Art Fiber Systems GmbH (AFS) was founded in Ulm at the end of 2025 by
Dr. Viacheslav Artyushenko and Prof. Dr. Boris Mizaikoff to satisfy
fast-growing market demands for in-line process control. Process
Analytical Technologies (PAT) are needed for many processes in pharma,
biotech, food, chemical and petrochemical industries to enhance product
quality and sustainable yield. AFS can detect end-user process problems
with its Multi-Spectral Fiber (MSF) Systems and solve them with
customized AI-Sensors.
Fiber Spectroscopy is the best PAT method to define hidden problems in
molecular reactions, as robust fiber probes can reveal media composition
changes in real time and in situ (in-line) at any critical point of the
reactor. Process analysis with MSF-Systems helps AFS test processes
across a broad spectral range of 0.2–16 µm using UV, Vis, Near-Infrared
& Mid-InfraRed absorption, Raman & linear
scattering/reflection, fluorescence and other methods, and select the
key spectral features from one, two or more methods.
This selection enables AFS to simplify the PAT method for a specific
process and make it highly effective, and even automated.
The AFS mission is to first find problems in end-user chemical processes
using its Multi-Spectral Fiber Systems (MSF-Systems), providing
feasibility studies either at AFS facilities or at customer premises,
and then provide the development of simplified PAT solutions with
AI-based chemometric models for specific end-user processes suitable for
remote in-line process control.
AFS offers end-users the professional choice of optimal system configurations,
saving time, effort and budget when selecting and testing the most
suitable combination of spectrometers, probes, light sources and
detectors. AFS works with the best vendors of all these components,
combining them with optimized AI-based chemometrics into customized
solutions.
History
Dr. Viacheslav Artyushenko founded A.R.T. Photonics GmbH in Berlin in
1998 (later renamed art photonics – AP) to develop and produce fiber
components for the broad 0.22–16 µm spectral range
(www.artphotonics.com).
He sold AP to Nynomic AG in 2024 and handed over his CEO position to
Dr. Stefanie Foerster. In the same year, EPIC (European Photonics
Industry Consortium) selected Viacheslav Artyushenko for the EPIC
Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution and leadership in the
optical fiber industry.
At the end of 2025, the new independent company Art Fiber Systems GmbH
(AFS) was founded in Ulm by Dr. Artyushenko and Prof. Dr. Mizaikoff and
relocated in 2026 to Berlin-Adlershof, Germany’s largest science and
technology park. With a very different mission — to integrate AI-based
Spectral Fiber Systems dedicated to specific in-line process control —
AFS combines optimal components produced by various vendors, including
fiber probes and fiber sensors produced by Hellma Solutions,
art photonics, Avantes and others, and unites them in simplified Fiber
Systems or Sensors with specially customized AI-based chemometric
models. AFS’s mission is to make end-users happy with customized
solutions for their in-line process control.