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The medium sized service provider from Germany is interested in participating in EU research and development projects. Specifically, the company is looking to take part in projects that pave the way to a digital future and use digitalisation as a means towards climate neutrality. Its expertise is particularly suited for creating solutions that help achieve more with fewer resources and thus preparing the industry for a more circular economy and the green transition. Therefore, it is especially interested in the “Digital, Industry and Space” cluster of Horizon Europe and its so-called destinations 1, 3 and 4.

The company creates individual operating software with an innovative character. On behalf of well-known industrial companies, the company develops professional, interactive applications for apparatus, mechanical and plant engineering as well as for laboratory and medical technologies.

Overview of Technologies & services:
• Consulting & Needs Analysis
• Software Engineering
o Embedded software, mobile & industrial apps, requirements engineering
• User Interface Design
o User experience, usability engineering, mobile interaction
• Digitalization in manufacturing
o Digital business models
o Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, human-to-machine communication (H2M communication)
• Quality management and software test

As the driving force of real innovations the company combines innovative software engineering with excellent user interface design. This finely tuned combination of know-how is used to develop user experiences for different use cases: directly at the machine on an embedded device, as a mobile app including networking of devices for remote monitoring, or as a stationary desktop application.

The service provider can look back on more than 400 successfully developed projects since 2002. At the four German locations, innovative solutions, which can be easily implemented, are developed with the customers on an equal footing.

The company is looking for partners who are interested in technical support for their projects in the field of software engineering and user interface design from one source. The offer is aimed at partners who would apply the provider’s software to their mechanical / plant engineering processes, equipment, laboratories or medical technologies. The company is looking for a research cooperation agreement in order to join an existing consortium but is also willing to consider a technical cooperation agreement.

Advantages & innovations

The service provider does not only specialize in customised software solutions for embedded systems, desktop, and mobile applications, but also offers excellent user interface and User Experience (UX) design. It develops solutions for all technical products in the professional application environment. In this area it can draw on over 18 years of project experience. Numerous customer projects have received awards and prizes for particularly good usability and design, which has led to long-term project partnerships for follow-up projects or next-generation projects. Experience is also available in the field of collaborative research projects funded through the European Regional Development Fund and national means. An interdisciplinary team of more than 100 technology and design experts supports projects in a result-oriented, process-specific, and certified way, from the specification of a product idea to its conception and implementation, through to the product’s maintenance in the market.

Stage of development

Already on the market

Partner sought

The company would like to join an EU research and innovation project consortium. It is particularly interested in Horizon Europe but is also willing to consider other programmes. It is therefore looking for partners and coordinators that are currently involved in or thinking to form consortia. The German company aims for research or technical cooperation between associated partners. These can be pure research institutions, universities, or universities of applied sciences, but also small and medium-sized industrial partners (max. up to 500 employees). Such an agreement prioritizes the definition and achievement of common objectives. Potential partners should be willing to apply the provider’s software to their mechanical / plant engineering processes, equipment, laboratories or medical technologies. Cooperation is generally possible via remote communication and video conferencing.