Your partner for spindle repairs and spindle service
Fast, flexible, reliable – these qualities have been ensuring our success in cooperation with customers from all over the world for almost 20 years now. During this time, we have grown together with you, have mastered many challenges and ensured measurable success in your business. And the journey is not over yet.
New technologies and digital contact points ensure that we will continue to work for your benefit in the future – with comprehensive services, always on the cutting edge.
Our team
“Where others stop, we get started”
For our work, this is true: where others stop, we get started. Often after failed repair attempts, we are the last point of contact for our customers. This is why it is a matter of finding unconventional solutions that do not conform to the book for quick spindle repairs on the market. The excellent analytical and technical skills of our core crew and the unique knowledge of the company's founder, Markus Kern, are combined with one goal: to offer the customer an innovative solution that exactly meets their individual needs. One that goes beyond what is usually feasible.
“Precision up to the micrometer range”
KERN employees have perfection in their blood and an eye for detail in the micrometer range. These are also required: only through the most precise work can we guarantee the long-term satisfaction of our customers – and that is the key to our success.
Our Story
The vision for spindle full-service consulting becomes a success story
The vision for spindle full-service consulting becomes a success story
Over 30 years of practical hand-crafting experience working with the spindle, as well as a deep knowledge of spindle technology and the symbiosis with the machine environment, ensure that the Managing Director and founder of the company, Markus Kern, can advise our customers with the highest level of skill and great passion. Kern, who is considered one of the pioneers of spindle full-service consulting, not only studied the matter for decades but – in cooperation with Swiss manufacturers and universities – was also instrumental in elaborating the spindle failure analysis.
As a young spindle technician, Markus Kern was eager to get the maximum performance potential out of each of his repaired spindles. After a further ten years of practical technical experience with spindle repairs, he was able to realize his long-standing vision, which – at that time an unknown concept that has now become established worldwide – was based on providing customers with support where it was previously missing: directly on site.
Back then, the topic of on-site spindle consulting was still in its infancy. Markus Kern was looking for a more holistic solution to adapt spindles more ideally to their operating conditions in the machine. Instead of simply fixing the spindle and recovering recurring failures, he wanted to detect the actual causes of the failure and thus put an end to constant spindle failures.
KERN customers can therefore rely on the highest level of experience in the market and depend on an important partner of international corporations.
Our principles
Progress drives us
Only continuous striving for improvement guarantees long-term success. In order to meet the constantly increasing demands in the spindle and machine environment, we are never content with the status quo, but we are always searching for better solutions for our customers.
Our goal: even faster and more efficient repairs and even more durable quality – to reduce the rate of machine failure at the customer’s to an absolute minimum.
Our technicians and managers are deeply committed to the problems of our customers and work together to develop solutions-oriented measures. In addition, our employees continuously expand their know-how in intensive training courses taught by technology experts – adapted to the ever-faster development of spindles and their increasing complexity (such as in motor technology).
Quality Management
Our efforts are worthwhile: in 2014 we received ISO 9001:2008 certification, which proves we have the highest quality standard in the industry. This makes us proud: the high quality of our services has always distinguished us from others – even in an international field.
A central component to securing this quality is our detailed documentation procedure for all repair work on the spindle. This is reported to the customer after all repair measures have been completed. This means that all steps and cost points on the spindle can be carried out in a highly transparent manner.
At the same time, our central data management system allows us to access the full history of each spindle at any time. This enables us to make evaluations of long-term failure reasons of the spindle, to advise our customers accordingly and to take into account improvement measures in future repairs.
Facts and figures
Others can say a lot, we can quantify a lot.
Here are our successes in numbers:
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Our way of working
Speed and flexibility
Two strategically placed repair centres in Europe and Asia and our tremendous experience working with spindles of all kinds and types enable us to react quickly to the most diverse needs of our customers in terms of repair, advice and delivery.
High responsibility and sustainability
Our responsibility is to treat our customers and employees, but also the natural resources we share, with respect. That's why we rely on machines that are as resource-efficient as possible – or even completely emission-free – to make the work environment more comfortable for our employees while making the flow of work more effective.
Excellent support and partnership
Close contact creates strategically integrated success groups. That is why we attach great importance to long-term and profound customer relationships that go far beyond those of pure suppliers. In such cooperations we get to know our customers; over time we know about their special needs. In this way, not only can we solve problems quickly, but we prevent them from arising at all.
Exclusive partners and suppliers
The spindle can only run properly if each individual part works smoothly. This is why we invest in the best suppliers. These industry experts are the prerequisite for the highest quality, which is incorporated into each spindle and makes it new and often even better than before the repair. They take over the production of precision assembly groups and individual spare parts for assembly in the spindle, restore the precise functionality of components and enable the short-term purchase of original parts.
100% independence
As an independent spindle service company, we guarantee 100% neutral, honest, transparent and fair customer advice.
International presence
We offer solutions made in Germany for customers all over the world. Locations in the heart of Europe and China, well-recorded processes and central contacts enable flexible, reliable and fast spindle repair and straightforward logistics. In addition, many of our customers benefit from the advantages of international cooperation and the exchange of knowledge across several branches.
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