ENGLISH VON AR­DENNE WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO. VON AR­DENNE de­vel­ops and man­u­fac­tures in­dus­trial equip­ment for vac­uum coat­ings on ma­te­ri­als such as glass, wafers, metal strip and poly­mer films. These coat­ings give the sur­faces new func­tional prop­er­ties and can be be­tween one nanome­ter and a few mi­crom­e­ters thin, de­pend­ing on the ap­pli­ca­tion. Our cus­tomers use these ma­te­ri­als to make high-qual­ity prod­ucts such as ar­chi­tec­tural glass, dis­plays for smart­phones and touch screens, so­lar mod­ules and heat pro­tec­tion foil for au­to­mo­tive glass. We sup­ply our cus­tomers with tech­no­log­i­cally so­phis­ti­cated vac­uum coat­ing sys­tems, ex­ten­sive ex­per­tise and global ser­vice. The key com­po­nents are de­vel­oped and man­u­fac­tured by VON AR­DENNE it­self. Sys­tems and com­po­nents pro­vided by VON AR­DENNE make a valu­able con­tri­bu­tion to pro­tect­ing the en­vi­ron­ment. They are vi­tal for the man­u­fac­tur­ing of prod­ucts that help de­crease en­ergy con­sump­tion or gen­er­ate en­ergy from re­new­able re­sources. VON AR­DENNE was founded in 1991 as a spin-off of the Man­fred von Ar­denne Re­search In­sti­tute in Dres­den. The tech­no­log­i­cal prin­ci­ples and com­po­nents which are vi­tal to our cur­rent suc­cess had been de­vel­oped and steadily im­proved by this in­sti­tute since 1955. Read more about our company history. Over 50 years of ex­pe­ri­ence with elec­tron beam processes and more than 40 years of com­pe­tence in mag­netron tech­nol­ogy make VON AR­DENNE a lead­ing provider of glass coat­ing sys­tems and equip­ment for thin-film pho­to­voltaics. This technology competence is used in all our prod­ucts and guar­an­tees that our cus­tomers re­ceive re­li­able sys­tems for their pro­duc­tion. VON AR­DENNE re­lies on an international network with sub­sidiaries in China, Malaysia, Viet­nam, Japan and the USA, in ad­di­tion to our head­quar­ters in Dres­den, Ger­many. At VON AR­DENNE, we ad­here strictly to the val­ues which pro­vided the ba­sis for the work of Man­fred von Ar­denne - sci­en­tific metic­u­lous­ness and cu­rios­ity, the con­stant search for in­no­v­a­tive tech­ni­cal so­lu­tions, qual­ity aware­ness, sus­tain­able ac­tiv­ity and re­li­a­bil­ity. EX­EC­U­TIVE MAN­AGE­MENT & COM­PANY QUAL­ITY MAN­AGE­MENT SO­CIAL COM­MIT­MENT OB­SER­VA­TORY SHORT PROFILE VON ARDENNE [PDF] EX­EC­U­TIVE MAN­AGE­MENT & COM­PANY Klaus Löf­fler and Pia von Ar­denne-Licht­en­berg VON ARDENNE GROUP Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment: Pia von Ar­denne-Licht­en­berg, Klaus Löf­fler Head­quar­ters: Am Hah­n­weg 8 | 01328 Dres­den | Ger­many Es­tab­lished: in 1991 as spin-off of the for­mer Man­fred von Ar­denne Re­search In­sti­tute Share­hold­ers: 100 % von Ar­denne fam­i­lies QUAL­ITY MAN­AGE­MENT "Power lies in Quality" - Friedrich Ni­et­zsche For VON AR­DENNE, qual­ity means that our prod­ucts are al­ways re­li­able while us­ing in­no­v­a­tive and ef­fi­cient tech­nol­ogy. We com­mit to meet­ing the ex­pec­ta­tions of our cus­tomers and to their full sat­is­fac­tion through­out the life­time of each prod­uct. We con­sider con­tin­u­ous im­prove­ment a task for every­one and a process of change, which en­com­passes all busi­ness ar­eas of our sup­pli­ers. As a re­sult, we can guar­an­tee the ex­cel­lent qual­ity of our prod­uct port­fo­lio: coat­ing equip­ment, up­grades, spare parts and ser­vice. VON ARDENNE QUALITY MANAGEMENT Phone: +49 351 2637 9040 E-mail: quality@vonardenne.biz Long-Term Part­ner­ship En­sures Mu­tual Suc­cess We sup­port our cus­tomers on their way to growth and help them reach their am­bi­tious goals. Be­cause our cus­tomers' suc­cess is our suc­cess! There­fore, we are at your side - from the first con­sul­ta­tion to af­ter sales ser­vice. To­gether with you, we will strive for the best so­lu­tions in or­der to meet the re­quire­ments of the mar­ket. Our ex­per­tise, our ad­vanced tech­nolo­gies and our abil­ity to re­act quickly and re­li­ably will en­sure our mu­tual suc­cess. You can rely on: the pro­fi­ciency and the cus­tomer-ori­ented qual­ity aware­ness of our employees the ex­pe­ri­ence with the de­vel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing of com­po­nents of our suppliers the as­sess­ment of the qual­ity of our prod­ucts by our customers CERTIFICATE ISO 9001:2015 IQNET CERTIFICATE ISO 9001:2015 Ex­cep­tional Qual­ity VON AR­DENNE re­ceived the First So­lar NOVA Award 2015 as Best in Class Sup­plier. HOW QUALITY MANAGEMENT WORKS AT VON ARDENNE We do not just fo­cus on de­tect­ing and cor­rect­ing de­fects within the man­u­fac­tur­ing process. First and fore­most, it is our aim to iden­tify prob­lems be­fore they oc­cur. In or­der to achieve that, we have in­te­grated QM meth­ods into the en­tire value chain - from gath­er­ing cus­tomer re­quire­ments, to prod­uct plan­ning and de­vel­op­ment to com­mis­sion­ing and af­ter sales ser­vice. We make sure that our qual­ity stan­dards are in­cor­po­rated into our work and our prod­ucts by a close co­op­er­a­tion through­out all de­part­ments true to the motto: "Solutions are more important than problems." OUR FOCUS IN QUALITY MANAGEMENT: We ap­ply es­tab­lished meth­ods, not only to en­sure the qual­ity of our prod­ucts and ser­vices, but to in­crease it con­tin­u­ously. We fo­cus mainly on: Risk eval­u­a­tion Con­sis­tant change man­age­ment Qual­i­fi­ca­tion and de­vel­op­ment of sup­pli­ers Qual­ity agree­ments with sup­pli­ers Prod­uct ac­cep­tance and in­spec­tion Solv­ing prob­lems ac­cord­ing to the 8D method Sus­tain­able er­ror and com­plaint man­age­ment The lessons learned method/con­tin­u­ous im­prove­ment process (CIP) SO­CIAL COM­MIT­MENT Donations & Sponsoring Be­ing a com­pany based in Sax­ony, VON AR­DENNE feels com­mit­ted to this re­gion and its peo­ple. We ex­press our com­mit­ment by get­ting in­volved in ed­u­ca­tion, sci­ence, re­search, en­vi­ron­ment pro­jects, sports and cul­tural ac­tiv­i­ties. Apart from that, we sup­port the pro­jects, clubs and as­so­ci­a­tions that our em­ploy­ees are en­gaged in within their com­mu­ni­ties. We sup­port: Elbhangfest Dresden city festival Chinese Pavilion Dresden Gymnasium Dresden-Buehlau high school Mittelschule Weissig secondary school KITA am Hochwald kindergarten Physics awards at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Reconstruction of the Lingnerschloss mansion MEM­BER­SHIPS There are good rea­sons to get in­volved in dif­fer­ent in­sti­tu­tions as an ac­tive mem­ber or as a part­ner. These in­sti­tu­tions are plat­forms for pre­sen­ta­tions and pub­li­ca­tions as well as for shar­ing knowl­edge in in­ter­est­ing fields. With the help of these plat­forms, our ex­perts get the chance to cre­ate net­works, to dis­cuss cer­tain prob­lems or to work on spe­cific top­ics to­gether with other in­sti­tu­tions and as­so­ci­a­tions. AIM­CAL - As­so­ci­a­tion of In­dus­trial Met­al­iz­ers, Coaters and Lam­i­na­tors The Ger­man As­so­ci­a­tion of Small and Medium Sized Busi­nesses (BVMW) Eu­ro­pean So­ci­ety of Thin Films (EFDS) Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (IHK) Net­work of Com­pe­tence of In­dus­trial Plasma Sur­face Tech­nol­ogy (IN­PLAS) Saxon Re­gional Con­ser­va­tion Foun­da­tion PLASMA Ger­many So­ci­ety of Vac­uum Coaters (SVC) Sil­i­con Sax­ony e.V. OB­SER­VA­TORY "I could have be­come an as­tronomer", Man­fred von Ar­denne said when he re­mem­bered his en­thu­si­asm for as­tron­omy as a boy. When he was in school, he made tele­scopes that were up to two me­ters long out of spec­ta­cle lenses, cur­tain rods and wood from crates. With those tele­scopes, he ob­served moon craters, sunspots, phases of Venus and Jupiter. All his life, he kept an in­ter­est in as­tron­omy. In 1956, one year af­ter he had ar­rived in Dres­den, Man­fred von Ar­denne had an ob­ser­va­tory built on the premises of his re­search in­sti­tute. A Zeiss re­fract­ing tele­scope with a di­am­e­ter of 200 mil­lime­ters and a fo­cal length of 3,000 mil­lime­ters was in­stalled into the ob­ser­va­tory. Man­fred von Ar­denne had bought this rare spec­i­men of op­ti­cal and fine me­chan­i­cal crafts­man­ship, which was built be­tween 1909 and 1911. It is one of only six of its kind. Af­ter the build­ing and the re­frac­tory tele­scope had been re­stored, the ob­ser­va­tory was re­opened in 2007 on the oc­ca­sion of Man­fred von Ar­dennes 100th birth­day and was opened to the pub­lic. If you look through this tele­scope, you might even spot the as­ter­oid (4849 = 1936 QV), which was dis­cov­ered in 1936 and named af­ter Man­fred von Ar­denne in honor of his achieve­ments. GO TO "MANFRED VON ARDENNE" OBSERVATORY LEGAL INFORMATION PRIVACY STATEMENT © VON ARDENNE GMBH 2021