Milestones of our company
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2018
- Consulting for ship yards in Singapore, Middle-East and China
- Installation and Consulting in South Korea
- Completion of a Software project in Kuwait
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2017
- 3R signs cooperation agreement for the Korean market
- Software projects in the USA, South East Asia and the Middle East
- Creation of pipe shop concepts for customers in Russia, Singapore, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Iran
- Commissioning of two robotic welding machines in Singapore
- Installation of two pipe shops in the UAE (est. completion end of 2017)
- Software solution for a major German chemical enterprise
- Presentations and exhibition participation in Japan, the USA, the UAE, the UK, Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Malaysia
- The new Freeform Manager software now generally supports freeform bending of symmetrical profiles
- New PCF splitter with PCF and ASCII interface for automatic simulation on many machines
- Automatic generation of:
- CNC data
- Work sheets
- Simulation results
- Cutting lengths
- Extensions
- Flange handling
- Management of straight pipe pieces
- Automatic generation of:
- RoniKolli7-RAMP for fabrication control for simple bent pipe geometries
- RoniKolli7 supports database connectivity for vast bending projects
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2016
- March: 3R signs biggest pipe shop project in company history
- 5 software projects for pipe shop controlling in Kuwait, Malaysia, Brazil and Philippines
- Major project in south of Malaysia
- Cooperation with a bending machine manufacturer in the USA
- Software for truck manufacturers
- Development of JointCheck Web, a web based software solution for the management of welding joints in pipe spool fabrication
- Creation of a software concept for a major American steel company
- Installation and commissioning of a workshop for components for seawater desalination plants in Singapore, phase 1
- Presentations and exhibition participation in the USA, UAE, Singapore
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2015
- 3R starts the second pipe shop controlling in Brasil
- Stainless pipe shop in Singapore goes to phase 2
- Consulting for a major project in Dubai
- New manufacture area: Pipe shop for seawater desalination plants
- New project in south of Malaysia
- 2nd TIG/MAG auto welding machine in Singapore
- Project in Oman
- Project in Kuwait
- IHC project (Netherlands)
- Development of a spool positioner
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2014
- 11 rigs produced at the automated pipe shop KeppelFELS
- First project in Kuwait, 3R delivers TIG/MAG to Singapore
- Start of a pipe shop project for stainless steel pipes for KeppelFELS (Singapore), Completion of the first installation stage
- Planning of a pipe shop for special jetting line pipes for the offshore industry, Start of the first installation stage
- Start of the development of a Virtual Reality visualization in combination with a motion capture armband.
- Completion of various software projects in Germany, South East Asia and the Middle East
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2013
- Conversion of the software framework for pipe prefabrication at HDW (Kiel) to the 3R system
- Start of the biggest 3R pipe shop project to date (VARD/STX OSV Romania) (Turnkey)
- Opening of an office in Brazil
- Expansion of the range of tasks with a new planning project in Malaysia (riser for offshore drilling)
- Implementation of bending solutions already used in Germany for Daimler (Istanbul)
- Conversion of the entire software framework for pipe prefabrication to 3R at P+S shipyards (Stralsund)
- Installation of the 3R isometry and manufacturing solutions at JSL (Singapore)
- Real time simulation of the RONIKolli7 bending software (video sequence with fast forward and rewind) (Japan)
- Delivery of an automatic slip-on flange welding machine for pipes up to 14” (integration into an existing workshop concept)
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2012
- Second tube dispenser for KeppelFELS (Singapore)
- Software solution for IHC (Holland)
- Development of an innovative flange-welding machine, in cooperation with a leading German machine manufacturer
- Sale of an extensive software package to a major Brazilian shipyard
- Conversion of RONIKolli7 to Ribbons™GUI
- Planning of multiple turnkey projects world-wide - requirement analysis, tube shop layout, concept creation for optimized and automated fabrication
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2011
- Development of the Freeform-Manager - the world's first (and so far only) software for the calculation and simulation of true freeform bends (bends with variable radius)
- Commissioning of the KeppelFELS pipe shop - the first fully automated pipe shop in Singapore, and currently one of the most modern and efficient ones in South-East Asia
- Large scale extensions of the KeppelFELS software package, to include a variety of reports, status information and additional tools for fabrication planning and coordination
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2010
- Workshop project KeppelFELS (Turnkey)
- Development of a module for the creation of special tools - the data will be calculated based on the tube geometry
- Development of a system for freeform bending - tube data are calculated in this new system, and are simulated in RONIKolli7
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2009
- Participation at trade shows in China, Sweden, Turkey and North America, in order to open new markets
- Imrpovement of the RONIRONIKolli7 simulation core - The simulation is now significantly faster and features such as cycle time calculation and tube coils have been integrated
- Order to design an automated tube workshop for KeppelFELS
- Redesign of RONICAD - the new version, RONIIsoBuilder is adapted to the new Windows surface, and uses Microsoft’s Ribbon technology
- Complete redesign of RONIDraftboard for easy and mobile recording / creating of isometries
- Creation of a solution for tube bending processes for Evobus / Daimler
- Development of a software application to monitor coke ovens for Uhde GmbH (Part of ThyssenKrupp Technologies)
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2008
- RONIKolli7 has been translated into Japanese, Swedish, French, Russian, Spanish and Chinese
- Order for the design of an automated tube workshop for Keppel Shipyards (Singapore)
- Cooperation with a manufacturer of bending machines for the development of a data networking software
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2007
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RonPro is a database oriented tool offering convenient process tracing
- As basis for analyses and calculations it uses schematics and diagrams
- The current production status is determined using diagrams
- A production analysis can at any time be synchronized with coordination, creation of isometries and the pipe shop, all the way to quality inspection
- RonPro makes it possible to conduct a trans-schematic material analysis using different filter criteria
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RONIKolli7 released as a new version of our bending simulation RONIKolli
- The user can now create or edit machine models, design toolsets and manage material data more easily with a graphic user interface
- Beside these new features RONIKolli7 draws on all the experience we gained in many years of development and cooperation with our customers
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RonPro is a database oriented tool offering convenient process tracing
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2006
- RONIDraftboard is released as a mobile isometry capturing system without requiring a database connection
- First RONIKolli version with support for languages using Cyrillic alphabet set
- New sales partners in Sweden
- New features in our P&ID system RONIR2D realize universal change management, analyses of material and monitoring the manufacturing processes
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2005
- Simulation of a double-headed bending-machine with multiple tools
- Database-dependent P&ID solution RONIR2D is used successfully by different customers
- Several other workshop-control-units RAMP-module-combinations in operation
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2004
- Integration of inductive bending-machines in bending-simulation RONIKolli6
- Mobile recording of isometry-data by RONIPAD (PDA)
- Realtime 3D-manufacturing control
- Development of a software to manage jobs and material
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2003
- Our earliest product "Intelligent P&ID creating" provides complete data consistency from the design to the manufacturing, in combination with construction-, design- and workshop-controlling-modules
- Commissioning of a paperless control system for a shipyards large pipe workshop
- Processing order for an additional paperless control system
- Relocation of our development-offices to the Hamtec technology center in Hamm
- RONIKolli5 / Roba translated into 13 different language
- Movable 3D-view of the pipe systems with steel structure and status tracking with different colors
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2002
- Programming of three further customized workshop-control-units
- Calculation of breakthroughs inside a steel-model for pipeline-construction / cable lines and channels for air conditioning
- RONIKolli available in Czech and English language - Cost-investigation-software created for work process planning
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2001
- Export of 3D-Models in different formats
- Centre of gravity calculation of complete systems implemented in RONICAD
- Statistical analysis of material consumption / Investigation of workshop-usage in RAMP
- Automatic separation of complex pipe systems into simple bendable elements
- RONIKolli6 for double-headed bending machines / machines with rotating head or axes including a visual machine editor
- Detection of pressure loss in pipe systems
- Import / Export of RONICAD and RONIKolli-data by eMail
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2000
- Development of a new RONIKolli version for the latest bending machines
- Bending simulation for multiradius-bending machines operational
- Import of external 3D-structures from other systems
- RONIKolli available in 7 languages (German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Flemish)
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1999
- Availability of RAMP for Windows
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1998
- Starting the new Windows version of RONICAD in a German shipyard - starting STORE in plant building
- Usage of STORE in plant manufacturing
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1997
- Release of our bending simulation RONIKolli in Windows
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1995
- Redevelopment of our RONISoftware for WindowsNT
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1992
- RONICAD implemented for MS-DOS
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1990
- RONIKolli as an independent system for MS-DOS
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1985
- Development of a bending-collision-validation
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1982
- First RONISystem starts in a shipyard on a workstation