1969

Foundation of the IT start-up “Entwicklungsbüro Wulf Werum”

with 2 employees. The company is headquartered in Wulf Werum's residence

1975

5 employees

Workplace in the basement office

1979

At one stroke – staff increase to 10 employees

including Rolf Blumenthal, Erwin Kneuer, Klaus Meffert and Hans Windauer

1980

Hans-Peter Subel joins the company

1982

Foundation of

"Werum Datenverarbeitungssysteme GmbH" with 17 employees

1983

1st product

Development start for PAS-PLS (open process control system)

1985

First deployment of PAS-PLS

at the company Grace in Hamburg

1985

25 employees

and Santa Claus

1988

New company building

on Erbstorfer Landstraße - foundation stone for the Werum Campus in Lüneburg

1988

Development start for PAS-PLAN

production planning system

1990

Development start for PAS-X

and first deployment at Reemtsma in Hanover (Tobacco)

1990

Strategic decision

focus on the pharmaceutical industry

1990

50 employees

1991

Expansion

first offices outside Lüneburg: Wolfach (today Hausach) in Black Forest, Germany

1994

First PAS-X go-live

at Jenapharm in Weimar, Germany (Pharma)

1997

100 employees

1998

First PAS-X User Group Meeting

in Lüneburg

2000

Rüdiger Schlierenkämper joins the company

2000

Start of internationalization

US market entry - foundation of Werum American subsidiary

2000

First global MES contract: Novartis

2000

Boehringer Ingelheim: Contract for BioMES

Entry into biopharmaceutical active ingredient production market

2000

Foundation of the Cologne offices

today Sankt Augustin

2001

Werum becomes a private stock corporation

named Werum Software & Systems AG

2001

First regional PAS-X User Group Meeting

in the USA

2002

First participation in a major trade fair in the USA

Interphex USA

2002

Lüneburg names street

in honor of Wulf Werum

2002

200 employees

2005

Further major global MES framework agreement

Merck & Co.

2005

Inauguration of the first "Cube" building

on the Werum Campus in Lüneburg

2005

Start of support for Jugend forscht

Germany's best-known young talent competition

2005

250 employees

2006

Werum is one of the top 3 MES suppliers

for Pharma & Biotech

2007

Rüdiger Schlierenkämper becomes a member of the Exceutive Board

2007

Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award

Manufacturing Execution Systems

2007

300 employees

2008

Inauguration of two new buildings

with reception area in Lüneburg

2009

Advanced internationalization

subsidiaries in Japan, Singapore and France

2010

Market launch of PAS-X V3

2010

400 employees

2012

Start of support for the humanitarian aid organization German Doctors

2013

Foundation of an office in Switzerland

2014

500 employees

2014

Company splitting

Werum's Pharma MES business with 400 of the 500 employees becomes Werum IT Solutions GmbH and part of Körber Medipak Systems, the Pharma Systems business area of the international Körber technology group

2015

Regional office in Brazil

2016

Werum Asia

acquisition of Factorytalk’s MES business and foundation of Werum Asia as new Asia hub in Thailand

2016

Foundation of an office in China

2016

Asian Manufacturing Award

Best Pharma Solutions Provider

2017

Frost & Sullivan Global Technology Leadership Award

Industrial Automation Solutions in Pharma and Biotech

2017

Asian Manufacturing Award

Best Pharma Solutions Provider

2018

Foundation of a subsidiary in India

2018

APAC CIO Outlook Award

Top Pharma & Life Science Solution Provider

2018

20th PAS-X User Group Meeting in Lüneburg

2018

Werum hosts

European Körber Soccer Tournament

2018

Start of the internal initiative "Werum New Horizons"

2019

Asia-Pacific Bioprocessing Excellence Awards

Best Bioprocessing Software Supplier

2019

Start of digitization initiatives at Körber AG

2019

Development start

of the Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) business unit

2019

Jens Woehlbier joins the company as Managing Director

2019

Go Digital. Together.

21th PAS-X User Group Meeting with record attendance of 250 experts from pharma and biotech companies

2020

Business expansion in Ireland and UK

2020

COVID-19: We offer live consultation hours

for pharma and biotech companies

2020

Acquisition of Exputec

Renaming of data science product inCyght to PAS-X Savvy

2020

We become "One Körber"

Start of operations under the joint Körber brand. We are the Software competence within the Körber Pharma Business Area from now on. 

2020

Dr. Christoph Fink joins us as Chief Operating Officer

2021

Connext

First virtual pharma software summit with 900 registrants 

2021

Werum PAS-X MES named a Gartner Magic Quadrant MES Leader

2021

750 employees

2022

Renaming of the legal entity from Werum IT Solutions GmbH to Körber Pharma Software GmbH

March