Industrial AI: strategies, insights, and success factors



The industrial sector in the DACH region is under more pressure than ever before: volatile supply chains, rising costs, geopolitical shifts, and a constant stream of new technologies are challenging the competitiveness of organisations.

At the same time, shorter innovation cycles and evolving customer demands require faster product development, operational resilience, and technological adaptability.
To stay competitive, manufacturers must integrate sustainable digital practices deeply into their operations, leveraging AI, data, and connected systems to accelerate development, increase efficiency, and unlock new value creation models.
At Zühlke, we combine engineering excellence, industrial domain know-how, and digital strategy expertise to help you modernise efficiently – enabling profitable, resilient, and sustainable growth across your value chain.
Accelerate time to value and strengthen long-term competitiveness with Zühlke. We help you engineer speed, efficiency, and resilience into your operations by embedding scalable, cost-effective, and sustainable technologies at the core of your organisation. The result: faster product development, more flexible production, and stable performance, even under changing market conditions.
Accelerate time to value and develop effective strategies & innovations to create added value for you and your customers.
From idea to implementation, we drive incremental and radical innovation to close knowledge gaps, cut costs, increase efficiency, optimise product-market-fit, and adapt to change.
Accelerate innovation, reduce costs and increase the performance of smart, customer-centric devices and systems – with our multidisciplinary expertise in systems thinking, mechanics, electronics, value engineering, etc.
Realise smart connected devices through secure, scalable IIoT architectures, data analysis and cybersecurity, leading to greater efficiency, new data-based services and a compelling user experience.
Use artificial intelligence in a targeted manner to automate products and processes, accelerate innovation and secure sustainable competitive advantages.
With scalable, secure and ethically responsible AI implementation, we help you to put powerful models to productive use and realise measurable added value in your operations.
Accelerate transformation, ensure new revenue and create great customer experience, with user-focused digital products and turn-key applications.
With deep technical expertise from engineering to scaling, we craft competitive solutions that align with your strategic business goals and generate ongoing business value and competitive edge.
Turn your data into measurable value: with a clear data strategy, scalable architectures and advanced analytics, you can tap into untapped potential and lay the foundation for informed decisions.
We help you reduce complexity, make data reliably usable and increase operational excellence through transparent, robust insights.
Transform your products, operations, and business models to boost efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure long-term competitiveness.
With our expertise in sustainable engineering, circular business models, and regulatory compliance, we help you turn sustainability into a driver of innovation and growth with measurable success.
“Zühlke's role was pivotal. The team combined strong industry know-how, deep expertise in applied AI, and a user-centric approach to support our journey from strategy to implementation.” “Zühlke's role was pivotal. The team combined strong industry know-how, deep expertise in applied AI, and a user-centric approach to support our journey from strategy to implementation.”

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