Manufacturing: Driving Industry Digitalization
We bring modern software and AI expertise into your production environment, from smart factory to new digital business models. With us, digitalization in manufacturing becomes reality – intelligent, connected, and efficient.
Our Solutions for the Industrial Digital Transformation
As your partner for digitalization in manufacturing, we build data platforms, IoT solutions, and scalable software that increase efficiency, unlock operational insights, and create new digital revenue streams.
As a solutions provider, we understand your challenges as a manufacturing company
The manufacturing industry is undergoing a major transformation. We understand the challenges you face, based on our experience with numerous manufacturing projects. Let’s sit down, analyze your business case, and find the right solutions for you.
Jürgen Wurster
Head of Client Portfolio Manufacturing
The German industrial sector possesses a vast amount of expertise and data, which has remained largely untapped. To leverage both, you need solutions that fit your specific processes – not off-the-shelf software with superficial customization. Ultimately, success depends on whether this software will still be maintainable five years from now.
Let’s work together to solve your challenges!
Jürgen Wurster
Head of Client Portfolio Manufacturing
This is what we can do for you
Digital Solutions
We work with you to develop digital business models. From Equipment-as-a-Service and remote support to predictive maintenance, we help bring your hardware into the digital age.
- IoT platforms: Scalable solutions for device management and condition monitoring
- Customer portals & mobile apps: Consumer-grade UX for your end customers
- AI-based services: Predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and data-driven value-added services
- Equipment-as-a-Service: Business models and billing logic for recurring revenue
Transform your business from a component manufacturer to a digital solutions provider with recurring revenue instead of one-time sales.
Digital Solutions at Our Reference Customer, Fette Compacting
IoT Platform for 5,000+ Tablet Presses Worldwide
Live in just 4 months: A serverless IoT architecture on AWS enables real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and remote support for a global fleet of machines. New data-driven value-added services generate additional service revenue streams.
Connected Production
Using Industrial IoT, edge computing, and seamless system integration, we improve your overall equipment effectiveness and replace manual handovers with automated data flows.
- Edge Computing: Real-time data processing directly at the machine, without going through the cloud
- System Integration: Integration layers that connect the shop floor, MES, and ERP into a seamless data flow
- AI-powered Quality Assurance and Predictive Maintenance: From anomaly detection to predictive maintenance
- OT/IT Security by Design: Connecting existing machine fleets without creating new vulnerabilities
Our solution is vendor-neutral, compatible with your existing machine fleet and measurably effective within a few months.
Connected Manufacturing at Our Reference Customer, Heinz Glas
Real-Time Production Monitoring
Four systems combined: Live error detection and a management dashboard ensure full transparency and significantly reduce wastage and downtime.
Business Automation
Where standard software reaches its limits, we develop tailored solutions that enable AI-driven decisions and process automation.
- Customized solutions: From workflow engines and specialized planning tools to industry-specific solutions that no off-the-shelf product can provide
- Data platforms & middleware: Integration of SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and other systems into a seamless data flow
- AI and automation: Real-time reporting and automated workflows based on a clean data foundation
- Cloud migration: Transition from on-premises to hybrid cloud models, pragmatically and without vendor lock-in
- Security by design: Data security and access management as an integral part of the architectural design
You receive a single source of truth for all departments, serving as the foundation for decisions that are based on real data.
Business Automation at Our Reference Customer, d&b audiotechnik
Optimized Order Planning
Faster delivery, less effort: With a new order scheduling algorithm and a smart web solution, d&b audiotechnik plans orders more efficiently, reduces communication effort by 86%, and enables the sales team to quickly request delivery times.
AI-Engineering
We transform software development through AI-powered agentic engineering and digitize the entire product development lifecycle, from engineering and design to manufacturing handover. This takes your development teams' productivity to a new level, shortens your time to market, and creates a seamless digital thread.
- Agent-based development: Introducing AI agents for code generation, testing, reviews, and documentation – from strategy to empowering your teams
- Digital thread: Automating simulation workflows and integrating PLM, ERP, and MES systems into a seamless data chain
- Field data feedback: Loops that feed insights from operations directly back into development
- ALM toolchain: As an Atlassian and GitLab partner, we provide tooling and custom integrations from a single source
From requirements to field testing – end-to-end, automated, and seamless.
AI-Engineering at Our Reference Client, BlechCon
CAD-based Quotation Process Digitalization
Automated quotation generation directly from CAD uploads. 80% customer acceptance rate, lead times reduced from days to minutes. Fully integrated into the existing ERP landscape.
Your Partner for Successful Digitalization in Manufacturing
The manufacturing industry faces unique challenges when it comes to processes, systems, and data. Combining our expertise in software engineering, data platforms, AI, and industrial systems, we build solutions that create measurable business value.
- Strategy and Execution from One Team: At codecentric, our teams want to solve real problems the right way. We ask tough questions, contribute ideas, design solutions, and bring them to life. Software development is our passion, and with us, you get a team that takes responsibility for the entire process.
- Vendor-Neutral Technology Decisions: We are not tied to any software vendor or licensing model. We choose the technologies that best fit your business challenge.
- From Idea to Operations: Discovery, architecture, implementation, rollout, and enablement – ensuring your teams can continue independently after go-live.
- Software Excellence for Industrial Environments: CI/CD, automated testing, security by design, and AI-powered development practices adapted to the realities of industrial operations. For reliable, low-maintenance systems designed to withstand the long service life cycles typical in industrial applications.
- Scale Without Bureaucracy: Large enough for complex enterprise programs, small enough to remain pragmatic and agile. The best people will join your project, not simply the ones who are available.
20+
Years of Manufacturing Expertise
100+
Customers in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive, and Manufacturing
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Consultants in Action
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Projects in the Industry
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Networks & Partnerships
Ready for the next step toward Industry 4.0?
We help manufacturing companies turn digitalization initiatives into measurable business outcomes – from the first idea to productive operation.
Head of Client Portfolio Manufacturing
Jürgen Wurster
Head of Client Portfolio Manufacturing