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Accelerate time to market for your connected device

Accelerate and safeguard your journey from business case to production-ready connected device with the help of our strategists, engineers, and ecosystem partners.

Cut costs & complexity with connected device & medical device engineering & consulting

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Bringing a connected device, hardware product, or medical device to market is fraught with complexity – from ensuring feasibility, scalability, and user value, to complying with strict safety and security standards and minimising costs, waste, and environmental impact.

Together with our partners, our connected device consultants and engineers are here to help you navigate rising complexity and turn opportunities into tangible business value.

Integrating strategy, experience design, software and hardware engineering, and tech infrastructure, our multidisciplinary teams help you craft breakthrough products that deliver transformative impact.

Ideate, build, and scale your connected device with our holistic support

Accelerate time to value with the help of our multidisciplinary expertise. We specialise in embedded software, firmware, electronics, mechanics, optics, design, engineering, system architecture, regulatory compliance, and sustainability.
  • Mechanics

    Our mechanics experts tailor products to serve defined business and user needs. We verify robustness and quality while transitioning to series production – through iterative design and prototyping, by evaluating manufacturing technologies, and by conducting simulations and testing.

    Our infrastructure – spanning prototype workshops, makerspace, climate chambers, and mechanical stress test equipment – is designed to optimise for speed and quality.

    Discover how we developed a fully functional prototype of a smart connected greenhouse in just one week.

  • Electronics

    Transform your ideas into custom electronic hardware. Our electrical engineers help you design futureproof, manufacturing-ready, compliant devices, with state-of-the-art technologies.

    From analogue sensing and high-speed processing to CPU and FPGA solutions, as well as wired and wireless communication interfaces, our engineers assess feasibility quickly and commit to the highest quality standards. They leverage our in-house PCB design capabilities, SMT prototyping infrastructure, EMC lab, and climate chambers.

    Accelerate time-to-market with our rapid electronic prototyping approach.

  • Embedded software

    Harness our expertise in embedded software engineering – from low-level bare-metal systems to complex embedded Linux platforms. We specialise in real-time applications, edge AI, IoT integration, and optimising performance across hardware architectures. Our solutions are designed for scalability, security, and efficiency, empowering next-generation connected devices.

    Discover how we supported Konux to realise an IoT-powered predictive maintenance solution.

  • Optics

    Realise the smart devices of tomorrow with customised optical solutions. Our teams can help you develop multi-lens and lightguide systems for imaging, 3D scanning, efficient lighting and advanced illumination systems, contact-free sensing technologies and light-based materials processing or medical treatment instruments. We are experienced in developing custom-tailored data processing algorithms that account for the underlying physical phenomena as well as in developing the necessary production tools and test systems that assure quality and efficiency in a series production.

    Discover more in our blog 'The Dev Exchange'
  • Industrial design

    Apply user-centred design to ensure a seamless customer experience, providing a superior brand experience across all your hardware and software products. With extensive experience in both physical and digital product development, we can unite both worlds while enhancing their individual benefits.

    By ensuring that design is continuously integrated with engineering and business needs, we ensure the best possible outcome with a faster time-to-market.

    Get our take on how to apply AI in product development.

  • Quality in production

    Optimise product quality by harnessing our expertise in measurement automation, systems engineering, and software development. We can help you optimise for quality from development to production – from the POC stage, through development and the production line.

    Our teams handle all quality aspects – everything from test management and production KPIs to working in regulated environments.

    Discover our CUTISS case study
  • Safety, regulatory & QMS

    Our experienced regulatory affairs and quality management specialists support our customers in navigating a challenging and continuously changing regulatory landscape. We work together with our customers to agree on the best regulatory strategy for the product. Depending on the agreed strategy, we collaborate with notified bodies, identify applicable standards and provide input to requirements engineering and risk management activities. Through our collaborative ISO 13485 certified Agile Delivery Method (ADM), we ensure an efficient development of fully compliant products.

    Our risk management experts support risk management activities throughout the development process and guide the development team in identifying system risks and defining risk control measures. We have experience in different risk management approaches, including ISO 14971 for medical device development.

    We support clients establish or improve ISO 13485 compliant quality management systems and provide training and auditing services to ensure the compliance and effectiveness of your QMS.

  • Systems engineering

    Our systems engineers always keep the big picture in mind, consistently focused on identifying the best possible solution to fulfil your needs. Requirements engineering and system architecture activities provide a structured approach to product development and support collaboration and communication within the project.  

    Through workshops and interviews we work with you to understand and translate your business and user needs into consistent customer requirements, laying the foundations for product verification.  We then focus on turning requirements into the optimal system architecture and design.  Working closely with our safety and regulatory colleagues, we ensure that identified risk measures are implemented, and that products are designed in compliance with the applicable regulatory and legal guidelines.

  • Design for sustainability

    Our goal is to design, build, and operate innovative products that contribute to a circular economy. Utilising our expertise in lifecycle assessment (LCA), we evaluate the environmental impact of products throughout their lifecycle, focusing on reducing CO2-eq. emissions and minimising the product carbon footprint (PCF).

    By leveraging circular and eco-design principles, and emphasising recycled materials, we enhance efficiency and eco-effectivity at every stage of product development, driving progress toward a more sustainable future. 

    Discover our Bystronic case study
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Enhance your hardware development lifecycle with AI

Zühlke's Cybernetic Delivery Platform (CDP) empowers your team to streamline design, prototyping, and testing processes, leading to up to 50% enterprise productivity gains and improved product quality.

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How to ideate and engineer profitable circular products

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The connected devices & medical products making an impact

Learn how leading companies are reinventing their development journey to realise innovative devices, maximise value, and unlock the potential of new technologies.

CUTISS: New hope for burn victims and skin surgery patients

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Hardware engineering services

Accelerate the pathway from business case to production-ready connected device. Our holistic connected device consulting and hardware engineering services validate & streamline every step of your product lifecycle – from product discovery & experience design to market-ready product.

Smart connected solutions

Establish the data strategy, platform, and culture you need to maximise the opportunities of AI-enabled devices for you and your customers.

  • Make your device ‘smart’ and establish the right data platforms and culture for your business model and product vision.
  • Ensure your product meets the right cybersecurity and safety standards.
  • Ensure a robust but scalable cloud platform for your IoT devices.
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Device engineering

Design, develop, and manufacture connected devices with sustainability, security, quality, compliance, and value delivery at their heart. 

  • Turn your validated idea into a production-ready physical device.
  • Transform your existing product into a category leader.
  • Ensure sustainability is at the heart of product design and lifecycle.
  • Meet the relevant quality and compliance standards.
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Device consulting

Develop, modernise, or gain clarity around your systems architecture to provide a stable but flexible backbone for your device – and a platform for growth and innovation.

  • Minimise risks and reduce complexity when implementing new technologies and platform concepts across your hardware and software.
  • Assess all your options with a comprehensive architecture review.
  • Collaborate with architecture consultants to ensure a modern, scalable, and sustainable architecture.
  • Understand how to reduce hardware costs and optimise product lifecycle for sustainability.
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Product discovery

Accelerate product discovery with the help of experts in experience design, rapid prototyping, and product strategy.

  • Collaborate with experience design experts to ensure that continuous customer insight, research, and testing informs the product development journey.
  • Discover and deliver value, early and often, with rapid prototyping.
  • Design for feasibility.
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Explore our device & hardware innovation insights

Explore our latest research, insights, and perspectives on the most important trends and opportunities in the connected device space.

Software as a Medical Device: key considerations for SaMD success

AI in product development: revolution or risk?

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Sustainable product design: circular innovation is not about recycling

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Meet our device engineering and consulting experts

  • Matthias Gwerder, Zühlke

    Matthias Gwerder

    Head of DevicesLinkedIn Profile of Matthias Gwerder
  • Ronnie Bose

    Group Head DevicesLinkedIn Profile of Ronnie Bose
  • Robert Sorschag, Zühlke

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  • Brewster Barclay

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