1989
Foundation of Merkle & Partner by Dipl-Ing. (Graduate Engineer) Stefan Merkle after his graduation in aerospace engineering in Stuttgart.
1995
Expansion of the range of services by the sectors construction design and professional training.
1998
Establishment of the fluid mechanics department.
2005
Establishment of the product development department.
2008
Setting up of the Hamburg office.
Development of a computer cluster with 144 CPUs.
2009
Extension of business premises in Heidenheim.
2011
Merkle & Partner opens second branch in Ingolstadt.
Future
Company founder Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Merkle sees the future of the company increasingly in the integrated product development sector focussing on projects demanding simulations due to special requirements.
Medium-term objectives are new computational procedures as well as the integration of related fields such as the performance of tests for the determination of constitutive equations and for the verification of simulation models.