The industrial sector is facing complex challenges: costs have to be reduced, sales secured and new ideas made real. Zühlke supports you in exploiting the full potential of digitalisation to create innovative, customer-centric solutions and services.
In ideation workshops, we develop and test your ideas using functional prototypes. Our agile, interdisciplinary teams of experts from the fields of electronics, mechanics, optics, software and usability help to build, produce and successfully launch your mass-market products.
Customer focus, cost optimisation and a short time to market ensure you can compete against the world’s best.
You benefit from our customer-centric consulting, coupled with deep implementation expertise and a practical approach. Automated condition monitoring and fleet management, optimised operating processes, predictive maintenance and new digital services are just a few use cases that can increase your efficiency and secure monetisation.
Together, we create the unique selling points that differentiate your products from those of your competitors.
Interdisciplinary teams use our proven value engineering approach to help you develop equipment, machines, associated disposables and production facilities more cost-effectively.
By focusing on value from the start, we reduce your production costs by up to 50 per cent.
As a full lifecycle partner, we provide you with vendor- and product-neutral advice. We create a smart blend of standard products and custom-made solutions tailored to your specific business needs. Thus, you avoid supplier dependency and loss of IP, while still benefiting from cost-effective standard solutions that enable rapid initial implementation.
This gives you maximum flexibility when it comes to systemic changes, data sovereignty and development costs.
Our holistic digitalisation strategy is built around interconnected, smart machine-learning solutions. Our solutions enable you to collect and apply the data required for Industry 4.0 use cases such as automation, boosting the efficiency of the production process, resource management, quality control and customer service.
We develop customised AI solutions and install best-in-class sensor technology – for edge-data acquisition that delivers more comprehensive feedback. By eliminating data blind spots, we pave the way for operational excellence.
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).
Gerald Brose is Director Business Development at the Zühlke Group. An Economics graduate, he is responsible for business development in Germany for the industrial sector with a focus on plant and mechanical engineering. Before joining Zühlke, he worked as a consultant and key account manager in IT outsourcing. In addition to the overarching theme of digitalisation, Gerald is currently focused on IP ownership in product innovation, monetisation of data science use cases, and customer experience.
Brewster Barclay has a long history developing and selling innovative software and hardware solutions in the electronics and Internet industries, including running a start-up for 6 years. He is dedicated to helping customers create innovative solutions in healthcare and has shown this outside of his Zühlke responsibilities in his frequent mentoring of e-health and medtech startups.
Andreas Pfleger is Head of Market Unit Industry & Consumer Products at Zühlke. After a view exiting years in the manufacturing area, he changed to the IT sector. As a senior project manager he was responsible for mainly sofware development projects. For more than 8 years he specialises in solution-orientated business development in manufacturing and the machine building industry. He has a passion for the industrial digital transformation.
