Turck Vilant Systems Oy
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | RFID systems |
| Founded 📆 | 2002 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Espoo, Finland |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Ville Kauppinen, Managing Director, Co-founder of Vilant Antti Virkkunen, Chairman of the Board, Co-founder |
| Products 📟 | Turck Vilant Visibility Manager, Turck Vilant Device Manager, Turck Vilant Client, Turck Vilant Engine |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 50 (2017) |
| 🌐 Website | www.turckvilant.com |
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Turck Vilant Systems Oy (formerly known as Vilant Systems Oy) is a privately held technology company headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
History[edit]
Vilant Systems was founded in 2002[1] by Antti Virkkunen and Ville Kauppinen. The company provides end-to-end RFID information systems for industrial customer having its focus especially in manufacturing and logistics. RFID installations provided by the company spread to over 1000 different sites in 38 countries.[2] A German family-owned company, Turck bought the majority of Vilant Systems shares in 2017 and since 2018 the company is known as Turck Vilant Systems.[3]
Growth[edit]
Vilant has been nominated as Finland's 3rd fastest growing young technology company in 2006 and Finland's 7th fastest growing technology company in 2008 by Deloitte Consulting. In 2011, Vilant ranked 18th on the same list with 5-year growth being 444%.[4][5]
Vilant has won the EMEA mobility innovations award by Motorola in 2006.[6]
Vilant Systems is co-founder and member or RFID Lab Finland. RFID Lab Finland is an industry association that brings together vendors and end users of RFID technology.[7]
In 2011, Vilant was selected as a Finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe award.[8]
Vilant has offices in Espoo, Finland, Gothenburg, Sweden, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Bern, Switzerland. In 2011, Vilant acquired Swisscom Auto-ID Services AG in Switzerland.
Turck, a German family-owned company acquired the majority of Vilant Systems shares in 2017, resulting also to a change in the company name and since 2018 the company is known as Turck Vilant Systems Oy.
Area of business[edit]
Vilant Systems provides information systems, that make use of Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID). The systems developed by Vilant exploit RFID technology in the monitoring of a corporate logistics processes. They enable the automation of movement transactions of transportation units in real time using RFID tags and RFID readers. Transportation units can be roller cages, containers, or different raw material units.[9]
Areas of application are:
- Industrial Supply Chain operations [10]
- Industrial Asset tracking [11]
- Personnel and vehicle tracking [12][13][14][15]
- Apparel retail automation [16][17]
Customers include ABB, Nokia, Sixt, Swiss Post and Helsinki City public transport / Helsinki Metro and Ahlsell
Key business partners are Microsoft, Confidex and Smartrac (formerly known as UPM RFID).
See also
References[edit]
- ↑ "Valtra automates material flows with RFID | Manufacturing & Logistics IT Magazine". www.logisticsit.com. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ↑ "Vilant founders and management".
- ↑ TURCK. "TURCK, Company News". www.turck.de. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
- ↑ "Deloitte Fast 50 Rising Stars 2006".
- ↑ "Deloitte Fast 50 2008".
- ↑ "Motorola Enterprise Mobility awards 2006".
- ↑ "RFID Lab Finland members".
- ↑ "Red Herring 2011 Europe Finalists".
- ↑ "Tekes article on Vilant Systems 21.12.2007". Archived from the original on 2008-02-02. Retrieved 2009-03-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "ABB Press release 4.4.2005" (PDF).
- ↑ "Tekes article on Vilant Systems 21.12.2007". Archived from the original on 2008-02-02. Retrieved 2009-03-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "RFID Journal Article 7.11.2007".
- ↑ "RFID monthly article 12-2008".
- ↑ "More RFID article 12.12.2008". Archived from the original on 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2009-03-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "RFID Nordic magazine 12-2007" (PDF).
- ↑ "RFID Journal Article 10.12.2007".
- ↑ "RFID Update Article 16.11.2007". Archived from the original on 2008-10-05. Retrieved 2009-03-17. Unknown parameter
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External links[edit]
Vilant Systems association memberships:
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