Great ideas stay young. The DCOS story so far

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The best companies in the world are run by people who mean business with their visions. The vision itself needn’t be so grand. An interest that’s been there since childhood. A determination to do what you really always wanted to do. Or a passion for something very specific.

And it all starts with an idea. The greatest idea of 2004 was to resign. Four colleagues came to the same conclusion. Mattias Andersson, Tomi Söderbacka, Johan Börjesson and Johan Andersson were friends at work, and they shared a passion for automation. This was a passion they only rarely would be able to endulge in. They wanted to change that.

– We had, and still have, a strong determination to make everyday work better for our customers by being innovative. Basically we’re a team of technicians with a vision. We’re simply convinced that things can be done a little smarter all the time, says Mattias Andersson, CEO.

They all knew that the daily work at printing houses could bec ome more efficient. Much more so. With this approach and many years of collected experience in the trade, they left their jobs behind and founded DCOS. They brought along their genuine interest in the printing industry and its challenges.

This was in 2004 in Kinna, a quiet town in west Sweden. Seven years have passed since then. It’s been seven years on efficiency’s service. It was evident from the start that there was a need for the specialist competence associated with DCOS. That need hasn’t diminished over the years. The company has grown by adding one or two persons annually, not too fast and not too slow. DCOS still isn’t a large company. Instead it’s a challenger, with great capacity. There are advantages for a printing house to be working with a smaller player like DCOS. The reason for this is the size in itself. DCOS is more on the same level as the typical customer. Being a smaller company where everybody knows each other, it’s easy to understand the customer’s situation. A trust arises that the forthcoming project will benefit from.

” Basically we’re a team of technicians with a vision. ”

Johan Börjesson, Founder

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This is DCOS

Swedish company DCOS works with innovative automation for printing houses. The typical client is a newspaper printer. Located in Kinna (pronounced Shinna) in southwest Sweden, DCOS offers products as well as services. The company has been successful ever since starting out in 2004 and has been dubbed a Gazelle and local Entrepreneur of the Year.

DCOS has a project-oriented organization. Experienced and fl exible teams of service engineers make sure the customers are always well taken care of. The company’s vision is to be a preferred partner on a global printing market. As a result the services and products of DCOS are user-friendly, sophisticated, effi cient, and reliable. In short, the focus is on helping printing houses optimize their productivity. DCOS has an offer of quite some depth. It comprises everything from more or less standardized products to customized, client-specifi c solutions, maintenance and support. The company is sometimes a subcontractor supplying drive and control systems to manufacturers of other printing equipment. On other occasions, DCOS sells its products and services directly to newspaper printers. The product portfolio of DCOS holds solutions for an optimized printing process. Among other things, the fi rm offers drive and control systems to watch over, control and rationalize the printing process. Well-functioning, smooth-running machines are vital to any printing house. A way of extending the life cycle of machines, and one that has proved to be successful, is Retrofi t, a service provided by DCOS. A retrofi t is about making the very most of the machinery. The service assists printers in fi nding out where in the process measures should be taken to render it more effi cient. To many printing houses, retrofi t is the ideal and most cost-effi cient way to secure the production. DCOS has global presence. The company has an excellent reputation in the industry and has an explicit aim to expand. DCOS is a Gazelle, ready to take the next leap.