QUALIMATEST SA (QMT) was established in March 7, 1989 by Luc Hänny, Olivier Audemars and Etienne David. As early as 1990, QMT chose technology from National Instruments for product development. Michele Iarocci currently Technical Manager, developed the first software in LabVIEW . The first vision system 1991 Multi Micro developed to characterize an automatic microdurometer to watch components.
In 1997, Ivan Meissner took over the management of the company has a staff of seven employees and a turnover of 1.4 million. The company's development in the industrial image processing was intensified and a marketing strategy and execution of turnkey system was set up. QMT is a system integrator in vision and automation.
To continue its development, QMT has continued its activities in Switzerland in 1999 expanded the German workforce of the company reached 10 employees in 2000 and the turnover exceeds 2,000,000.
QMT in 2001 became a preferred partner of National Instruments to systems design integration of its products. Indeed QMT was "promoted the unique title in Switzerland Select Integrator "(world) .QMT has joined the selected small group of companies at this level in the world.
Continue its growth while customer satisfaction QMT must change its structure and organization. This process began in 2003 with the certification of the quality of the company in the years 2005 and 2006 due to the complete reorganization of society it continues to adapt the process of realization of complex systems in shorter periods. This work has set up a business in 4 services (engineering, project management, sales and marketing, and management) allows you to work in teams on projects. To close this process, an efficient system of project management and resources ( Genius Project ) was established.
Systems integration round, QMT began developing and marketing products based on industrial vision for the watch industry , industrial automation and medical technology .
QMT introduced in 2007, the first version of its image processing platform Vision Inspector QMT is the synthesis of 15 years of corporate experience in this field. The Watch Tester and VidéoBalisomètre were the watchmaking industry at the EPHJ and presented Congress 2007 time measurement . The QMTInspect-R , presented a sorting machine of high speed parts especially for the automotive industry to SIAMS and Lounges 2008 SIMODEC.
The strength of the company grew to 15 employees at the end of 2008 and sales have more than 3.5 million. The team consists of engineers, scientists and technicians for their skills, elected their creativity and their ability to listen to customer needs. They are specialized in applications related to industrial automation, mechanics, electricity, microtechnology, computer science and robotics and multi-disciplinary. More than 200 systems summer developed and used in the world in the areas around the clock , medical , automotive and railway .
Despite the difficult economic situation, QMT in 2009. The new version is stepping up its development strategy QMT Vision Inspector vision was presented in April, it has more power and features for the medical industry. : In the 2009 EPHJ QMT is its new optical metrology and control without contact to the watch industry to present the WatchProjector . At the same event, the company VOH the Wheel Test vision and Daril present the company is present QMTInspect-C , two devices with the platform developed QMT Vision Inspector .