Our Offerings for Building Services

Manufacturers of building technology equipment need to differentiate themselves from the competition, retain customers and ensure business success, and all in a sustainable manner. Zühlke supports you in deploying new digital solutions and business models for focussing on the needs of users, installation companies and decision makers.

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  • Creating added value with business model innovation

    To stand out from the international competition, new players in the market and private labels, manufacturers of building technology need digital business models.

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  • Getting closer to decision makers and end customers

    Complex solutions are worth little if users and decision makers don’t accept them, so customer insights, user experience and usability are key to maximising impact.

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  • Leading interdisciplinary digital development projects to success

    The digitalisation of products and services requires a combination of domain knowledge and digital know-how. Companies must integrate established partners, newcomers, and a variety of systems while successfully navigating the transformation of existing processes or established ways of working.

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  • Ensuring data and cyber security for digital solutions

    Digital products and solutions operate at the interface between the private and public, which creates security vulnerabilities and exposes data to attack. Companies, users and data all need protection, as does the manufacturer’s brand image.

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Creating added value with business model innovation

We have the experience to develop a ‘digital innovation’ model, independently or together with your own teams. Our portfolio includes diverse workshop formats, the creation of digitalisation and data strategies, and conception of digital services.

This is how we help you expand your market position, set yourself apart from the competition, monetise existing know-how, and achieve success in new ecosystems.

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Getting closer to decision makers and end customers

With a neutral viewpoint, our customer and user-experience teams help manufacturers find solutions that focus on the end customer’s needs, using customer interviews and a methodology we have fine-tuned over countless successful projects.

This generates solutions that work, are intuitive to use and visually convincing, regardless of the medium – be it a website or portal, mobile app or external elements that interact with the customer’s screen. 

This is how we help you strike a chord with users and intermediaries alike.

Leading interdisciplinary digital development projects to success

We have been applying the principles of Agile development to software projects for years, and have successfully transferred this method to the development of devices (hardware, mechanics and electronics).

This puts us in a unique position to help you achieve your digitalisation goals. We can effectively develop and industrialise networked digital (IoT) products and services in an agile way up to the point of mass production, in compliance with certification and regulation requirements, exactly as your market demands. We can also help you identify suitable partners for manufacture.

In this way, we ensure you get future-proof software and devices to market on time – either independently or working together with your team. 

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Ensuring data and cyber security for digital solutions

Zühlke provides lasting cyber protection for both manufacturers and end users – with preventive threat modelling, architecture reviews, custom-made security concepts for new solutions, and robust new system architectures. With our rigorous, all-encompassing approach, we turn the security of your system into a unique selling point.

Rolf Hoepli, Director Business Development
Contact person for Switzerland

Rolf Höpli

Director Business Development

Rolf Höpli is Partner of the Zühlke Group. He is responsible for the business development in the Swiss industrial sector. Based on his educations in machine manufacturing and computer science he has always felt fascinated by the infinite possibilities of the combination of clever software and ingenious machines. Rolf Höpli focuses on the transformation of customer experience, interdisciplinary product innovation and monetization of data science use cases. He passes on his experience as a speaker (MEM congresses) and lecturer (FFHS & BFH).

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Andreas Pfleger
Contact person for Austria

Andreas Pfleger

Head of Market Unit Industry & Consumer Products

Andreas Pfleger combines his knowledge of industry and IT to ensure solution-oriented business development in the manufacturing and machinery sectors. He is Zühlke Austria’s Head of Industry and Consumer Products. Motivated by a passion for industrial digital transformation, he focuses his efforts on driving the potential of Austrian industry forward. As a senior project manager, he has managed national and international onsite, nearshore, and offshore software development projects in various sectors.

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Jens von der Brelie
Contact person for Germany

Jens von der Brelie

Head of Market Unit Industrial and Consumer Products

Jens von der Brelie has extensive experience in product development, product management and sales in the industrial sector. He has over 30 years experience in plant engineering, automation technology, building technologies, and the consumer goods industry. He joined Zuhlke in 2011, and currently leads our Industrial and Consumer Products division. He has a degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig where he specialised in data technology.

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Adam Cole
Contact person for United Kingdom

Adam Cole

Business Development Manager

Adam Cole is a business development executive who enjoys building partnerships, understanding partners’ biggest challenges, shaping their strategic vision and delivering value through Zuhlke’s many solution offerings. An honest, passionate team player who always puts the client first and is constantly looking for new, innovative ways to build meaningful solutions that make a real difference.  

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