ARTIS ARTIS is the leading international company in the field of tool, process and machine condition monitoring and for the adaptive control of processes in metal machining.

ARTIS develops, manufactures and distributes hardware and software components for this sector. Artis was found in 1983 and is located in Bispingen-Behringen, approximately 50 km south of Hamburg, Germany. With a staff of about 50 employees, the ARTIS group achieved a turnover of more than € 7 million in 2007. With company-own subsidiaries in the USA and Italy as well as with agencies in all industrial nations, including China, Korea, Japan and Australia, ARTIS is represented in all important industrial regions throughout the world. The job of ARTIS systems is to optimize production processes to achieve quality assurance and cost reduction. The success of ARTIS is based on a small but effective development department of about 10 developers and further well-trained staff members, which are additionally supported by 3 strong external development service providers. ARTIS offers to the COMET consortium its expertise for research on industrial manufacturing robots.

During the last few years, ARTIS participated in various research projects, national founded such as LoeWe, Make-it or ENµA and international founded such as COMPRO and Lith-Pro. As a result of the project outcomes, ARTIS will take care of the commercialization of the KDMIR after the lifetime of the project.