History of IPS

Start of development of sensor technology for bubbles and sprays in collaboration with an international industrial group

Securing seed financing to establish the business model

First successful commissioning of sensor technology in an industrial environment

IPS signs transmission and licence agreements with RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

Inline Process Solutions GmbH was officially founded in August 2023.

The business idea convinced the jury, who agreed to a two-year sponsorship. The name for the company and product was born: Inline Process Solutions (IPS).

The increased demand for the sensor technology provided the impetus to develop the idea sketch into a fully-fledged business plan.

The European patent EP 3 067 685 B1 was granted.

The prototypes were continuously optimized and field tests in academic and industrial environments were successfully completed.

A European patent application has been filed for the one-sided insertion of the sensor technology.

The first step was a measurement setup with two-sided access, which was given the name Optical Multimode Online Probe (OMOP). It was tested in a wide variety of regimes. This was followed by a further development for larger devices and more flexibility with one-sided access.

It all began at the Chair of Process Engineering (Prof. H.-J. Bart) at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern with an attempt to determine droplet sizes in extraction columns in order to improve the modeling and design of this equipment.