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Kalkomat dashboard with price inquiry and preliminary costing entry points
Price inquiries overview with production cost and sales price per order
Purchased parts list of a costing with per-article prices
Costing result with a full cost breakdown down to the base price
Featured case
Manufacturing Intelligence · Kalkomat + ERP

From Excel exports to live cost transparency.

Challenge

The team knew their prices, but not their real costs — the numbers arrived in monthly Excel exports, weeks behind reality.

Solution

We connected Kalkomat to the ERP and production data they already had — no new systems, no double entry.

Result

Management now sees what every product, batch and order actually costs the moment it deviates from plan — not weeks later in a spreadsheet.

Live
Cost transparency
ERP
Fully integrated
Per order
Cost breakdown
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groGPT knowledge base interface answering a question about a scanned delivery note
Manufacturing Intelligence/Gropedia + LOM/AI

Knowledge scattered across PDFs — now answered in seconds.

Challenge: years of know-how lived in manuals, drawings and a few experienced heads — finding anything meant digging or asking around. Solution: a company knowledge base with local AI search, running entirely on their own server. Result: operators find any spec or instruction in seconds — without waiting for the one person who knows.

Seconds
To an answer
100%
On-premise
0
Data leaving site
Automated compact warehouse with stacker crane and tray shelves
Smart Automation/AKL Warehouse

Compact warehouse turned into a connected system.

Challenge: storage, production planning and ERP ran separately — the team spent their days coordinating by hand. Solution: an automated compact warehouse that connects machines, robots, tray tracking and the existing ERP into one system. Result: work orders sync themselves, and anyone can trace any tray — the coordination work simply disappeared.

100%
Tray traceability
Live
ERP sync
4
Operator modes
The Groschopp team with their autonomous mobile robot
Smart Automation/AMR

Internal transport without people — or floor markings.

Challenge: skilled staff spent hours every day pushing carts along the same routes instead of doing the work they were hired for. Solution: our own autonomous mobile robot that finds its way through the existing factory — no guide lines, no rebuilding. Result: the robot handles the routine transport runs, and people got their time back for real work.

100 kg
Payload
0
Guide lines
360°
Lidar sensing
Robot arms on the workbench during a pick-and-place teaching session
Smart Automation/Physical AI

Robot arms taught by demonstration, not programming.

Challenge: every new robot task meant weeks of programming — too slow and too expensive for products that keep changing. Solution: robots that learn by watching: an operator shows the task, the robot picks it up, and it’s tested in simulation before touching the line. Result: the people who know the work best now teach the robots — new tasks are up and running in a fraction of the time.

Teach
By demonstration
Sim
Validated first
Real
Hardware deploy
Fruit slicing machine with modernized touch-screen controls
Smart Upgrades/Fruit Slicing Machine

Modern interface and logic on a proven machine.

Challenge: the mechanics were still excellent, but the controls and interface made the machine frustrating to operate and hard to service. Solution: new control electronics and software — the proven mechanics stayed untouched. Result: the team kept the machine they trust and got controls that feel like a new one — after days of downtime, not months.

100%
Mechanics reused
New
UI & logic
Days
Of downtime
Row of refurbished winding machines on the shop floor, ready for delivery
Smart Upgrades/Winding Machine

Complete refurbishment instead of a new machine.

Challenge: the machine still did its job, but its electronics were end-of-life and spare parts impossible to find — every breakdown was a gamble. Solution: a complete refurbishment with new software and electrics, built around the existing machine. Result: years of life ahead, easy to service again — for a fraction of what a replacement would have cost.

Full
Refurbishment
New
Software & electrics
Years
Added lifetime
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