TS Komponenten 25th Anniversary Press Release, 2021

The Teninger CNC machine sales company TS-Components is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The company, founded in 1996 by Thomas Schmiderer (59), originally specialized in the sale of used machine tools and the manufacture of coolant pumps. Today, TS components is a system house for the large electronics and mechanical engineering company FANUC from Japan.

At the time of its founding, Schmiderer had already been working as a field sales manager for eleven years at a large regional machine tool dealer. In the meantime, he recognized the need for used machines to be accepted in part exchange by the customer in order to be able to sell new machines at all. "The biggest challenge for me back then was getting bank loans to buy the used but still expensive machines," says Thomas Schmiderer.

His claim is to put together tailor-made solutions for the customer consisting of a combination of machine and robot. “We have many years of experience in the sale and modification of CNC machines. We don't just sell a machine tool, we also advise our customers comprehensively on how to optimize their machining processes," says Schmiderer's performance promise. In the meantime, many well-known and renowned companies in the field of CNC milling are among the customers of TS components.

In 2004, Thomas Schmiderer founded Streamware, another company that focused on the manufacture and sale of coolant pumps. Since 2018, Streamware has belonged to the Japanese mechanical engineering company Nippon Oil Pump.

The latest development from the house of TS components is the compact robot cell Flex Roc. This automatically loads the machine with tools and workpieces. "Flex Roc is our answer to the ubiquitous shortage of skilled workers," explains Thomas Schmiderer. A single employee, who does not have to be a trained specialist, is able to operate the machine using integrated apps. And that with very little power consumption. The development, which costs several hundred thousand euros and uses self-programmed software, is selling like hot cakes with customers. “We can also carry out remote maintenance, network the cell with other systems and much more. That is Industry 4.0,” says Schmiderer.

A quarter of a century after the company was founded, Thomas Schmiderer is still working as a passionate inventor, developer and salesman in the service of his customers. "I am motivated by the daily contact with customers and the drive to create new things and solutions to complex requirements".

A future challenge is the procurement of machines and robots. Demand from Asia is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for European companies to procure the goods they need.