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  • 1966: The company Josef Heim KG was founded by Josef Heim and produced data recorders for the airline industry.
  • 1980: Josef Heim received the Innovation Prize of the German Economy for the first PCM recorder with integrated error correction.
  • 1990: In order to expand its DATaRec® D-series (with predominantly digital signal sources) for the aerospace industry the DATaRec® A-series for the automobile industry (with ananalogue signal sources) is put on the market.
  • 1995: The modular concept of the DATaRec® A- and D-series led to a large selection of modules for signal processing, which can be arbitrarily swapped out with different data recording systems in a family of products.
  • 1996: The company HEIM KG is taken over by RACAL Electronics Plc. As a result the Racal-Heim Systems GmbH is established.
  •  1999: The DATaRec® A480 is put on the market with an analogue bandwidth of 640 kHz and up to 144 recording channels. For FTI applications the DATaRec® D20ix can process streams of data up to 20 Mbit/s.
  • 2002: The Thales HEIM Systems GmbH is taken over by IN-SNEC, a subsidiary of the French ZODIAC Group and renamed HEIM Systems GmbH. The data recorders HEIM DATaRec® 3 D200f and D5000 have a maximum data rate of 240 Mbit/s and are introduced to the public.
  • 2009: After a corporate restructuring within the ZODIAC Corporation, the ZODIAC Aerospace is born. The HEIM Systems GmbH is renamed as ZODIAC Data Systems GmbH. The DATaRec® 4 series is widely introduced into the market and is leading to system configurations with more than 1000 channels and data rates up to 1.7 Gbit/s.
  • 2010: In user tests, the newest member of the DATaRec® 4 series, the modular FTI System MDR, proves its usability on the market and the innovative designs of the ZODIAC Data Systems GmbH.


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