“We are a small SME operating in a booming market. While it was still difficult to explain what we do and to find suitable customers back when we were founded twelve years ago, today the entire industrial sector is required to take an interest in the topics of digitisation and automation.

Through digitisation, we’ve removed the distance between the device, supplier and customer, helping companies minimise logistics costs and reduce their footprint.

In doing so, we have our finger firmly on the pulse of the times. But we are also benefitting today because we were already doing things digitally ten years ago.

Thanks to the support provided by Innosuisse, we have made a decisive step towards more efficient training and fairer assessment in the certification of software engineers. This not only helps our customers in times of a shortage of skilled workers – the collaboration with the research partners has also been very worthwhile for us as an SME. I am very grateful to Innosuisse. We now have great results, and the real beauty of it is that these results are ours. Even if they are not patents, we have a technology that is tailored to our needs.

As part of the project, we have developed a well-functioning prototype. As a small company, we would not be able to develop innovations like this on our own. What comes next will be extremely costly: we would now need several times the project costs before the product is perfectly integrated and can be industrialised. As a small SME, it is difficult to manage this part.

This makes the research partners all the more important for us: in Swiss Innovation Park, we have found the perfect partner who strives to respond to our needs, does not just stubbornly continue its research, but rather aims to create a feedback loop from the product to the company.

Our SME is constantly working on innovations. We help the Swiss economy to find sustainable ways forward and to work more efficiently. We don’t, to put it bluntly, just “blow something up”, sell it and keep on producing it. We once had the opportunity to do that, but decided to keep on innovating on a grand scale.

No matter what the digital future may look like, our services and innovations will continue to be needed in future, and we want to continue to act as the interface between the digital world and the real one. Because even a virtual space has to be linked to the real world at some point. We humans trust what’s real – that is, a machine that’s really turning and not just pretending.”

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