Benno Kern founded the KERN Electrical Technology Co., Ltd. (Predecessor of K-I-A ) to provide electrical control solutions, devices and services for local industry.
Michael Kern took over the company and renamed Kern Industrial Automation Co., devoted to development of software & hardware, then EA system design and CAD / CAE services.
K-I-A expanding to a full-line supplier (incl. manufacture) for industrial switchgear and control systems.
Bobby (Shanghai) Ltd. as the exclusive agent of Kern Industrie Automation Co. in China
Bobby (Shanghai) Ltd. and K-I-A with Steuler Anlagenbau (Germany) excuting the pickling line project at Baosteel No.5, Shanghai
Establishment of Bobby-Kern (Shanghai) Automation Ltd./ Project for 5000t GITI steel cord electroplating line
First export project to Brazil: High speed wire pickling line, equipped with EPLAN 5.7 platform and delivering bilingual circuit diagams in English / Chinese.
Manufacturing VFD cabinets for strip pickling line, Baosteel / Control system for wire pickling line, Vossloh Kunshan / Control system for dust collection, WESCAST Wuhan
Control system & equipt. for wire pickling line for Tata Steel, India /Control system of etching line 1st.phase, Hengtong/ Control system for acid regeneration, Baosteel Special Steel
EA system for 160,000t steel wire pickling line, Baowire / Control system and cabinets for food production line, HAAS Austria
Updated to E-PLAN P8 platform for design / Design & manufacture of E-container room, 4 sets exported to Bushan Steel in India equipped to acid regeneration plant by SMS
EA control systems for alu.caster, alu.plate saw & US detect. line, Aleris (Zhenjiang) / Engineering & manufacture of control system equipments for 300t RH furnace, Masteel / Shagang
Engineering & manufacture of explosion-proof ATEX control system cabinets for Petrochemical industry / E-container room exported to Japan, equipped to SMS strip pickling line
Engineering & manufacture of EA control systems equipment for 120t RH furnace / Control systems for wire rod pickling line in environmental type of stainless / special steel