An Eulogy on BRAUMAT and the BRAUMAT team

BRAUMAT,
you are and always will be half of my life.
I have done so many projects with you
and they have all been a success.
Satisfied customers, satisfied Siemens and me as well,
what could be better?
With you everything is so easy
that it's always a pleasure.
I can always rely on you,
your speed and stability are legendary!
Your structure is so ingenious
that it has been copied by so many competitors.
As a system to control many different factories,
we were the first on the moon.
But we got a little bit lost there for a while.
A good decision by the executives allowed us
to continue our success.
Innovating and enjoying each other drives us to big success.
Giving everything like a sports team
with leaders who motivate us.
Everyone is professionally competent and productive,
including the leaders, each in their own way.
Some take care of the market, money and marketing,
others improve the product innovative, that it fits the demand.
The sales figure is the feedback of the loop
which is adjusted on success.
We all know that we mainly need to satisfy the Braumat Users,
and to generate income for us.
All the rest is important as well like security and internals,
but to satisfy the Users and to generate income are and should be the highest priority.
We all have cost consciousness and efficiency in our hearts,
because we are all financial in the same boat.
If red financial figures exist for a longer time,
then death forever can take place.
We have experienced this live with the Software for printing machines.
This made us vigilant to always pay high attention on success and satisfied Clients!
Everyone is experienced and knows what to do,
and does it with great creativity, passion, efficiency and quality.
For a longer time we did not even have a leader of the group
but the business continued very well.
Most business and profit was with few but competent leaders! 
The leader know that programmers have much more experience,
so they focused on others topics to ensure success and reduce costs.
As with a football team, the "coaches" knew everyone very well
and provided a good mood and well-being.
Innovative and perfectionist rarely go together.
That's why few innovations came from supervisors and perfectionists.
But the ideas of innovative employees are valued and encouraged.
There is enough wisdom to listen to what experienced people say
about abstruse ideas, and then to drop them
and not just push them through in order to feel the power.
And they did not keep others and their innovations down,
in order to steal energy, feel competent and up,
although success competence is missing.
We all know that the customer and market only pays for performance,
that means results per time and nothing else.
Listening exactly what users needs and want
and deliver this flexibly, quickly and in high quality
is our proven key to success.
Then listen carefully to the reference users
and constantly improve the solutions.
In addition, we are regarded as the innovation artists,
many ideas have been adopted by others.
Keeping our finger on the pulse of the users of our system,
ensures great success and much happiness on all levels.
A deeply linked community,
which is also connected beyond work,
is an essential basis for the success.
Using synergies wherever possible,
that's the only way to be successful! 
Much has changed.
but why not remembering us
how we grew up and get successful?
Why not revive tried and tested recipes?
I am confident that we can do it,
because everyone will benefit from it!

Dear reader of these lines,
live out the joy,
by making BRAUMAT even more successful!
Through your specific impulse, feedback or ideas
via the known and new communication channels.
Thank you, we need your contribution!

Stefan Schranner