Update on SMTconnect 2024

We probably weren’t the only ones who had to dig a hole in the cellar to find our level of satisfaction. The SMTconnect will be discontinued as from 2025.

We were at the SMTconnect 2024

…not just as visitors, but as exhibitors! Find out what that was like in our cheer & joy column.

That’s unheard of – ads on a website!

This is a novelty for us. We are (indirectly) advertising for a supplier whose Jet Valve we are integrating into our machine on customer request. The exact wording can be found in our cheer & joy column.

Unexpected, but in a nice way

No, the weather at productronica 2023 in Munich really wasn’t nice, but the trade fair itself was. And that was a bigger surprise for us than sunshine in November. Read more in our cheer & joy column.

Unfortunately we were not disappointed

In the second week of May 2023, we set off to Nuremberg – with a small team, a small booth and very low hopes – to exhibit at our leading trade fair SMTconnect. And unfortunately, our extremely low expectations were not disappointed. Read more about this in our whining column.

Hello! Anyone still alive here?

Well, *COUGH* it’s already 2023 and no one has noticed. To answer the question: Yes, as far as we can tell, we are still alive and well and the company is doing well as well, considering the circumstances. What circumstances? Well, one of the main reasons why nothing happened here in the last weeks (well, months…) was that we continue to live – as the old Chinese curse already knew – in interesting times.

Supply chains continue to be well stretched, the general outlook rather gloomy, employees frequently sick and new colleagues quite hard to find. In the meantime, however, our business is going quite well, so there is simply not enough time for cultivated boredom. And without boredom there will be no updates on this page.

At least the topic of boredom will come up again soon, namely when we exhibit again at the SMT-Connect in Nuremberg from May 9 to 11. Come by and be bored with us – this is supposed to be very relaxing…

It’s 2022 now! And everything is different.

Well, that was fast. Soon, 2022 will celebrate its half-time and a lot has changed. Not for the better, of course, but at least it has changed. The wish of so many that this stupid pandemic should no longer dominate the news has largely been fulfilled. Yay! Now, a real, full blown war is raging right in our backyard, complete with sanctions, energy shortages, once more improved supply chain problems and skyrocketing inflation. Who wouldn’t prefer that to the imposition of having to wear masks?

So to make sure our year 2022 doesn’t remain all too uneventful (and to give us a few more reasons to complain as well) we decided (in 2019, to be exact) to send no less than three machines and five people to exhibit at SMTconnect 2022 in Nuremberg. How that turned out, can be read here.

Soon it will be 2022! Everything remains different!

Oh yes – the only constant is change. What this ancient slogan lacks in creativity, it makes up for in topicality. After we believed in the summer of 2021 that the tiresome topic of the pandemic would soon be history, the hopeful  spring breeze turned out to be a fluid-dynamic harbinger of the approaching fourth wave in fall.

But because our staff, which is now almost 100% vaccinated, is no longer seriously impressed by such minor inconveniences, we urgently needed a global supply chain crisis on top of all – just so that no one in the manufacturing industry could complain that business was going too easily at the moment.

Fortunately, we are a small company that has never been able to afford modern trends like “just in time”, nor have we ever wanted to. That’s why our warehouses are, well, not completely empty yet. We traditionally strive to provide the best service to our customers and usually don’t let adverse circumstances stop us. If the customer’s need is great enough, we do not hesitate to relieve one of our demo machines of the spare part that is currently not available otherwise.

In the midst of this – why not call it what it is – clusterfuck, we have decided to ride out the fourth wave in full and present ourselves at Productronica 2021. Anyone who was interested and has the courage to do so was welcome to visit us there – and surprisingly many did! If you want to know what we think of the whole ordeal, be our guest.

Never before in AMADYNE’s 20-year history have times been as interesting as they were in 2020/21, and so far we have managed everything with some dignity. We will continue to do so, even though we – like our customers – are certainly longing for a few exceptionally boring months.

Depending on external circumstances, we may not always be able to or allowed to make personal visits to your premises, but even then we still have plenty of opportunities to address your problems, questions and wishes. Let’s just talk about it. With pleasure also in a video conference.

If you need support, please contact us at any time via:

• The Chat system on the machines or
• An Email to sos@amadyne.net or
• by phone via help desk number +49 7223 407 989 9

In any case we will get back to you instantly.