Our Story

Where YINK Comes From

We didn’t start as a software company.
We started from the shop floor.

YINK was built from real experience in the PPF industry —
working directly with film, tools, and daily installation challenges.

Before creating software, we were solving problems the hard way.
That’s exactly why YINK exists today.

Back then, most film cutting was done manually —
slow, difficult to standardize, and heavily dependent on experience.

We knew there had to be a better way.

Started from one small shop

Before YINK, it was just a small team working on real PPF jobs every day.

Turned experience into a system

We began building tools to solve our own problems —
and realized others needed the same solution.

Now used worldwide

Today, YINK supports thousands of businesses
across different countries and markets.

Our Story

2012
I 'm Wu, started in a small PPF shop, doing everything by hand.

Every piece of film was measured, cut, and adjusted manually. At first, it was slow and full of mistakes, but over time, something changed. As I worked on more cars, especially the same models again and again, I began to remember every curve, every edge.

For some familiar vehicles, I no longer needed to measure everything from scratch. I started pre-cutting parts based on experience, saving time and reducing errors.

Without realizing it, I was already building my own “data” — just not in a digital way yet.
2013
As the shop handled more cars, the number of repeated models increased.

I began to consciously record sizes and cutting habits for common vehicles. Each time a car came in, I would refine the previous measurements, making the next job faster and more precise.

Slowly, a collection of patterns started to take shape.

At that time, there were no scanners, no systems — everything came from hands-on work and repeated practice. But I could already see one thing clearly:

If cutting could be standardized, everything would become easier.
2014
Around 2014, I heard from a friend that in the U.S., there were already similar cutting software solutions.

That was the moment something clicked.

Instead of relying only on memory and manual work, why not turn all the accumulated data into a system? Something that could be reused, shared, and scaled.

So we started building our first version of the software, integrating the patterns we had collected over time.

In October 2014, YINK Software 1.0 was launched.

But the market wasn’t ready.

At that time, most shops were still used to manual cutting. Changing habits was much harder than building the product itself.
2018
We didn’t stop.

Version 2.0 came in 2016, with better structure and more data. Then in 2018, we released 3.0 and took a big step forward — building our own plotter factory to work together with the software.

This wasn’t just an upgrade. It was the beginning of a complete system:
software + machine + data.

At the same time, the market was starting to change.

More shops were looking for efficiency, and manual cutting was becoming harder to sustain. What once felt unnecessary was slowly becoming essential.
2019
As demand grew, YINK continued to evolve.

Versions 4.0, 5.0, and 5.5 were released one after another, each improving data coverage, cutting efficiency, and user experience.

More shops started adopting the system, not just because it was new — but because it solved real problems:

Saving time, reducing waste, and making operations easier to manage.

What we had been building for years was finally being understood by the market.
2022
More and more international clients initiative to find us, so in 2022 we set up an international design team, combined with our Chinese brand yingke, we internationalize the brand, Yink was born. Adapt the software language and functions to the global market, and recruit auto pattern scanners in 70+ countries around the world. Now there are more than 500 scanning teams around the world serving us. Once new models appear, the database will be updated at any time, so that our customers can Get the data at the first time and enhance the competitiveness of our customers.