Deep-tech AI provider shifts customization and integration to India

Over several years, the German deep-tech scale-up has developed a cloud platform for monitoring and optimising digital twins of injection moulding machines. The platform provides blueprints of all relevant, common injection moulding machines that mirror real data from the machines running at customer sites. Existing and new machines are fitted with an internet-connected read-out kit that transmits data in real time to the virtual machine park – the twins. This makes it possible to detect faults early, identify deviations and, above all, simulate measures to optimise processes.

The company’s main target customers are large injection moulding machine manufacturers, who can integrate the digital twin service “ex works” into a large number of machines. Adapting the software to each customer’s requirements and integrating it into their various system landscapes takes a lot of time and attention – which the core development team cannot spare, as the platform is continuously developed further and extended, for example to other machine categories.

As the company still works in “start-up mode”, formal onboarding and training elements are neither available nor needed. The CTO and lead developer, who interviewed and assembled the team personally, introduces them to the platform, software and tasks. While the first implementation projects are closely supported, the team soon handles all tasks independently and routinely, so only special cases and specific detail questions need to be clarified. The core team that built the platform can focus fully on developing it further.