In 1918 Arnold Laschet (senior) set up a company in Essen (city in the Ruhr area of Germany), specialized in mechanical and electrical engineering, design of tools, fixtures, jigs, gears, devices, special machine tools, and made-to-order production. After World War II, his two sons Arnold and Guenther Laschet took over the management of his company. Since then the products, which have always been linked to the name of ARLA (abbreviation of the senior's name ArnoldLaschet), have been continually developed and distributed.

The further growth of the family-owned business led to splitting the company into two independent legal entities in 1984. At this time,Guenther Laschet and  his son Dr.-Ing. Andreas Laschet set up the company ARLA Maschinentechnik GmbH in Kuerten, a small town near Cologne. In 2002 the company moved to a new location inWipperfuerth.

The name "Maschinentechnik" stands for machine products, technical software, engineering services, and consulting.

The ARLA Maschinentechnik GmbH and its highly qualified staff aim at further developing, testing and selling their own ARLA® Machine Products (such as endworking machines & units for machining shafts and pipes, slide & table & spindle units, workholding fixtures, shift & engage levers). Due to customers' requirements, the R&D activities have included the introduction and professional use of latest CAD technology right from the beginning. Furthermore, computer simulation software (own development) is used for optimum design and testing. The cooperation with customers during every stage of development has always been one of the principal company targets to ensure high quality. ARLA presents its mechanical products at important international trade fairs: IMTS (Chicago, USA), and in Germany: EMO (Hannover), TUBE (Dusseldorf), AIRTEC (Frankfurt), AMB (Stuttgart).

Another important field of activities covers engineering services, technical software products, training courses and also softwareand hardware systems for computer simulation and virtual engineering (ARLA® Engineering). The state-of-the-art computer simulation software packages ARLA®-SIMUL and ARLA®-SIMSTAT are well-known engineering tools to calculate the dynamic behaviour (torsional vibrations) of drive systems. Typical applications are found in all rotating machinery, particularly in vehicles, ships, aircrafts, turbo machinery, and further applications referring to power transmission engineering.

To be able to meet the increasing demands made on the simulation of vibrations, a close cooperation with the ITI GmbH in Dresden started in April 1998. It is based on the simulation software SimulationX. Another important cooperation started in January 1999 with RBTS, Inc. (USA) to offer the rotordynamics software ARMD™ and the accompanying engineering services.

As ARLA is both software developer and professional user, there is always a reference to practical use and customer-near verification of this kind of computer simulation. Worldwide, a lot of customers in R&D and testing departments use the software with great success. Customer-dedicated training courses and consultancies complete the range of products and services.

Quality, reliability, and the realization of a reasonable price-performance are the primary aims of our company - and will be so in the future.

ARLA Maschinentechnik GmbH

Hansestr. 2D-51688 WipperfuerthGermany
Phone: + 49 2267 6585-0Fax: + 49 2267 6585-70

E-mail: info@arla.de

Website: www.arla-online.com