WEISS GmbH

WEISS GmbH is a family-owned German automation component manufacturer headquartered in Buchen (Odenwald), Baden-Württemberg, founded in 1967 by Dieter Weiss in Neckarweihingen near Ludwigsburg. The company has grown to approximately 700 employees across sales, service, and manufacturing locations spanning 49 countries globally.

WEISS is recognized as one of the world's leading system suppliers for the automotive industry, machine and plant manufacturing, life sciences, and electronics sectors. Its core product portfolio includes rotary indexing tables (TC, NC, NR, TR, TO, TW series), heavy-duty rotary indexing rings (CR series), linear transfer systems (LS Hybrid, LS ONE, LS 280, LS Link series), linear motor axes (HL, HN, HG series), pick-and-place modules (HP), lifting-rotating units (SH), gantry systems, precision systems, and machine base structures. The TC Rotary Indexing Table, available from 120 mm to 1,000 mm diameter with up to 80,000 N permissible axial force, is one of the company's flagship products, widely deployed on automotive assembly lines worldwide.

The company also provides WEISS Application Software (W.A.S. 2 COMPACT and W.A.S. 2 SCALABLE) enabling control of up to 32 axes from a single controller, as well as dedicated indexer controllers (EF2, EF3, TS005) for rotary indexing table applications. These mechatronic systems serve automotive body-in-white, battery and fuel cell assembly, electric motor production, semiconductor back-end processing, medical device assembly, pharmaceutical packaging, laboratory automation, and PCB manufacturing.

Production is concentrated at the Buchen headquarters, with international service and sales subsidiaries in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, India, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, among others, plus a dedicated North American entity (WEISS North America, Inc.). The company leverages virtual commissioning via simulation model data available through the Virtuos Twinstore platform and provides full CAD configuration via the myWeissWorld customer portal.