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around 1986	Gerd Anke starts seting up guitars by hand
Around 1988	First attempt to automate the setup and fret dress process, at first purely mechanically
1990	First computer program to control the mechanical devices
May 90	Gerd Anke and Michael Dubach founded the first company named PLEKTRON based in Anke's apartment in Berlin-Kreuzberg, one employee
1993	Company renamed plek, the first shop in Berlin-Neukölln servicing customer instruments with a functioning trial machine
1997	Registration as patented design
Jan 98	Founding of plek Gitarrentechnologie GmbH, 3 employees
1998/1999	International patent registration and development of a production-ready  plek basic prototype
2000	First presentation of the plek basic at the Frankfurt Music Fair
2000/2001	The first plek basic is taken into service outside of Berlin at Art of Sound, Cologne ; more shops follow (among others in Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Bavaria, Saarland, Berlin)
2001	The first plek basic is taken into action outside of Germany at Chandler Guitars, London, UK
2001	Presentation of the plek basic at the Summer NAMM in Nashville/TN, USA
2001	First plek basic sold (Glaser Instruments, Nashville/TN, USA)
2002	Founding of A+D Gitarrentechnologie GmbH, eight employees
2002/2003	Further work is done on the development from plek basic to plek pro
Dez 03	First use of the plek basic in guitar production (Heritage, Kalamazoo/MI, USA)
Jan 04	Introduction of the plek pro at the Winter NAMM in Anaheim/CA, USA
Feb 04	First plek pro sold (Glaser Instruments, Nashville/TN, USA)
2004/05	Development of the sts, a String Tension Simulator, for the plek pro
2005	First use of the plek pro/sts in guitar production (Gibson Custom Shop, Nashville/TN, USA)
2006	First plek pro/sts sold to the Asian market (Takamine, Japan)