INNOVATION
IS OUR DRIVING FORCE

Get to know IPS and shape the future of industrial production in plant operation with us.

IPS Team
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Office Foto Anne Friebel und Jonas Schulz

Our vision

WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE:

OUR TECHNOLOGY IN EVERY PRODUCTION PLANT.

We want to be the leading company for inline sensor technology and the process optimizer for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries.

Our mission

WHAT DRIVES US:

TURN PROCESS DATA TO VALUE.

For our customers we design the efficient production of tomorrow

QUALITY

INDIVIDUALITY

TRANSPARENCY

RAPIDITY

Our corporate values

HOW WE WORK:

We value the DIFFERENCE OF PEOPLE.

We deliver EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE.

We are driven by challenges – WE SHAPE THE FUTURE.

TRUST is the basis of our cooperation and we are strong as a team.

We COMMUNICATE – openly and honestly.

Get to know the people behind IPS

Your contact persons at IPS

Jonas Schulz

Dr.-Ing.
Jonas Schulz

Geschäftsführung

Anne Friebel

Dr.-Ing.
Anne Friebel

Sales & Marketing

Dominic Wirz

Dr.-Ing.
Dominic Wirz

Hardware

Robert Hesse

Dr.-Ing.
Robert Hesse

Software

Andreas Eiden

Dr.-Ing.
Andreas Eiden

Software

Jonas
01 / 05
Dr.-Ing. Jonas Schulz
Managing Director

My responsibilities include business development, reporting and overall responsibility for commercial management.

Good to know: Belongs to the rare species of people who do not yet own a car and use the bike for everything.
Anne
02 / 05
DR.-ING. ANNE FRIEBEL
SALES & MARKETING

My responsibilities include product testing and validation, market and customer analysis, and sales and marketing.

Good to know: German champion in 5-pin billiards.
Dominic
03 / 05
DR.-ING. DOMINIC WIRZ
HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT

My tasks include engineering, design, manufacturing as well as product testing.

Good to know: He got this far without even completing A-Levels. Maybe he will catch up on this after his PhD time...
Dominic Wirz
Robert
04 / 05
DR.-ING. ROBERT HESSE
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

I am responsible for image processing and analysis, extraction of particle shape and size distributions, and generation of synthetic data.

Good to know: Consists of 50% kidney beans.
Andreas
05 / 05
DR.-ING. ANDREAS EIDEN
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

My responsibility is the development of the software for the integration of the neural network, the modules, and their interfaces. I also organize the product development.

Good to know: Enthusiastic metalhead and festivalgoer
Jonas
Anne
Dominic
Robert
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Learn more about

The history of IPS

DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Start of the development of a sensor system for bubbles and sprays in collaboration with Robert Bosch GmbH

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APRIL 2025

SEED FINANCING

Securing seed financing to establish the business model

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DECEMBER 2024

COMMISSIONING

First successful commissioning of ARIMOS sensor technology in an industrial environment

AUGUST 2024

FREEDOM TO OPERATE

IPS signs transmission and licence agreements with RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

MARCH 2024

COMPANY FOUNDATION

Inline Process Solutions GmbH was officially founded in August 2023.

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AUGUST 2023

EXIST RESEARCH TRANSFER

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).

October 2022

ELABORATION OF BUSINESS IDEA

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

2021

PATENT GRANT OMOP

The European patent EP 3 067 685 B1 was granted.

2020

FIELD TRIALS IN INDUSTRY & RESEARCH

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

2018

PATENT APPLICATION OMOP

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

2016

TECHNICAL CENTER APPLICATION OMOP

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.

2013 - 2015

THE BASE OF IPS

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.

2010

Great thanks goes to

Our partners

Scientific Board

Hans-Jörg Bart

Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn.
Hans-Jörg Bart

Erik von Harbou

Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Erik von Harbou

Network partner

Funding projects

EXIST research grant funding phase 1
Development of industry-relevant MVPs for real-time monitoring of particle flows for crystallisation and spray processes, business development, IP transfer, foundation.

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Fluid dynamic optimization of the electrolytic production of green hydrogen
Development of an image-based inline sensor for use in large-scale electrolysers.

Development of image-based optical sensor technology for process optimization
Seed financing to expand the product portfolio, generate initial sales until the break-even point is reached and sustainably establish a viable business model.

VIVET – Association for Innovation in Process Engineering
VIVET develops technologies for fast and efficient process development and production in the chemical and biotechnological industry.

Turn process data to value

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