contact : seleon@seleon.de
seleon - a young, successful and fast-growing business
With just four years to look back on, seleon is a relatively young company, merged in 2002 from two affiliated companies which had previously worked extremely well together.
1998 Incorporation of the scientific consulting group as consulting and software service provider .
1999 First software product with solus position on the world market.
2000 Removal to new premises, establishment of heptec hardware engineering in Dessau.
2001 Joint development of customized, comprehensive device solutions (hardware and software).
2002 ISO 9001:2000 certification of all corporate divisions, merger of both companies.
Today, seleon employs 25 people, mainly engineers and scientists.
Another aspect which guarantees the high quality standard of our work is the fact that we have financed our corporate build-up entirely from self-generated funds.
seleon's leading lights
Our management can look back on many years of industrial and scientific experience in software and hardware development as well as in production.
Excellence and competence combining at the top of seleon:
With their profound professional experience, Dr. Michael Lauk and Harald Genger, physicists, cover a wide range of competence areas and work glove in hand: Dr. Lauk with his scientific background and extensive know-how in clinical research, and Harald Genger with many years of experience in hardware engineering and production. Both enjoy intensive contacts with research institutions and clinical centers in Europe and the USA.
ISO 9001: 2000 certification
Product safety and quality requirements are particularly stringent in medical engineering. Our quality management guarantees consistently high quality levels. And our processes ensure smooth and professional cooperation.
For us, customer satisfaction has absolute priority, with all our processes aiming toward that single outstanding goal.
By introducing the QM system, we have created the necessary groundwork for the efficient organization of our fast-growing young company.
Our management is also regularly audited with X-ray precision, because we are permanently striving to improve our processes.
We aim to grow following our own standards – for the benefit of our customers and clients.
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We send you press releases and photos on request. And we will take the time for a personal meeting with you. To contact us, simply send us an email at seleon@seleon.de.
Our clients
include renowned companies in Europe and in the USA, e.g.
Exxon USA and Belgium
ViaSys Healthcare (subsidiary Jaeger, Germany, headquarters in California)
TA Instruments, Delaware USA
BASF, Germany
Bayer, Germany
Siemens, Deutschland
JP Morgan, New York, USA
Bohlin Instruments, Great Britain
Fischerwerke Artur Fischer, Germany
VLS Virtual Laser Systems, Germany
Ask for references from your industry.
Interdisciplinary team work
Our team of developers includes physicists, engineers from various specialist areas, and IT specialists, all with many years of experience interdisciplinary projects in life sciences. Our experienced team of product managers and sales engineers work closely with our customers.
The interdisciplinary nature of our team guarantees fast and smooth completion of your contract and ensures reliable, top quality and highly cost-effective services at all levels of product development.
If you can imagine working with us
send your job application papers to:
seleon gmbh
Bismarckallee 9
79098 Freiburg
Germany
We always have vacancies for trainees and graduate diploma students.
All-round solutions, components, software, special systems, consulting, concept development or prototypes. Our highly committed and qualified team of developers, currently with 18 engineers and scientists from a wide range of different fields, handles your assignment rapidly, pragmatically, with ultimate cost efficiency and at the highest quality level.
Implementing the latest technologies in market-oriented appliances fit for everyday use.
Through our broad-based experience in research and our thorough knowledge of the market in many areas of medical engineering, we keep the development of medical/technical devices and appliances at the highest level in terms of technology and clinical expertise. The needs of doctors and patients alike are the foremost concern in our concept development.
We take on the full range of all necessary tasks in appliance development, ranging from concept development via electronics, software, studies and tests right through to the production of prototypes and pilot series.
Software is more and more at the heart
of applications and appliances. Ever since we have recognized this development, software plays a major role at seleon. Irrespective of whether it is a server/client database or special algorithms on an embedded system that is involved- we are here to solve the task.
Languages/tools/techniques
C, C++, C#, FORTRAN, Corba, XML, COM/ATL, MFC, IDL, Java, Assembler, Visual Basic, ADA, Win32 API, Octave, Matlab, and others
Platforms/systems
All Windows systems, Linux, various Unix systems, different real-time systems and DSPs.
Databases
MySql, Btrieve, Sybase SQLAnywhere, Oracle
Custom-made hardware solutions
For us, hardware means more than just the development of electronic components and boards. Working closely with your product management and keeping a close eye on the market specifications, we integrate electronics, mechanical components and design.
Our team develops technically sophisticated solutions for you, either as components for your systems, as assemblies or as part of the device development. Typical examples are:
A good concept helps to save time and money in development
This is a statement that anyone can endorse who has ever been involved in R&D projects in larger teams. We see ourselves not only as extended workbench for our customers and as outsourcing partner, but as people with expertise and know-how who create significant added value for our customers, not least on the conceptual level.
Again, our services include the pursuit of a consistent patent strategy which we build up for our customers.
There are different definitions and uses of the term "prototypes". We will try at this point to give a more precise definition.
Rapid prototype – a hard and fast term?
Not with us! We expand this well-known term not only by making housing components at breakneck speed, but also the content – no matter if hardware or software.
So, if you are pondering whether you should postpone the presentation of your new product at the next trade fair - give us a call first.
Reducing development risks through preliminary studies with functional samples
It is difficult, particularly in medical engineering, to gauge the success of a new method simply by relying on a few results from physiological and clinical research. More often than not it makes good sense to test the functionality in study samples before moving to the expensive prototype development.
These functional samples, as we call them, we developed within the shortest possible space of time and - above all - cost efficiently. And, while we are at it, we also organize the accompanying study.
Allowing basic research
An idea has been born, but special equipment, not available on the market, is needed in order to investigate, to validate, examine - in short: to move ahead.
In spite of their special orientation, laboratory samples must be designed as variable in many aspects to give researchers and scientists the leeway they need.
The earlier, the better
Applications in medical engineering tend to go to largely closed markets where lobbies, institutionalized cost systems and opinion leaders call the tune. The early promotion of acceptance as well as early studies greatly help the market launch and save valuable time.
Accompanying a project in terms of concepts, which we always see as being driven by the market requirements, helps us to develop the strategic marketing under the aspect of one's own solus features and the competition. This is where we provide competent support.
Even at the earliest stages in development, we include users and opinion leaders. This will ensure that acceptance in the appropriate community is high and that the market will respond quicker once the development has been completed.
Successful studies are an indispensable element of every new application.
These not only include the requirements and specifications of the regulatory bodies world-wide, but also the fact that, even while the study is in progress, product management gains important information at an early point in time. What makes sense, what is superfluous, which items are handled easily by doctors and patients, where are the weaknesses? Successful products must find good answers to these questions and solve these issues.
We produce under the most favorable conditions in the new federal states of Germany with a highly trained and qualified team of specialist technicians and engineers. This allows us to build large capacities within the shortest possible time where others have to quit: in manpower.
Why not use this enormous advantage!
Our production facility works inline with the ISO 9001:2000 processes and ensures ultimate quality at competitive prices.
Affordable single items
Complex, tailor-made systems requiring massive engineering brainpower in production need not be unaffordable. Do you also have a product where each item delivered is specially custom-made? We help you to make your requirements affordable and to shorten lead times.
Everything from a single source.
The words of a top manager in the German industry, spoken during an interview a few weeks ago, are not only correct but, we believe, essential: "External development contracts will in future only be awarded to companies which can also take on production, at least at the initial stage".
Who, if not the developers themselves, could take on a pilot series production quicker, more reliably and better? We supply you with the first series of your new product rapidly and without any financial friction losses.
We produce smaller batches in our Dessau-based branch facility.
Reliably, fast, at the highest quality standards and with cost efficiency.
Products must be launched on the market at ever faster cycles: this also means that production tasks and development are more and more difficult to keep separate. The fact that a service provider, originally at home in development, now offers production is only too logical.
At the transition point from small batch production to volume production, many crucial questions emerge, some decisive for the deliverability of the product. We have a wealth of experience in this field, can advise you, and prepare a volume series for you with one of our partners and ultimately place the contract.
We rely both on resources in Germany and on well-established contacts in the Far East.
Where we come from
Over four years ago, we started to build up our business with consulting services. And consulting we still provide: at the highest level, with tangible results which are immediately open to implementation.
Questions of feasibility, approvals and registrations, regulatory affairs, scientific issues, questions on markets and potentials in medical engineering or on industrial property rights: We'd be pleased to share our skills and our many years of experience with you.
Last but not least
Excellent, well-made documentation is an element in the acceptance of your new product which should not be underrated. User-oriented documentation, taking account of the statutory standards and regulations, requires the commensurate technical knowledge.
We have engineers with many years of experience in this field, who are thoroughly familiar both with the technical aspects and the users.
Profound market knowledge and experience in clinical research
Our special skills in various scientific and technical fields and our interdisciplinary work guarantee innovative and reliable solutions. Our clients benefit from our expertise.
Staff and management of seleon are well-known names in the neurological research community.
The roots of seleon's predecessor organization, "the scientific consulting group", lie in neurological research. Associates of seleon have authored or co-authored many original studies in internationally renowned publications in various fields of neurology.
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Relying on our profound knowledge of the market, we have had plenty of opportunity to apply our know-how profitably for our clients' benefit.
Extensive experience in sleep medicine
We are thoroughly familiar with the technical, the physiological and the marketing aspects of sleep medicine. Our special expertise in this field is based on more than ten years of experience in various areas of sleep medicine. Members and management of seleon were both involved in many patents and publications in sleep medicine.
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A field in medical diagnostics growing in importance – we have the experts for you
The area where we are particularly experienced is in image processing and the image reconstruction of PET scanners. The seleon team generates image processing at the highest level of leading edge applications in image diagnostics.
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Acknowledged experts in data analysis and control algorithms
An area in which seleon has acquired an outstanding reputation world-wide is data analysis and the control of complex systems. The automation of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in many areas of medical engineering is no longer just a vision, but reality.
Improvements in respiration and sleep medicine as well as in neurology are just a few areas where we have successfully applied our expertise. We have also handled assignments in a wide variety of different applications.
Click here for more information on scientific publications by our members and management on the subject of data analysis: more information >>
Patents are part of it
Patents and patent management are of paramount importance in high-tech industries, especially for new developments. We ensure that your ideas and technologies developed with our help are well protected world-wide. We have over 10 years of experience in international patent management and work closely with renowned and experienced patent lawyers.
User-related development of devices and solutions in medical engineering
The field where we excel is in implementing and transferring the latest results and findings in scientific clinical research and related areas into marketable medical devices and systems fit for everyday use. With our wide-ranging experience in clinical research and our thorough knowledge of the market in many fields of medical engineering, we keep the development of medical engineering at the highest technical level.
For us, the needs of doctors and patients alike are important parameters which are reflected in our concept development.
Device development in gas analysis
We are experienced in the design of measurement methods and in the development of measuring systems for gas analysis, using methods such as infrared absorption (transmission method) and photo-acoustics, among others.
Our employees also have special skills in areas such as layered samples and measuring cell design to suppress cross-sensitivities.
Laser technology used more and more in medical engineering.
In the past, we have already used these methods in various applications, for instance in the control of devices and robots, or in interactive games technology. Today, our focus has shifted to medical engineering.
Our expertise in laser technology (laser diodes and actuating electronics) ranges from laser physics via laser safety (laser class) right through to the regulatory approval of lasers for medical use.
Our people have many years of experience in the development of devices for chemical analysis and measurements
for instance in gas chromatography and in thin-film chromatography.
Our know-how also includes the development of titration systems for the assay of water, chloride, ammoniac, sulfur and DOC/TOC (organic carbon), measured value acquisition systems, long-term monitoring systems and mobile measuring systems.
Our work covers the whole development spectrum from the development of the electronics to prototypes and final device design.
Seleon also offers a number of standard products:
These are currently three software products which you can acquire under license.
Seleon also licenses new applications and products from university research, taking them to market maturity.
NON-LREG
is one of our software products, constituting a regularization method for badly adjusted, inverse problems.
LSSH
We developed this software to appraise master graphs in rheology.
NON-LREG and LSSH are on offer in a graduated price system.
Individual introductory instructions included in the prices.
We also offer some special prices for non-commercial educational and research institutions (please ask for more information).
Cpeak Tremor Analysis Software
A world-wide unique software for analyzing human tremors, developed for clinical use and use in rehabilitation (distributed by Jaeger-Toennies GmbH).
Cpeak was one of our company's founding ideas and our very first product.
A network, ensuring quick access to well-tried and reliable partners when they are needed, is one of seleon's essential features.
Our research network
seleon cooperates in its innovation network closely with clinical and scientific research institutes in Europe and the USA.
Partner firms
In recurring device development assignments which are not part of our core business, we work with partner firms - unless, of course, the client has contract proposals of his own.
Science advisory council
When it comes to difficult and intricate tasks in research, it is very good to know that we can fall back any time on the competent advice of well-known scientists - quickly and without going through much red tape.
Excellent contacts with over 15 universities in Europe and the USA safeguard our excellent know-how status.
As a result, we are thoroughly familiar with the research community and can draw on expert advice for our clients. Our contacts are equally invaluable in our studies and tests,
e.g.:
Schaad & Salmonson, design bureau, Stockholm
Combining function and form: our Swedish partners are specialists in industrial design.
cemec GmbH, Nürnberg
cemec provides us with expertise and support in design and tool construction.
Seleon's science advisory council
This part of our work, certainly the most descriptive, is also the most difficult to present - for the simple reason that confidentiality is an absolute must and enjoys ultimate priority.
After consulting with our customers, we will be able to show you a few examples of our work. These sample projects are currently in preparation.
Thank you for your patience.
Contact > Wegbeschreibung Freiburg:
Where we are located:
Our headquarters in the tallest office building in Bismarckallee (18 levels) are located in a prominent architectural landmark. The entrance is about 20 yards to the right from the main station entrance.
By rail:
The office tower is located right above Freiburg's main station where you'll also find the rail timetables of Deutsche Bahn.
By car:
Coming from Basel or Frankfurt:
Take the A5 motorway exit "Freiburg Mitte".
After about 4 miles turn off the motorway feeder road and take the turn to the main station "Hauptbahnhof" (signposted).
You'll see the office tower right in front of you.
Coming from the Black Forest (B 31 Federal Road):
Stay on the B 31 until you see the sign "Hauptbahnhof". Turn off, and you'll reach the building after a few hundred yards. There is ample parking below the main station or in the underground parking area of the Concert Hall (Konzerthaus).
By plane:
Either from Frankfurt am Main by Intercity or ICE train to Freiburg (about 2 hours) or from Basel/Mulhouse airport by EuroAirBus shuttle bus which also stops at the main station a few yards from the office tower.
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Bismarckallee 9, 79098 Freiburg, Germany
Tel.: +49-761-7673000
Fax: +49-761-7673009
seleon@seleon.de
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Bismarckallee 9, 79098 Freiburg, Germany
Tel.: +49-761-7673000
Fax: +49-761-7673009
seleon@seleon.de
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Hochsträß 7
89584 Ehingen, Germany
Programming:
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Talstr. 70
79102 Freiburg, Germany
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Where we are located:
By rail:
Take tram (Line 3) or bus (Line 19) (approx. 10 minutes) from the station forecourt to tram/bus stop Rodebillestrasse, walk back about 50 yds, left into Brauereistrasse, left again after 500 yds.
By car:
Coming from Berlin/Leipzig: Motorway A9 to Dessau Ost (East), the follow B 186 Federal Road through the town, turn right into Brauereistrasse, turn left after about 500 yds.
Coming from Magdeburg: Motorway A14 to exit Bernburg, then follow B 185 Federal Road in the direction of Bernburg as far as Dessau. In Dessau, cross the intersection Mannheimer Strasse / Schwarzer Weg, turn left into Junkerstrasse (narrow cobble-stoned road), turn left at the end into Brauereistrasse, turn left again after about 400 yds.
By plane:
From Berlin by rail
From Leipzig by rail or airport shuttlebus
Planes (city hoppers) to Dessau airport, from there about 2 km (pick-up or taxi)
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