Incometer Precision Measurement
About Us
Our Affiliate Company
Hommel-Etamic
Company History
| 1965 | Pietzsch Aktiengesellschaft of Ettlingen, Germany, was founded by Dr. Ludwig Pietzsch as an engineering and development company. |
| 1973 | Pietzsch is approached by the Goetze Company to engineer and develop a method
of measuring wear and shape distortion in engine bores. The Form
Measurement Division was born, as well as the Incometer product
line. |
| 1978 | PAT Equipment Corporation, Inc. was formed as a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary
of Pietzsch in order to better serve the international demands for their
products. |
| 1979 | Launch of the S series Incometer. |
| 1983 | Launch of the V series Incometer. |
| 1988 | The initial stock offering of Pietzsch was made as the company went public. |
| 1989 | Development of the first fully automatic inline measuring station for cylinder bore
form, surface finish, cross hatch pattern and crankshaft journal alignment. |
| 1992 | Launch of the SAM (semi-automatic measuring station). |
| 1993 | Launch of the P series production Incometer. |
| 1994 | Launch of the Topometer video inspection system with surface finish capabilities. |
| 1999 | Spin-off of Incometer division into PAT Gauge, Inc. as a separate entity. |
| 2002 | Launch of the new Windows-based software for cylinder bore analysis. |
| 2007 | Launch of the Windows XP version of INCOWIN software, with full scanning mode capabilities. |
| 2008 | Reintroduction of the GFM product line to the U.S. market. |
| 2009 | Launch of GFM Golf, a system for measuring clubface grooves to determine conformance with 2010 USGA standards. |
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