturing steam engines and textile manufacturing equipment. At the end of the 1870s, production expanded to create mechanical signals for railroad systems which lead to the foundation of the first business division: Signalling Systems.In 1896, Scheidt & Bachmann was granted its first patent for a "drive device for barriers". In 1932, it took advantage of the favourable market situation, and expanded into the manufacture of tank systems and petrol pumps.
By 1966, the company began designing and producing systems for multi-storey car parks, launching its parking management division and incorporating emerging microprocessor technology. Around the same time, Scheidt & Bachmann developed parking fee-collection systems featuring barriers at parking lot entrances, where users could obtain magnetic tickets or use credit cards to enter and pay at self-service or staffed cashier stations, with fees calculated upon exit. In 1978 the Fare Collection Systems division was established.
Over the years, the company has become a system supplier of intelligent mobility solutions and has been able to expand its market share. In 1995, the first subsidiaries were set up in the USA and Slovakia. Numerous other subsidiaries were established worldwide in the years that followed. In 2017, Scheidt & Bachmann began to offer cloud solutions, because faster data lines made cloud-bass systems feasible.
In 2022 the company celebrated its 150th anniversary. The expansion of cloud-based systems is planned for the future. The topic of IoT (Internet of Things) will also play a role.

## Business Divisions

Scheidt & Bachmann now has four business divisions:
* Signalling Systems
* Parking Solutions
* Energy Retail Solutions (former Fuel Retail Solutions)
* Fare Collection Systems

## Products

Scheidt & Bachmann's Signalling Systems division offers a wide range of products and services for railway infrastructure. These include digital interlockings and level crossing technology. Signalling Systems supplies a training system for operating and interlocking simulation, as well as operations management and information systems for local and long-distance transport.
The Parking Solutions dividsion develops hardware and software for parking facilities. Its hardware includes barriers, pay-on-foot machines, monitoring devices and cameras. In the software field, the Parking Solutions business unit offers applications for parking space management and car park administration, as well as smart payment systems.
The Energy Retail Solutions division focuses on solutions for petrol station and charging station management. These solutions cover four areas: sell (at indoor and outdoor sales points and unmanned stations), manage (planning, control and operation), link (link products) and care (service and training).
Scheidt & Bachmann's Fare Collections Systems division focuses on public transport. The division offers account-based ticketing, fare collection devices and data management solutions, as well as services for its devices and systems.

## Subsidiaries

Scheidt & Bachmann now has numerous subsidiaries in many countries around the world. This includes, among others: Slovakia, USA, Tunisia, Canada, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Sweden and Spain.