{"id":959,"date":"2017-01-13T10:36:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T08:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.dresden-magazin.com\/uncategorized\/robotron-eine-dresdner-erfolgsgeschichte\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T11:50:11","slug":"robotron-a-dresden-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresden-magazin.com\/en\/science-business\/robotron-a-dresden-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A foundling comes of age<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heinemann had the necessary self-belief because he had been working at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotron.eu\/webportal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robotron<\/a>&nbsp;since the late 1960s. He and his colleagues used to develop databases and analyse the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.dresden-magazin.com\/en\/knowledge-economy\/tu-dresden-where-scientists-feel-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">technical advances<\/a>&nbsp;made by the West. \u201cWe were convinced that our own developments were better than anything on the market,\u201d he says. \u201cWe knew what everyone else was doing inside out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He and eight colleagues entered into joint ownership of the new Robotron in 1990. They initially had 28 employees. Today, the workforce has increased to 480, and the boss still knows all of them by name. So far, Robotron has focused on the creation of databases as well as the evaluation and administration of large amounts of data. Clients include Vattenfall, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.dresden-magazin.com\/en\/culture\/dresden-state-art-collections-marion-ackermann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dresden State Art Collections<\/a>, the Saxony police, more than half of the local government authorities in Saxony and even the public utilities in Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heinemann has an explanation for this ongoing success story: \u201cWe have always financed expansion from our own resources without taking on loans. We\u2019ve always grown only to the extent that we could cope with it, and we\u2019ve only taken on as many trainees as we could eventually offer permanent employment to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He considers it important to treat staff well. In order to retain the services of skilled IT people, he offers them more than just an attractive salary. On the company premises there is a climbing wall and a volleyball pitch. Heinemann also arranges parties for his staff at Christmas and on the anniversary of the company\u2019s spin-off. Robotron is now run by Heinemann\u2019s sons. In 2015, the entrepreneurs purchased a villa with its own garden to provide cr\u00e8che facilities for the children of staff with young families. They called it \u2018Robolino\u2019, and three full-time child carers look after the kids. Heinemann senior, however, still oversees those vital organs of a thriving company, finance and staffing. Retirement? The only future scenario that he doesn\u2019t waste time thinking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foundling comes of age Heinemann had the necessary self-belief because he had been working at&nbsp;Robotron&nbsp;since the late 1960s. 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